JIM WREN has more than 40 years of trial experience spanning a multitude of major personal injury, wrongful death, and business litigation jury trials. He currently serves as a lead trial lawyer with White, Carlson, Wren & Cook managing catastrophic injury and death cases in a variety of states. He is board-certified in Civil Trial Law by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and in both Personal Injury Trial Law and Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.
Jim has served as national president (2009-2011) of the National Board of Trial Advocacy, and as a founding chapter president (2003-2005) and again as current chapter president (2024-2025) with the American Board of Trial Advocacy (ABOTA). Until stepping away from the full-time tenured faculty of Baylor Law School to return to full-time trial practice in early 2025, he also served as the Leon Jaworski Chair of Practice & Procedure, the director of the Baylor Practice Court program, and co-director of the Baylor LL.M. in Litigation Management. He still teaches Advanced Trial Prep at Baylor Law as an adjunct professor.
Jim is an author or co-author of multiple books, articles, and CLE papers relating to civil litigation, including the latest edition of Proving Damages to the Jury co-authored with Laura Brown (James Publishing, San Francisco, 2025). He is a graduate of Trial Lawyers College and a current director of Litigation Mastery, an educational non-profit training program focused on helping plaintiff lawyers move to the next level in their litigation careers.
