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By Brooks Igo
Staff Writer for The Texas Lawbook
Winstead PC has added patent attorney Bart Starr as a shareholder in the firm’s Dallas office.
Starr said the opportunity to join Winstead was “kind of a no-brainer.”
“The opportunity to help grow Winstead’s IP litigation practice was simply too good to pass up,” he said. “Winstead offered me a chance to practice cutting-edge intellectual property litigation in a great city, work with outstanding lawyers who also happen to be very good people, and help our clients solve problems that affect their businesses, their employees, and their bottom line.”
Before joining Winstead, Starr practiced at Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City, Mo. for 13 years. He also was previously an engineer at Dallas-based Flowtronex International & Best Equipment.
When asked about the biggest legal challenges facing his clients today, Starr reminds himself of a passage from Abraham Lincoln’s Notes for a Law Lecture:
“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser—in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”
He says Lincoln’s sage is still true today.
“My job is to find out what my client defines as the ideal outcome or “win” and then do everything in my power to help make that happen, whether through informal settlement negotiations, formal mediation or arbitration, or in the courtroom,” he said.
Starr is also involved in pro bono work. During their last four years in Kansas City, Starr and his wife, Monica, established Sleepyhead Beds (www.sleepyheadbeds.org), a non-profit charitable organization that provides beds to kids who otherwise would sleep on the floor or sofa or would share a bed with several other siblings or parents. He said, thanks to his wife, the organization is continuing its work after their move to Dallas.
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