Benjamin Tyler Milton

Tyler Milton joined the firm as a Partner in October 2010. He previously practiced condemnation law as an attorney for the Law Office of Joe H. Staley, Jr., P.C.  He has represented both condemnors and landowners, but since joining Dawson & Sodd, he has focused exclusively on the defense of property owners and their rights. He has successfully represented clients against condemning authorities at the local, county, and state levels involving various types of takings from residential, commercial, industrial, and rural properties, including takings for highway expansions, sanitary sewer lift stations, water transmission lines, natural gas transmission and gathering pipelines, and overhead electric transmission power lines.

Tyler received his undergraduate degree in 2003 from The College of William and Mary, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in History. During college, he spent his summers interning in Washington, D.C. at The White House and on Capitol Hill. In 2006, he earned his law degree from St. Mary’s University School of Law. During law school, Tyler clerked in the Counterterrorism Section of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., served as Associate Editor of the St. Mary’s Law Journal, and was selected to the Order of Barristers.

Tyler was admitted to practice in Texas in 2006. In addition to his law practice, he teaches eminent domain law as an Adjunct Professor at the SMU Dedman School of Law, he has volunteered as a mentor through the Mercy Street West Dallas mentoring program, tutored students at G.W. Carver Elementary in West Dallas, and has served on the fundraising committee, the Touchdown Club, for the Rise School of Dallas.

The Thomson Reuters service has recognized Tyler as a Rising Star in eminent domain from 2014 to 2017.