Austin litigator Phil Durst, who gave the gift of laughter to countless appellate lawyers and law students with his hilarious legal teaching, died Tuesday after battling health problems in recent months. He was 63.

Attorneys are describing the Deats Durst & Owen partner’s death as a devastating loss, not only because he was a brilliant attorney in employment and civil rights law, but also because he was a successful artist and genuinely kind man whose sense of humor made a lasting impression on law partners, friends, clients and the wider legal community.

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