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I love practicing personal injury law, and I am good at it. My focus is my ability to tell your story. This is what we're good at.. I teach other plaintiff lawyers in Texas how to present their clients' damages in the most effective way. I tend to look at cases visually and get to know each of my clients and their families in order to understand what the collision or the injury has done to their world. Often the contrast between pre-collision and post-collision is dramatic. If I can show that contrast, then the insurance companies realize that the case is quite real, and they realize that they now have an opportunity to help you. If they balk at that opportunity to help, then we give that opportunity to a jury.. The effectiveness of how we tell your story is what will make a jury empathize with what has happened to you; juries will help when they understand the harms you have suffered.. If you have been the victim of a drunk or reckless driver, if you have been hit by someone who was not looking out for your motorcycle, if you have been t-boned by someone not paying attention to the traffic light because a text was more important than your safety, I can and I will help you.

I like meeting and working with our creative inventor clients because I get to translate their creativity into formal language and make persuasive legal arguments to the Patent and Trademark Office. I always enjoy seeing those surprising relationships between things that might appear unrelated. I joined MWR Legal because I wanted to be a part of creating a new way to practice law. Impersonal law firms too often stifle growth and creativity. I enjoy practicing law in a way that fosters the personal and professional growth of both the attorneys and the clients. MWR Legal is not afraid to break the mold when it comes to serving its clients.

I help startups and small to medium sized businesses set themselves up for success. My clients get counsel on enacting best practices to avoid disputes and law suits, negotiating the best possible contracts -- even when dealing with a larger company or big corporate customer -- and navigating regulations and statutes to protect their assets and mission. In particular, I work with many small and family-owned construction subcontractors who enter large contracts with much larger general contractors and developers, and who often find themselves de-prioritized for payment.. When business relationships go south, I'm here to step in and help achieve a resolution that helps clients move upward and onward -- usually through negotiation, mediation, and a last resort, litigation. But my  goal is to maintain long-term relationships with my clients, supporting them along the way to make sure disputes are unlikely to happen at all. The best court case is the one you never have to file!. I take my role as counselor very seriously - my job is to support you in executing on your plans. And my metric for success is simple: If you can sleep a little better at night, I've done my job. Whether you are looking to lay a solid foundation for your business, making moves to protect what you've built, or dealing with an ongoing dispute, feel free to reach out.

I help companies comply with federal and state employment laws, assisting them with issues that arise from hiring to termination. I also defend employers when they are sued, focusing primarily on wage and hour class actions and employment discrimination and harassment lawsuits. I am licensed to practice in both Texas and California. I frequently speak regarding employment-related topics to clients and industry-groups, including for the Practising Law Institute and the Association of Corporate Counsel.

I have worked extensively as a prosecutor, criminal defense attorney, civil litigator, and mediator. I hold a Martindale-Hubbell peer-review rating of AV, the highest possible rating and I have been honored as a Super Lawyer by Texas Monthly every year since 2003, both as a criminal defense attorney and prosecutor.

I have practiced law in Texas since 1988.  Since 1993, my practice has specialized in working with physicians, nurses, physician assistants and pharmacists.  I enjoy representing health care professionals before their licensing agencies and the State Office of Administrative Hearings.  In my practice, I have worked with many healthcare professionals who suffer from chemical and/or mental impairment.  I am experienced in the area of Administrative Law and Health Law, and I always try to give personalized representation unique to my individual client's needs.. I also work as the Field Representative for the state wide impaired physician committee, sponsored by the Texas Osteopathic Medical Association.

I have narrowly focused my practice on defending those who have been accused and I work tirelessly to get you the best results possible. My clients needs are always at the forefront of my concerns and I tailor my strategy to meet the specific needs and priorities of each client.

I have focused my entire career on estate planning, probate and estate and trust administration. I enjoy working with individuals and families to create complete estate plans customized to their unique situations, whether that involves modest estates or larger estates that include estate and gift tax issues.  I value the trust that clients place in me and look forward to helping them achieve their goals.

I have experience in multiple areas of the law in both Texas and New Mexico. This has allowed me to work with a diverse group of clients on a variety of projects - from multi-million dollar commercial real estate deals to small office complex purchases representing buyers, sellers and lenders; from industrial leases to management agreements; from large corporations to sole proprietorships, from complex business succession planning to individual estate plans.I am an experienced negotiator and mediator and enjoy facilitating parties with diverse positions in coming to a mutually acceptable solution.Specialties:commercial real estate;banking;corporate transactions;contract negotiation;business entity formations ;estate planning, business succession and probate;collaborative problem solving

I have devoted my practice to representing individuals accused of crimes. My practice includes defending against felony and misdemeanor charges such as theft or robbery, marijuana possession, assault, domestic violence, and DWI / DUI.

I have been practicing law since 2007. I began my career as a prosecutor in Harris County, Texas. I then moved to Central Texas and prosecuted in Williamson County. After eight years as a prosecutor, I opened the Law Office of Elizabeth Whited and served my community as a criminal defense attorney.. I am now an associate at Zinda Law Group and I represent individuals injured in personal injury claims. I guide my clients through the process of making claims for motor vehicle collisions, premises liabilty claims, or dog bite cases.

I have been practicing law in Austin since 2011.  I assist individuals who have been injured throughout the state of Texas.  I pride myself on being responsive, hardworking, ethical, and honest, yet aggressive.

I have been practicing law for over a decade in the central Texas area.  I enjoy being a litigator and standing up for my clients. I am a member of the executive commitee of the Capital Area Trial Lawyers Association and head of its Membership section. I am also a member of the Family Law Section of the Austin Bar Association.  In my free time, I am a Sunday School teacher, Daisy Scout Troop Leader and I enjoy traveling, camping  and spending time with my family and friends.

I have been practicing family law for over 15 years and have extensive experience in a variety of cases including divorce, child custody issues, modifications, and child support issues.  I worked for a well established family law attorney upon graduating from law school, and then  had my own practice for over eight years.  In September 2012, I had an opportunity to join Noelke English Maples St. Leger and Blair and have been with this firm since that time.  I have also practiced employment law, commercial litigation, and trademark law, so I have a broad depth of experience in other areas as well.

I have been practicing criminal defense exclusively since 2003.  I love to help people who have found themselves on the wrong side of the law.  I take pride in my results and in the progress I have seen so many clients make following their difficulties.  My approach is holistic--I care not only about getting the best outcome possible for each and every client, but also about my clients as human beings.  I have said many times, I do not want repeat business.  I want my clients to go on and prosper after their case is concluded.  Thankfully, most clients do just that.  And they send their friends, family, and colleagues to me when they too find themselves in trouble.  For this reason I can proudly say that my business has thrived purely by word of mouth  for over a decade.  I am grateful to be in a position to help individuals accused of crimes and plan to continue to do so for as long as I am able.  In the words of John Wesley, "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."  I live by this and I endeavor to embody this ethos in my work.

I have been practacing law since 1979, and am admitted to practice in all Texas Courts and before the Western, Southern, Northern and Eastern United States District Courts. In addition, I have appeared before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. Over the last 35 years I have tried numerous cases in misdemeanor and felony courts in various ares of Texas from Austin to Houston, Dallas and Marshall and many places in between. I have tried to verdict cases in the United States District Courts in Houston and Tyler. For the past 20 years I have primarily limited by practice to criminal defense.

I have been licensed in Texas since 2009. I gained experience in several areas of civil litigation, including personal injury, products liability, contrast disputes, real estate, construction and oil & gas.. Since joining Shaw Cowart in 2012, I have been admitted to appear in all Federal Districts in Texas. My practice is currently focused on representing both individual plaintiffs and corporate defendants in personal injury and products liability claims in state and federal courts across the country.. I am a member of the Texas State Bar Association and the Austin Young Lawyers Association and live in Austin with my wife, Rachel and our son.

I have been exclusively practicing family law for over two decades.  I am board certified in family law and possess the expert legal knowledge required to handle a wide variety of family law matters. My goal is to help my clients obtain favorable results while protecting their rights and interests.  I am trained in family law litigation, mediation as well as collaborative law.  My ultimate aim is to assist my clients in resolving their differences in an amicable and efficient manner,  if possible.

I have a broad and extensive experience in litigation. My practice includes the representation of companies, partnerships, and individuals in resolving complex commercial, patent, trade secret, antitrust, and securities disputes. My practice includes the representation of both plaintiffs and defendants.. I am a board-certified in Civil Trial Law and Personal Injury Trial Law. I speak frequently at seminars on trial strategy and advocacy. I've been a member of the District 9A Grievance Council, the American Inns of Court, and the Texas Pattern Jury Charge Committee.. My practice includes trial and appellate matters in state and federal courts throughout Texas. In addition, I'm often asked to advise businesses and individuals in dealing with existing or potential disputes.. I have been recognized for skill and integrity, receiving the highest rating from his peers. My colleagues have given me an AV® Preeminent (5.0) rating in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, the highest rating for competence and ethics. I was selected as Lawyer of the Year in Austin, TX for Securities Litigation by The Best Lawyers in America©. I also was selected for inclusion in Texas Super Lawyers® in 2003-2004 and in The Best Lawyers in America© in 2014-2017. I was was honored by Texas Lawyer magazine for obtaining a Top Texas Verdict in 2011.

I have 2 wonderful children.  I enjoy going to my ranch(ette), playing golf and traveling when I have time.  I am a long-time U.T. Sports Fan, Dallas Cowboys Fan and San Antonio Spurs Fan.

I hail from Lubbock, Texas, where I became a Red Raider at Texas Tech for both my undergraduate and law degrees.  After becoming involved with the West Texas Innocence Project in Lubbock, I decided that I wanted to practice criminal defense and provide a voice for the citizen accused.. I moved to the Dallas area to become a public defender for Kaufman County after law school and handled nearly every type of offense there as First Assistant Public Defender.  In 2010 I moved to Austin to come to work at the Law Office of Jamie Balagia, where I received specialized training in the defense of DWIs.. I am proud to have recently opened my own law practice where I will continue to serve Texans accused of all criminal offenses and the problems that stem from these kind of issues.  I have handled thousands of misdemeanor and felony cases in my four years of practicing law and love nothing more than helping defend the rights of others.. Personally, I am all about friends and family, love the arts, reading, and traveling.

I grew up on a ranch in La Grange, Texas.  Population: 4,675.. After graduating from the University of Texas, I traveled to Lubbock where I obtained my Juris Doctorate from Texas Tech University in 2015.. I have been at The Gottfried Firm since August 2015 and am the first attorney in my family.. In my free time, I enjoy attending concerts and sporting events and spending time with my friends and family.

I grew up in Oklahoma and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Oklahoma where I majored in Accounting. I attended the University of Oklahoma School of Law where I was on the Dean’s Honor Roll and participated in VITA, a program where I completed income tax returns for persons in need. After graduation, I moved to Austin, where I have been practicing continuously since 2009 with a focus on civil litigation. I have represented business owners in a variety of industries and types of disputes, both as plaintiffs and defendants. I have tried many cases to judgment and have frequently represented clients through the appeals process. I also have experience with creditors’ rights and debt collection including bank garnishments, writs of attachment, and other post-judgment remedies.I am a member of State Bar of Texas, Consumer and Commercial Law Section, the Austin Bar Association, the Austin Young Lawyers Association, and Preservation Austin and Inherit Austin. I am also involved with Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas, where I have provided pro bono legal services on family law matters.I am admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Texas, the United States District Court – Western District of Texas, and the United States Tax Court.

I grew up in New City, New York, the oldest of three sisters. I graduated from Clarkstown North High School in 1984 and went to Colgate University in upstate New York. I didn't know what I wanted to do after college, so I started my own computer graphics company out of my apartment in Westchester County, while also working part-time for my father's Hardwood Flooring company.. After a year and half, I had a few graphics clients and was doing ok, but wanted some regular work, so I started looking for a job. I ended up landing a job on Wall Street with JP Morgan in their Mergers and Acquisitions Dept doing graphics and presentation support. I thought I'd like to move up their corporate ladder and decided that I needed another degree to do that. So, in the Fall of 1990, I started law school at night at New York Law School.. After a year on Wall Street, I decided that Wall Street, New York City and Corporate America were not for me. I decided that I wanted to be in a place that was not as cut-throat competitive, that was slower and friendlier and warmer. I also decided that I wanted to focus on a more personal type of law than corporate. My parents were divorced when I was 14, and even though it was a very amicable divorce it had a very strong impact on me. I decided that I was much more suited to family law and that was what I focused on in school.. I stayed 3 more years in NY, deciding where I would move when I finished law school. In June 1992, I was maid-of-honor in a wedding in Tulsa, OK - it was my first time in Tulsa and I really liked it there. The people I met at the wedding told me that if I liked Tulsa, I would love Austin. So, in November of 1992, I visited Austin for 4 days. I loved it and decided that this is where I would move in the summer of 1993, when I only had one semester of law school left. I did my last semester of law school at UT.. One of my courses at UT Law School was a clinic where I acted as student attorney in Child Protective Services cases. During one of those cases, I met an attorney, KC Anderson, who later became one of my closest friends. At that time I also started looking for a job. In December 1993, I was hired by a prominent family law attorney as his first associate, who told me to study hard for the bar (that I was registered to take in February 1994) and to start work on March 1. Sadly, while I was studying for the bar in January, that attorney passed away and I never got the opportunity to work with him.. I took the bar in both New York and Texas in February 1994 (I took the New York portion in NY on a Tuesday, and flew out Tuesday night to take the Multi-State and Texas portions in Austin on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday). While I was waiting on my results (which wouldn't be out until May), I started looking for work again. I didn't know where to go, so I met with a local judge who I had appeared in front of as a student attorney. She surprised me and told me that I should open my own practice. I couldn't imagine going out on my own straight out of law school, but she encouraged me and told me that from watching me in court, she had confidence in me. I got my bar results in May 1994 and decided that I had nothing to lose by trying it on my own, so I did it. KC and her husband (who was a prominent criminal attorney) helped me tremendously. They sent me small cases (at the time, I took both criminal and family cases) and they mentored me and advised me every step of the way. I know that I could not have done it without them.. In April 2004, my stepdaughter, Lindsey, came to live with us full-time, making me a full-time mother / step-mother of three children. Benjamin is now in 8th grade, Nathan is in 10th grade, and Lindsey is 20 and a full-time college student. As the children grew, I increased my time at the office to full-time "plus". Although I am at the office 5 days a week, I still try to get home most afternoons in time for baseball practice, golf lessons, band concerts, piano, guitar . . .  Thank goodness technology has grown to the point that I can multi-task from most any location now.. In 2011, I have now gone through the unfortunate experience of divorce myself.  It has truly opened my eyes and given me a whole new perspective on what my clients are experiencing every day.  Although I thought I understood the emotions involved, I now know that I couldn't truly understand or appreciate the rollercoaster of emotions that are involved, nor the long-term healing process for myself, my ex-husband and my children until I had to experience it for myself.  It is certainly much more difficult than I had ever imagined.. I have found that each new experience in my life has given me new perspective on my cases. Although I deal in all aspects of family law, the primary focus of my practice is on divorce and/or custody cases. When I first began as a family law attorney, I had the perspective of the child of divorced parents. Then when I married, I was able to add in the perspective of what married life is like - how it takes work and can be difficult at times. It helped me relate a lot more to my clients. At the same time, I became a part-time stepmother, and that gave me a lot of insight into my cases - and helped me come up with creative solutions for my clients. Then when I became a mom, I suddenly viewed my cases in a whole new light. In fact, the first custody case that I handled after becoming a mom was extremely difficult for me and made me want to quit the practice of family law because it was too emotional for me. I looked into other areas of law, but since I had firmly established my reputation in the community as a family law attorney, those were the cases that came to me. I decided that because of my years as a family law attorney and because of my specific life experiences, I had a lot to offer my clients and decided to stick with it.  Now that I have lived through the emotional rollercoaster of divorce myself, I can add that to the list of experiences that I share with many of my clients.  With all that I have lived through myself, I can offer realistic advice on what my clients can expect during and after divorce, from the court, from their spouse and from their children. I can also argue my cases in court from a very personal perspective, since I have lived through many of the same experiences as my clients.

I grew up in Austin, Texas and graduated from the University of Texas and then Texas Tech Law School.. I practice primarily in the areas of civil litigation and family law, with an emphasis on appellate issues in both areas. I also devote a portion of my practice to probate matters. My probate practice encompasses most areas of estate and trust administration, representing executors, trustees, heirs and beneficiaries in contested and uncontested matters.. Attorneys consult with me on civil litigation and family law cases regarding issues requiring particularized attention both at the trial court and appellate levels. This gives me a unique perspective that benefits both my litigation and appellate clients.. I help trial counsel focus on other areas of litigation by assisting them with legal issues, briefing, and positioning cases for successful appeals. This includes partnering with trial counsel before filing lawsuits and assisting throughout the litigation. I also assist individual parties with appealing judgments. My appellate experience spans from personal injury to family-law appeals.. Among other things, I represent appellate clients throughout Texas.  My practice involves handling dispositive motions, post-verdict and post-judgment motions, mandamus proceedings, interlocutory appeals, and regular appeals. I also assist with jury charges and appealing default judgments.