John G. Browning has been a litigator in Texas and Oklahoma for the past 35 years, including as a partner in several national law firms. Prior to returning to private practice, he served as a justice on Texas’ largest appellate court, the 5th District Court of Appeals in Dallas. Browning is also the distinguished jurist in residence and professor of law at Faulkner University’s Thomas Goode Jones School of Law in Montgomery, Alabama. He also serves as chair of the Institute for Law and Technology at The Center for American and International Law, as president Scribes—the American Society of Legal Writers, and as a trustee of both the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society and the Texas Appellate Hall of Fame.
Browning is the author of five law books, including The Lawyer’s Guide to Social Networking, the Social Media Litigation Practice Guide, and (with professor Jan Jacobowitz) Legal Ethics and Social Media: A Practitioner’s Handbook. He earned his bachelor’s degrees from Rutgers University and his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. His writing has received many awards, including 4 Burton Awards for Distinguished Achievement in Legal Writing, the DRI’s G. Duffield Smith Outstanding Publication of the Year Award, the Oklahoma Bar’s Maurice Merrill Golden Quill Award for Best Legal Article, the Texas Bar Foundation’s Outstanding Law Review Article Award, the Texas Bar College’s Franklin Jones Award for CLE Article of the Year, and the Houston Bar Foundation’s Outstanding Legal Article of the Year Award.
Browning has also been recognized with the President’s Certificate of Merit by the State Bar of Texas and the Presidential Citation by the Dallas Bar Association. In July 2022, his work was honored with the ABA Silver Gavel Award for Media and the Arts. In addition, he has been honored with lifetime achievement awards for his contributions in the areas of legal writing, legal ethics, professionalism, continuing legal education, and litigation.
Browning served as chair of the State Bar of Texas Taskforce for Responsible AI and the Law from July 2023 to June 2024. He is the author of multiple articles on artificial intelligence and its implications for the legal profession.
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John Browning talks about pitfalls seen from using social media and what lawyers can do to avoid them.
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