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
- Successfully defended the dismissal of civil RICO claims seeking in excess of $16 million against a chiropractic care network in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. See Farmers Tex. County Mut. Ins. Co. v. 1st Choice Accident & Inj., L.L.C., 168 F.4th 271 (5th Cir. 2026).
- Obtained reversal of trial court’s dismissal of class action invasion of privacy and breach of fiduciary duty claims in the Missouri Court of Appeals. Ms. Adler and Mr. Milton obtained a rare win avoiding sovereign immunity and narrowing interpretations of immunity waivers of healthcare providers’ intentional data privacy breaches.
- 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.
- Represented an international faith-based organization in defense against long-tail personal injury claims where the plaintiff sought over $10 million in damages. Successfully resolved the matter out of court for six figures, a reduction of nearly 97% from the original demand.
- Prevailed in Rule 91a Motions to Dismiss tort claims filed against an entertainment company and obtained attorneys’ fee awards.
- Mr. Milton successfully defended summary judgment of a plaintiff’s commercial discrimination claims against a boutique hotelier in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
- 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 in Texas’s Third Court of Appeals.
- Mr. Milton successfully defended a six-figure personal injury verdict for a day laborer that sustained severe injuries at work on appeal in Texas’s 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 in Texas’s Fourteenth Court of Appeals, obtaining a dismissal of tort claims.
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
IN THE NEWS
- Successfully defended the dismissal of civil RICO claims seeking in excess of $16 million against a chiropractic care network in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. See Farmers Tex. County Mut. Ins. Co. v. 1st Choice Accident & Inj., L.L.C., 168 F.4th 271 (5th Cir. 2026).
- Obtained reversal of trial court’s dismissal of class action invasion of privacy and breach of fiduciary duty claims in the Missouri Court of Appeals. Ms. Adler and Mr. Milton obtained a rare win avoiding sovereign immunity and narrowing interpretations of immunity waivers of healthcare providers’ intentional data privacy breaches.
- 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.
- Represented an international faith-based organization in defense against long-tail personal injury claims where the plaintiff sought over $10 million in damages. Successfully resolved the matter out of court for six figures, a reduction of nearly 97% from the original demand.
- Prevailed in Rule 91a Motions to Dismiss tort claims filed against an entertainment company and obtained attorneys’ fee awards.
- Mr. Milton successfully defended summary judgment of a plaintiff’s commercial discrimination claims against a boutique hotelier in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
- 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 in Texas’s Third Court of Appeals.
- Mr. Milton successfully defended a six-figure personal injury verdict for a day laborer that sustained severe injuries at work on appeal in Texas’s 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 in Texas’s Fourteenth Court of Appeals, obtaining a dismissal of tort claims.
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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