Biography
Jeff Gilmore is an associate in Jackson Walker’s Fort Worth office. Jeff represents a variety of clients, primarily focusing on those in the field of aerospace. Jeff also serves as the live TV host and color commentator for the world’s only private aircraft auction that is presented quarterly by his client, Assent Aeronautics.
While Jeff’s practice focuses on aerospace litigation and aircraft transactions, he has also represented banks, insurance companies, entrepreneurs, religious institutions, franchisors, railroads, and small businesses. Jeff has experience in complex product liability cases, multi-district royalty litigation, fiduciary litigation, probate matters, power-of-attorney disputes, trade secret litigation, and the arbitration of a business divorce.
Prior to his legal career, Jeff earned MVP honors on Stanford’s baseball team, where he graduated in just three years. Drafted by the Seattle Mariners as a right-handed pitcher out of Stanford after his junior year, Jeff pitched in the farm systems of the Mariners, the Blue Jays, and the Rockies. During each minor league off-season, Jeff worked in corporate finance as an analyst for Cisco Systems in the Bay Area.
Licensed to fly since age 18, Jeff owns and operates a Cessna 421 Golden Eagle that is based at Fort Worth Meacham Airport. Over his flying career, Jeff has amassed flight time in more than twenty different aircraft, ranging from a Piper Super Cub floatplane to a Citation CJ2 business jet. Jeff trains annually at both the AST simulator facility in Central Texas and alongside Southwest Airlines pilots at their Love Field simulator facility.
Education
B.A., Stanford University
J.D., University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
Bar Admissions
Texas, 2012
Court Admissions
United States District Court for the Northern, Western, and Eastern Districts of Texas
- Defense of aerospace manufacturers in personal injury and wrongful death cases
- Defense of airlines in personal injury actions
- Defense of oil and gas producers in royalty litigation
- Prosecution of oil and gas producers in title and trespass disputes
- Prosecution of tortious damages resulting from the fraudulent inducement of an oil and gas deal
- Prosecution of fiduciary litigation for beneficiaries
- Defense of financial institutions in fiduciary litigation
- Defense of religious institutions
- Defense of franchisor in dispute for contractual and tortious damages
- Defense of web-based businesses in a misappropriation of trade secret dispute
- Defense of title companies in real estate fraud disputes
- Prosecution of contractual and tortious damages resulting from a business divorce through arbitration
- Defense of railroad operators in personal injury and wrongful death cases
- Eminent domain counsel for pipeline projects crossing numerous county lines throughout Texas
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch (Woodward/White Inc.), 2022
- Texas Rising Star – Energy & Natural Resources, Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters, 2021-2022
- Texas Rising Star – Aviation & Aerospace, Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters, 2022
- “Top Attorneys” List – Aviation Category, 360 West Magazine, 2021
- Tarrant County’s Top Attorneys, Fort Worth Magazine, 2013-2021
- Fort Worth’s Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Champion, undefeated since 2019
- “Defending an Aviation Lawsuit” presented to the Texas Bar Association (December 2021)
- “Use of the Special Warranties in Texas Oil and Gas Transactions” presented to the Dallas Bar Association (January 2018)
- “Summary Judgment in Texas” presented to the Tarrant County Paralegal Association (August 2017)
- “The Texas Judicial System” presented to Bell Helicopter (July 2015)
- Tarrant County Bar Association
- Tarrant County Young Lawyers Association
- Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
- Twin Cessna Flyers
- University Little League Coach
- Volunteer Pilot for Pilots ‘n Paws