blake beckham

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Blake L. Beckham, co-founder of Beckham Portela, is an accomplished Texas business litigation attorney with one extraordinary and formidable distinction: Blake has never lost a jury trial. For over 30 years, Blake’s clients have benefited from his courtroom command and cutting-edge advocacy. Blake has been routinely selected to Texas Super Lawyers© (a company of Reuters) since 2005, and is a fellow of the Texas Bar Association.

Blake developed his instinctive leadership skills early in life as a student at the prestigious and competitive St. Mark’s School of Texas in Dallas, the alma mater to many notable Dallas and national business leaders. Blake earned his undergraduate degree in Accounting from Baylor University. After passing the Certified Public Accountant exam, Blake returned to Baylor and earned his Juris Doctorate in 1986.

Compassionate, religious, and Dallas community-minded, Blake is an active member at Watermark Church. In past church relationships, Blake has served in several capacities, including Sunday School teacher, committee member, and legal counsel. Blake serves as legal counsel to the non-profit charitable W. A. Criswell Foundation and donates generously to local charities. On many Thanksgiving days, Beckham has devotedly smoked 75 turkeys and served them to underprivileged Dallas families. On the home front, Beckham has taken pride in participating in the extracurricular activities of his three children, Blake Jr., Maddie, and Fisk. He has led Indian Guide tribes and Cub Scout troops, and has coached scores of basketball, baseball, and soccer teams.

As a fourth generation Texan, Blake comes from a long line of land-owning entrepreneurs and has been a champion of private property rights. Now that his children are grown, Blake is devoting his time as Special Litigation Counsel to Texans Against High Speed Rail to defeat the Bullet Train project. Texas Central Partners, a private company backed largely by Japanese interests, is attempting to misuse the power of eminent domain to strip property owners of their rights and scar the beautiful countryside of Texas with a train. Why should a project that is doomed to financial and operational failure become a tax burden for our citizens?

Education

Baylor University
Bachelor of Arts Accounting
Juris Doctorate, 1986

Admissions

State Bar of Texas
U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth

Affiliations

Dallas Bar Association
State Bar of Texas