Michael Fechner

Michael Fechner

recognized lawyers icon Recognized in Ones to Watch since 2024
Awarded Practice Areas
Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
Awarded Practice Areas
Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
Works at
Lyons & Simmons

4 Best Lawyers awards

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Biography

Michael Fechner's trial practice focuses on representing plaintiffs in complex catastrophic personal injury cases and business disputes. Whether it is a personal injury matter or a complex business dispute, he demonstrates the uncommon compliment of human empathy to go with his critical thinking and legal experience.

He has obtained favorable judgments, arbitration awards, and settlements for his clients across a wide spectrum of subject matter and currently handles cases before judges, juries, and arbitrators throughout Texas and the country.

Fechner earned his law degree from Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law, where he served as President of the SMU Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif and Order of the Barristers. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

He is the author of “Lessons on the Way to Heaven: What My Father Taught Me,” a book about his father’s devotion to serving and loving the hopeless and hurting in the face of his own terminal cancer diagnosis. Fechner serves as a board member, mentor, and coach at BridgeBuilders, a non-profit organization that his father founded to serve the south Dallas Bonton neighborhood. He also has worked extensively with Legal Aid of Northwest Texas as a member of the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program.

Works at
Lyons & Simmons

4 Best Lawyers awards

Lyons & Simmons logo

Locations

Education

  • Southern Methodist University, J.D., graduated 2018
  • The University of Texas, B.S., graduated 2010

Bar Admissions

  • Texas, State Bar of Texas

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas

Affiliations

  • State Bar of Texas - Member
  • Dallas Bar Association - Member
  • Dallas Association of Young Lawyers - Member
  • Texas Trial Lawyers Association - Member
  • Dallas Trial Lawyers Association - Member
  • American Association for Justice - Member

Client Testimonials

Awards & Focus

Recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America 2026 for work in:
  • Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Litigation - Intellectual Property
  • Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs
Awards:
  • Best Lawyers, Ones to Watch, 2024-2026

  • Texas Rising Stars, Thomson Reuters, 2023-2025

  • Lawdragon 500 X - Next Generation of Leading Lawyers, 2024-2025

  • Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers, 2024

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