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Richard A. Shannon is a UT Austin graduate in Plan II (Liberal Arts) and UT School of Law. He was reared in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in a farming family. He served as an Assistant Attorney General of Texas and later as Special Counsel to the Commissioner of Insurance before entering private law practice.. For the past 25 years Richard’s practice has been devoted primarily to family law and conflict resolution through coaching, counseling, negotiating, and mediating with and for parents in all aspects of family law. Richard is an experienced family litigator who will stand-up for his client in court. He is thorough in his preparations, well-organized, creative in his problem-solving, keenly analytical, and cogent in his arguments. He represents his client’s interests with diligence and assertiveness while seeking to preserve as much good-will as possible.. “In the early 1990s, Richard became interested in mediation and conflict resolution. He was trained in mediation both by the Texas Academy of Attorney Mediators and the Travis County Dispute Resolution Center. He has mediated many family law cases as well as cases in other fields of law. He is experienced in the civil litigation model as well as the community model of mediation.. Richard has a passion for transforming the way in which family law courts work. Richard was recently elected to a three year term on the State Bar of Texas — Collaborative Law Section. He is Chairman of a new Innovations Work Group for the Section. He has the vision that family law courts, in addition to their traditional functions, should facilitate the healing of human conflicts. This is what children, parents and families need and deserve from our courts of law. In order to move this Vision into reality, Richard founded and is President of a Texas non-profit organization, the Enlightened Family Justice Institute.. Richard’s early career in private law practice was devoted to insurance regulation and related transactions. He served as Executive Director of the Texas Surplus Lines Association and represented many insurance agents and companies in regulatory matters.. He also served as a lobbyist for the Sierra Club and represented several major environmental organizations in federal court litigation involving large water development projects. He has experience at both the trial and appellate levels in both state and federal courts.

Ms. DiMasi is a commercial trial lawyer, with her primary focus on
insurance coverage and bad faith litigation.

Lonnie Roach represents clients with disability claims including long term disability claims, ERISA disability claims and Social Security disability claims. He is Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Personal Injury Trial Law.. The son of a career army officer, Lonnie Roach was born at Fort Lewis Washington in 1963. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Dallas, where he graduated with honors with a B.A. in Political Science. He then moved to Austin in 1988 to attend law school at the University of Texas at Austin. While in law school, he and his close friend, Greg Reed, won the State Bar of Texas Moot Court Competition, a prestigious State-wide competition. This was Mr. Roach’s first experience in appellate law. He’s been winning ever since.. After completing law school, Mr. Roach began his career practicing personal injury trial law and became Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization the first year he was eligible. In addition to his trial practice, he is the firm’s primary appellate lawyer and has successfully argued cases before the Texas Court of Appeals, the Texas Supreme Court, and the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.. It was natural that Mr. Roach’s career path would eventually lead him to the field of ERISA law, especially as it applies to long term disability insurance. Disability benefits cases are, by their nature, medical cases. They involve volumes of medical records that require a solid medical background to interpret. These are the skills of a Board Certified Personal Injury lawyer. When these cases go to trial, however, they take on the aspect of appeals. Disabled claimants are appealing the decision of powerful claims administrators. These trials call for the skills of an appellate attorney. Mr. Roach is both and has become a recognized expert in the field of ERISA, Long Term Disability. He has successfully overturned denials of disability benefits at the administrative level, at trial in United States District Court, and at the United States Court of Appeals.. Our disability benefits legal services are state-wide. At any given time, Mr. Roach is likely to have cases pending in all four federal districts in Texas. He is a Board Certified Texas attorney and is admitted to the United States District Courts for the Northern District of Texas, the Southern District of Texas, the Eastern District of Texas, and the Western District of Texas, as well as the United States Court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

David has been consistently practicing law for over 28 years with an emphasis on Civil Litigation. David began his career handling primarily insurance defense cases in Louisiana and then broadened his practice to general civil litigation when he moved to Texas in 1997. David handles matters in all of Texas State and Federal Courts ranging from evictions in Justice of the Peace Courts to complex Class Action Litigation in Federal Courts. David's vast litigation experience has dovetailed into his Mediation and Arbitration practice. As a mediator, David can assists parties in finding a solution for disputes to avoid the costs and risk of litigation.

Experienced Insurance attorney serving clients in Austin and surrounding areas.

Experienced Insurance attorney serving clients in Austin and surrounding areas.

Experienced Insurance attorney serving clients in Austin and surrounding areas.

Experienced Insurance attorney serving clients in Austin and surrounding areas.

Experienced Insurance attorney serving clients in Austin and surrounding areas.

Experienced Insurance attorney serving clients in Austin and surrounding areas.

Experienced Insurance attorney serving clients in Austin and surrounding areas.

Experienced Insurance attorney serving clients in Austin and surrounding areas.

Experienced Insurance attorney serving clients in Austin and surrounding areas.