Hunter Hillin, Attorney

Hunter Hillin is a native of Dallas, and attended Skyline High School in the Talented and Gifted Program before graduating summa cum laude in 1976. After high school, Hunter was offered scholarship opportunities at a number of universities across the country but chose to stay in Dallas at Southern Methodist University, where he attended as a National Alumni Scholar. After a brief hiatus, he transferred to The University of Texas at Dallas to finish his Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance, where he graduated cum laude.

Hunter attended Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, California. After completing his Juris Doctor, he returned to Texas where he began his legal career as a prosecutor for the City of Dallas, where he quickly amassed substantial trial experience. It was there that he learned that trial practice was in his blood. As an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Dallas, he also served as Legal Counsel to D/FW Airport Board. While at D/FW Airport, he handled a broad range of legal matters involving commercial transactions, real estate, taxation, and employment law. Virtually every aspect of municipal government crossed his desk. However, in the end it was the thrill of litigation that lured him back into the courtroom.

Hunter left the Airport Board to resume his trial practice in Corpus Christi, Texas with a legendary South Texas trial lawyer, Guy Allison. It was there that Hunter successfully took on his first industry giant, Toyota Motors, in a products liability case involving a rollover that killed a Navy fighter pilot. It was also there that he took on a large pharmaceutical company in a vaccine related injury case. In addition to representing plaintiffs in a host of personal injury and products liability cases, Hunter was given the opportunity to represent physicians in many medical liability cases, and to prosecute and defend a number of commercial litigation cases.

Since that time, Hunter has been a partner in a major downtown law firm in Dallas, has run a boutique firm in Dallas, and joined Mark in 2001 after retaining Mark to represent his family in litigation following the birth of his son. Hunter was asked to choose between his son and the company that insured the physicians he represented at the time. The choice was simple. Since joining Mark, he has championed the cause for children like his son, and expanded his practice to include other individuals and groups who deserve justice.

Both before and after joining Mark in 2001, Hunter has successfully prosecuted and defended claims involving many millions of dollars in judgments and settlements with industry giants such as Toyota, Uniroyal, Eli Lilly, American Home Products, Texas Health Resources, Christus Spohn Health System, and Baylor Health Care System, to name a few. In 2008, Hunter and Mark tried and obtained a record setting verdict in a highly contested birth injury case in Cincinnati, OH. He is currently representing a putative class of U.S. merchants in an antitrust case against a major credit card network.

Hunter is an invited lecturer for the pre-law/pre-med programs at the University of Texas at Dallas, and has lectured at CLE events across the State of Texas. When he is not at work, you can usually find Hunter spending time with his wife of 13 years, Amy, and his four kids, Jessica, Cody, Chris, and Greyson, or working on one project or another. Hunter is bilingual in Spanish and English, and studied Russian in college. He has a broad range of interests from sculpting, reading, travel, music, philosophy, Vinyasa and Bikram yoga, to building, riding and the art of motorcycle maintenance.