Antonio X. Milton is an appellate lawyer originally hailing from Southwest Louisiana. Mr. Milton represents clients in state and federal trial and appellate courts. His representative experience includes Jones Act, RICO Act, breach of contract, professional responsibility, business tort, and personal injury cases on both sides of the “v.”
Prior to joining AZA, Mr. Milton clerked for the Hon. Carl E. Stewart of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and for the Hon. Nannette Jolivette Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He utilizes this experience working in judges’ chambers to benefit his clients through efficient and effective advocacy.
Mr. Milton graduated with honors from the Tulane University Law School, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of Volume 96 of the Tulane Law Review. During law school, Antonio’s interest in appellate law developed after he completed internships preparing appeals for individuals convicted by non-unanimous jury verdicts seeking post-conviction relief.
Antonio X. Milton is an appellate lawyer originally hailing from Southwest Louisiana. Mr. Milton represents clients in state and federal trial and appellate courts. His representative experience includes Jones Act, RICO Act, breach of contract, professional responsibility, business tort, and personal injury cases on both sides of the “v.”
Prior to joining AZA, Mr. Milton clerked for the Hon. Carl E. Stewart of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and for the Hon. Nannette Jolivette Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He utilizes this experience working in judges’ chambers to benefit his clients through efficient and effective advocacy.
Mr. Milton graduated with honors from the Tulane University Law School, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of Volume 96 of the Tulane Law Review. During law school, Antonio’s interest in appellate law developed after he completed internships preparing appeals for individuals convicted by non-unanimous jury verdicts seeking post-conviction relief.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
- Defeated an application for temporary injunction in a breach of non-compete contract case. Antonio gave portions of the opening and closing arguments, and he and the AZA team obtained a complete denial of the applicant’s requested relief.
- Mr. Milton obtained a reversal and remand of an administrative hearing order assessing costs against an indigent client under the Texas Health and Safety Code.
- Mr. Milton represented a group of medical practitioners in a civil RICO action following the dismissal of claims against the practice group on appeal in the Fifth Circuit.
- Mr. Milton successfully defended a six-figure personal injury verdict for a day laborer that sustained severe injuries at work on appeal in Texas’ Fourteenth Court of Appeals. The appeal included a novel issue on the sufficiency of evidence to prove past lost wages in a personal injury action.
- Mr. Milton represented the head of an athletic group in a defamation appeal involving Texas’s anti-SLAPP statute.
EDUCATION
Tulane University Law School, J.D., 2022
- Magna cum laude
- Order of the Coif
- Tulane Law Review, Vol. 96–Editor-in-Chief
- Tulane Law 3/3 Program
Tulane University, B.A., in Political Science, 2020
- Magna cum laude
- Dean’s List
- U.S. Department of State Gilman Scholar
ADMISSIONS
State Bar of Texas
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Northern District of Texas
Southern District of Texas
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- Defeated an application for temporary injunction in a breach of non-compete contract case. Antonio gave portions of the opening and closing arguments, and he and the AZA team obtained a complete denial of the applicant’s requested relief.
- Mr. Milton obtained a reversal and remand of an administrative hearing order assessing costs against an indigent client under the Texas Health and Safety Code.
- Mr. Milton represented a group of medical practitioners in a civil RICO action following the dismissal of claims against the practice group on appeal in the Fifth Circuit.
- Mr. Milton successfully defended a six-figure personal injury verdict for a day laborer that sustained severe injuries at work on appeal in Texas’ Fourteenth Court of Appeals. The appeal included a novel issue on the sufficiency of evidence to prove past lost wages in a personal injury action.
- Mr. Milton represented the head of an athletic group in a defamation appeal involving Texas’s anti-SLAPP statute.
Tulane University Law School, J.D., 2022
- Magna cum laude
- Order of the Coif
- Tulane Law Review, Vol. 96–Editor-in-Chief
- Tulane Law 3/3 Program
Tulane University, B.A., in Political Science, 2020
- Magna cum laude
- Dean’s List
- U.S. Department of State Gilman Scholar
State Bar of Texas
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Northern District of Texas
Southern District of Texas
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
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