Brian brings his healthcare background to the firm, working on medical device and pharmaceutical litigation including DePuy ASR and Pinnacle hip replacements, transvaginal mesh, ConforMIS knee replacements, Bard and Cook IVC filters, Xarelto, and Humira. The week Brian became an attorney, he gave closing statements in a successful wrongful death case in his hometown of Beaumont, Texas. The verdict was listed by Texas Lawyer as one of the top three medical malpractice verdicts of 2012. Brian was also part of the team that received a $2.24 million verdict for a client against Abbvie Pharmaceuticals in Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago, Illinois, after more than two years of litigation. In federal court, Brian sat second counsel chair in a negligence case that received a unanimous $1.85 million verdict for a client who was shot in the leg at a hunting camp.. In his spare time, Brian volunteers for the HBA Special Olympics Committee, Cub Scouts, and is active in supporting Meadow Wood Elementaryand St. John Vianney Catholic Church. Brian and his wife Cate have four children.
3120 Southwest Freeway, Suite 350 , Houston , Texas 77098
Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime, Civil , Employment & Labor , Personal Injury, Trucking Accident
Attorney Brian White has achieved large settlements and trial verdicts on behalf of injured victims. Mr. White is licensed to practice law in the State of Texas and before the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of Texas. Brian is board certified in Personal Injury Trial Law, which only 3% of attorneys in Texas have achieved.. Brian White has received nationwide attention and accolades throughout his career. He is also a member of member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and a member of the Board of Directors, Houston Trial Lawyers Association.. At Attorney Brian White Personal Injury Lawyers, we have over 45 years of combined experience helping our clients. We handle all types of personal injury matter including motorcycle accidents, truck accidents, car accidents, slip and fall cases, wrongful death claims and more.
"In my opinion, he truly cares about the cases he accepts and treats his clients with respect and professionalism. If the need were to arise for an attorney in the future I would not use anyone but Brian Beckcom." - Cindi H., a client who hired us after her husband died working offshore.. Brian is a board certified lawyer with an amazing record of success in personal injury and wrongful death cases.. Because of his reputation and long record of success, Brian and his firm VB Attorneys are considered one of the "go-to" firms for personal injury and wrongful death cases.. Brian is also a published author (6 books), a talented photographer, and an accomplished fly fisherman.. Brian is a dedicated family man. He has been married since 2000 and has three kids, Gus, Henry, and Addison. In his free time, he travels and spends time with his family.
Firm: Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner
800 Commerce Street , Houston , Texas 77002
Practice Areas: Civil , Personal Injury
Brant Stogner grew up in El Campo, Texas - a small town about an hour southwest of Houston. In high school, Brant excelled at both athletics and academics. Brant graduated in the top ten percent of his high school class; in sports, Brant and the Ricebirds won six district championships in football and baseball during his three years starting on varsity. Brant earned all-district honors all three years in both sports while also participating in theater and the National Honor Society. Despite a knee injury and subsequent knee surgery in his senior year of high school, Brant accepted a full scholarship to the University of Houston to play linebacker for the Cougars under former head coach Kim Helton.. In college, Brant's academic success continued. In his freshman year at the University of Houston, Brant earned the 1997 Conference USA Academic Excellence Award, earning the highest grade point average (GPA) of all football players in the conference. After playing two seasons, and having three surgeries in as many years, Brant decided to hang up his football cleats and transfer to Texas A&M University to complete his business degree. In College Station, Brant's scholastic accolades continued to mount. Brant was a member of numerous honor societies and graduated in the top ten percent of his class with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting.. After graduation from Texas A&M University, Brant moved back to Houston to attend law school at South Texas College of Law Houston. In law school, Brant quickly became a member of the law school's nationally ranked mock trial and moot court program under Dean T. Gerald Treece. Following just his third semester in law school, Brant won the Intramural Summer Academy Mock Trial Competition and received the Best Speaker Award. Ultimately, Brant competed as a varsity advocate in 15 mock trial and moot court competitions across the country. In addition to numerous individual speaker awards, Brant won a state tournament championship, a regional moot court tournament championship, two regional mock trial tournament championships, and, ultimately, a National Championship in mock trial at the ATLA National Trial Competition in his final semester of law school. Brant graduated law school in May of 2006 in the top fifteen percent of his law school class, was admitted into the Order of Barristers, and received the 2006 Dean's Outstanding Student Advocate Award.. Following graduation from law school and after taking the bar exam, Brant accepted an associate position at Houston law firm, Hays, McConn, Rice & Pickering (now named LeClair Ryan) while waiting for bar results. In November of 2006, Brant received his license to practice law from the State Bar of Texas while working at Hays McConn. As a licensed attorney, Brant continued to work with multiple partners on a wide range of cases in civil litigation, representing primarily defendants in personal injury and business disputes. Brant worked as a lawyer during the day and as a law professor at night while he coached South Texas College of Law Houston mock trial teams for his alma mater. After learning the ropes at Hays McConn for nearly two years, Brant accepted an associate position with Abraham Watkins in August of 2008. Brant has been with Abraham Watkins ever since and is now a firm partner with his name in the firm’s name.. At Abraham Watkins, Brant has continued to consistently try cases to verdict. Brant tried twelve cases to verdict in his first three years at the firm. Today, he exclusively represents plaintiffs. Brant's practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury matters, including gas explosions, commercial auto and 18 wheeler cases, refinery and petrochemical explosions, product defect cases, commercial business disputes, and first-party insurance bad faith and claims handling matters. Since joining the firm, Brant has helped hundreds of his clients obtain compensation for their injuries and damages caused by others. Brant is board certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Personal Injury Trial Law. He received this certification within his first five years of legal practice, which is the soonest an attorney can become board certified in Texas. In 2009, Brant received the largest verdict (over $20 million) in Texas for workplace safety and injuries and was listed in Verdict Search's Top Texas Verdicts of 2009. Brant is a board member of the Houston Trial Lawyers Association and is a founding member of the South Texas College of Law Houston Young Alumni Council. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the South Texas College of Law Houston Alumni Association and served as President in 2019.. Brant was named to the Texas Super Lawyers Rising Star list from 2011 to 2013. He was named to H Texas Magazine's "Houston's Top Lawyers 2013" list and has been named to Houstonia Magazine's "Top Lawyers" list since 2013. Despite being only thirty-four years old, Brant was selected to the Texas Super Lawyers list in 2013. He has been named to the Texas Super Lawyers list every year since 2013 and the Top 100: Texas Super Lawyers and Top 100: Houston Super Lawyers lists since 2019. In 2014, Brant was also added to the Top 40 Texas Attorneys Under 40 list by the National Trial Lawyers Association and received the award each year until he turned 40 years old. Brant has also been named to the Nation’s Top One Percent list by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel since 2015. Brant was also nominated for and inducted into the prestigious American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) as a member in 2015 and was the youngest inductee in the 2015 class. In 2016, South Texas College of Law Houston honored Brant with the inaugural Young Alumni Award. He was the first recipient to receive this award from South Texas College of Law Houston.. Brant met his wife, Jennifer O’Brien Stogner, in law school and she was one of his mock trial partners when they won the ATLA Regional Championship in Dallas, Texas and the National Championship in Miami, Florida. Brant and Jennifer have two boys, Ryker and Beckett Stogner, and one girl, Holland Stogner. Brant and Jennifer’s partnership continues as Jennifer joined the firm in 2018 as Of Counsel.
Firm: Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner
800 Commerce Street , Houston , Texas 77002
Practice Areas: Admiralty & Maritime, Aviation & Aerospace, Drugs & Medical Devices, Medical Malpractice, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Motor Vehicle Defects, Premises Liability, Professional Malpractice, Toxic Substances, Transportation , Wrongful Death, Personal Injury
Houston Attorney Benjamin Roberts focuses his practice primarily on plaintiff's personal injury litigation. Representing clients throughout the greater Houston area, he assists people who have been harmed by the negligence of others in matters involving motor vehicle accidents, defective products, premises liability, construction site and other workplace accidents, nursing home abuse and neglect, medical malpractice and wrongful death, as well as Jones Act cases and other maritime litigation. Mr. Roberts is also experienced in handling commercial disputes in business litigation arena.. A Texas native, Mr. Roberts attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in 2005. He then pursued his legal education at South Texas College of Law Houston. While in law school, he served a clerkship with a Texas trial court judge and clerked at one of Houston's oldest plaintiff's personal injury firms. Mr. Roberts was awarded his Juris Doctor in 2008 and was admitted to the State Bar of Texas the following year.. After graduation from law school, Mr. Roberts joined an insurance defense law firm. His experience representing insurance companies in personal injury litigation has allowed him to anticipate the ways in which they will attempt to deny responsibility for his plaintiff clients' losses. Following his stint wihth the insurance defense firm, Mr. Roberts worked for a prominent Plaintiff's personal injury law firm for over 8 years, where he was eventually made partner within the firm. In fall of 2018, Mr. Roberts decided to pursue his dream and open his own law firm.. Mr. Roberts previously served on the State Bar of Texas Panel 4-3 Grievance Committee, which handles disciplinary actions and investigations involving area attorneys. He is also an active participant in several legal organizations, including the American Bar Association, the Houston Young Lawyers Association, the Houston Trial Lawyers Association and the Texas Trial Lawyers Association.
Practice Areas: Personal Injury, Commercial Real Estate, Arbitration, Civil Rights, Arbitration
I am a native Texan, raised in an East Texas town called Warren. My wife is Tiffany, and we have two young sons named Jaxon and Ford. We live in Kingwood, Texas, and our kids attend public school in the district for which my wife works.. I attended the Warren schools from kindergarten through 12th grade and graduated valedictorian in my class. I then attended Lamar University in Beaumont on an academic scholarship and graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's in political science and an English minor.. In 1998, I began teaching and coaching. During the next nine years I taught primarily English and served as head basketball coach and tennis coach in Texas high schools.. In 2007, I quit teaching and began attending the Texas Tech School of Law on a full academic scholarship. In 2010, I graduated summa cum laude, passed the bar, and was admitted to practice law in Texas.. Since then, I have had the honor to work with fantastic lawyers in Lubbock, Beaumont, and Houston, where I have been since 2012. I work for Mark Lanier, who is regarded by many as the best trial lawyer in the nation. I work primarily for our briefing team in the Issues and Appeals section. In that role, I have been fortunate enough to prepare legal briefing in numerous complex matters, including antitrust, general commercial litigation, international arbitration disputes, pharmaceutical and medical device cases, general personal injury, and many more. In many of these matters, I have argued the issues, dispostive and non-dispositive, at the hearing or oral argument.. As a longtime cancer survivor, I know what it is like to look death in the eye. I believe that surviving cancer gave me a faith in God and a strength that makes me fear nothing. In my practice, I never fear a task or opposing counsel, and I always work as hard and as intelligently as possible to further our clients' interests.
Belashia Wallace is an award-winning injury attorney and certified mediator who has earned the reputation of garnering the maximum monetary recovery for her clients throughout all phases of litigation. Within her first few months in the field, she garnered more than $1 million in settlements and verdicts on behalf of her clients. She has also been featured throughout various legal publications for her successful trial results, which she attained singlehandedly against teams of multiple acclaimed attorneys and law firms.. As a former Assistant District Attorney for Harris County, Belashia prosecuted hundreds of cases before being promoted to work on a $2 million grant project for the State of Texas. In addition to receiving judicial recognition for her favorable first-chair trial victories, she was also awarded by the State’s Human Trafficking Division for her high-profile case results and effective collaborations with national government officials to combat international sex trafficking.. She later transitioned into civil litigation, handling a wide range of personal injury cases as in-house counsel for a major insurance company. She was also recognized by Fortune 500 executives for having numerous favorable trial verdicts that spanned across nearly every court level.. Belashia earned her Bachelor’s in Communication from Lamar University, where she attained leadership awards while serving as president of Lamar’s top student organizations. Notably, she is the founder of Woman to Woman, Lamar’s first women’s empowerment organization, which attained record-setting membership numbers. As the first-place recipient of the Miss Black & Gold Scholarship Pageant, she launched a citywide mentorship initiative for adolescent girls. She was also initiated into the Zeta Beta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, where she was the published National Centennial Orator to an audience of more than 10,000 members. Upon graduation, she was recognized by the City of Beaumont’s Mayor, who appointed her twice as the City’s youngest committee member.. Attorney Wallace is also an award-winning magna cum laude graduate of Thurgood Marshall School of Law. She was featured as the #1 Student Leader by Texas Southern University for her record-breaking leadership and service, including being the only law student to obtain federal judicial honors for her government leadership and for becoming the first-ever law student recipient of the President’s Award of Merit by Texas Young Lawyers Association. In addition, she served multiple terms as national director of international legal organizations— positions she held while maintaining the Dean’s List each semester.. Belashia enjoys giving back to her community by mentoring disadvantaged youth and aspiring lawyers. She especially enjoys going on new adventures with her husband and their energetic toddler, while conquering her bucket list items.
I have been practicing law since 1981, having started at Vinson & Elkins right out of law school at the University of Texas. I am a very active trial lawyer, having tried over 350 cases to jury verdict, a number that real trial lawyers would recognize as meaningful. I'm married to Colleen Cullen Akers, the daughter of a legendary trial lawyer, Dick Cullen. I have three wonderful children, one of whom is a criminal defense lawyer who is already becoming well regarded among his peers. We spend a great deal of our spare time with church and charitable activities through various groups, but mostly through the Order of Malta, a holy order of the Catholic Church in which I am a Knight.
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