Biography of Julie E. Blend
Blend graduated magna cum laude with Honors in History from Wake Forest University. She graduated from Baylor University School of Law, cum laude, where she was Assistant Managing Editor of the Baylor Law Review and a member of the Order of Barristers.

Ms. Blend began her career as a litigation associate in the Houston law firm of Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Hill & LaBoon, L.L.P. where she handled banking litigation matters, as well as other complex commercial matters. In 1992, Julie joined the Dallas law firm of Hughes & Luce, L.L.P. as a litigation associate. While there, Ms. Blend handled a myriad of litigation matters, including litigation involving commercial management and leasing. Blend left in 2000 to accept a position at the Dallas law firm of Strasburger & Price, L.L.P., where she was a partner in the Business Litigation Section for 8 years. Ms. Blend joined Dealey, Zimmermann, Clark, Malouf & Blend, P.C. as a shareholder in 2011. Her practice includes commercial litigation with a concentration on the commercial real estate industry.

Over the course of her career, Blend has tried lawsuits to jury verdict in state and federal court, briefed and argued in appellate courts, and handled commercial litigation in multiple states. Blend received her AV rating by Martindale-Hubble in 2004. She is licensed to practice in the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas and in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a past-president of the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers and former director of the Dallas Bar Association, a Fellow of both the Dallas and Texas Bar Foundations, and a Founding Fellow of the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers Foundation. She has been a frequent speaker and author. Her published writings include “Using Expert Witnesses in Employment Litigation,” The University of Texas School of Law’s Review of Litigation (Winter 1998), “Preclusion of Scientific Evidence After Daubert” (co-author), 1 Shepard’s Expert and Scientific Evidence 673 (1994), “Controlling the Epidemic: The Texas AIDS Reporting Statute,” 41 Baylor Law Review 399 (1989), and “The Right to Vote and Reapportionment in the Texas Legislature,“ 41 Baylor Law Review 689 (1989).