Garett Godkin is an associate attorney focusing on civil litigation and commercial business matters. He has experience clerking for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas, has served as an intern for Judge Reed O’Connor in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, and has experience working with the General Counsel of a Fortune 100 company. He has worked on a variety of civil matters involving complex business, insurance, property, administrative, family, privacy, and probate litigation, and assisted counsel in advising clients on pre-litigation and other commercial business matters.

Practice Areas

• Business and Tort Litigation
• Commercial Transactions
• Construction
• Corporate
• Employment Law
• Franchise Law
• Real Estate Law

Education

• Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, Juris Doctor (2023)
  • Member of the SMU Law Review Association, Staff Editor
• Dallas Baptist University, M.A. in Global Leadership (magna cum laude, 2020)
• Dallas Baptist University, B.S. in Intercultural Studies (cum laude, 2020)
  • Member of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society

Licensed/Admitted to Practice

• State of Texas

Memberships

• State Bar of Texas
• Tarrant County Bar Association
• Tarrant County Young Lawyers Association

Recognitions

• Named a Pro Bono Honor Roll graduate, a recognition granted to law students that donated over 200 hours of public service during law school
• Named a 2022 Blask Fellow by the Southern District of Texas Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and the Blask Foundation, an award to select law students who displayed a commitment to public service and served with a federal agency in the Southern District of Texas
• Named Best Speaker in Jackson Walker’s annual 1L Moot Court Competition
• Awarded Dallas Baptist University’s Philosophy Honors Award in 2018