Dean Gresham
Managing Director
Dean Gresham is a Managing Director at Certum Group, where he leads the affirmative asset recovery and litigation buyout strategies in addition to assessing legal and financial risks across all company solutions.
EDUCATION
Dean graduated with a B.A. from Texas State University and a J.D., cum laude, from South Texas College of Law.
EXPERIENCE AND RECOGNITION
Before joining Certum Group, Dean was a trial lawyer for more than 20 years handling complex commercial, catastrophic injury, qui tam, and consumer class actions across the country. While practicing law, Dean litigated on both sides of the docket and developed a keen ability to analyze risk from both the plaintiff’s and defense’s unique perspectives.
In 2020, Dean was awarded the Elite Trial Lawyer of the Year award by the National Law Journal for his trailblazing work on a complicated wrongful adoption case. Dean is consistently chosen by his peers as one of the Best Lawyers in Dallas by D Magazine (2009-2020), a Texas Super Lawyer by Law & Politics magazine (2005–2020), one of the Top 100 attorneys in Texas by Super Lawyers (2017-2020), and one of Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Texas by The National Association of Trial Lawyers (2011-2020).
Dean is a member of the Dallas Bar Association’s Bench Bar Committee, the Judicial Committee, and serves on the board of the Business Litigation Group.
Articles by Dean Gresham
Litigation Finance Journal: An LFJ Conversation with Dean Gresham of Risk Settlements, April 22, 2022
How does the Risk Settlements platform work? What are the advantages for legal teams when using Risk Settlements? Risk Settlements is not a traditional litigation funder. At its simplest, we provide risk transfer solutions for parties, as well as their funders, facing...
When is it Time to Hold and Time to Fold?
The settle-or-litigate conundrum A victory, in complex litigation, is sometimes difficult to distinguish from a Pyrrhic victory. King Pyrrhus won the battle, but his army suffered such heavy and irreplaceable losses that he was forced to abandon his campaign...
Identifying Litigation Trends to Protect Your Brand
Corporate legal departments were once viewed as little more than an internal law firm. They handled legal problems in relative isolation, largely cut-off from the company’s commercial activities. Today, in-house legal teams are increasingly seen as an important and...
Law.com: As Transactions Accelerate, Litigation Buyout Insurance May Help Keep Companies ‘Deal Ready’
This article was originally published in the Corporate Counsel magazine on law.com. Mergers and acquisitions are expected to make a strong comeback in the months ahead, as COVID-19 vaccinations increase and business recovers from the pandemic-related economic...
The Impact of COVID-19 on Class Action Settlement Take Rates
By now, we have become accustomed to the significant changes that the Covid-19 pandemic has brought. Online shopping, Zoom conferences, facemasks and vaccination appointment competition are all part of “The New Normal.” And apparently, so is increased...
How Does Litigation Finance Dovetail with Corporate Strategy?
As the saying goes, nature abhors a vacuum. There’s a corporate version of that, too: Companies fear uncertainty. Even newer companies in embryonic industries (think Tesla and electric vehicles) that invite disruption to established markets prefer to follow business...