Best Lawyers in Texas, United States for Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
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Laura Pazin Porter is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs. Laura Pazin, who practices law in San Antonio, Texas, has been recognized since 2025. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Laura Pazin is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
With nearly 30 years of experience, Attorney Cindra Dowd focuses her practice on helping individuals affected by personal injury or defective products and employees who have suffered from illegal workplace practices or who are whistleblowers for false claims actions. “Many people feel confused and helpless. They don’t know what to do and feel that they have no choice but to endure the situation. I have been working with victims for years to protect their rights and obtain compensa...
Sammy Ford IV has tried over 20 cases before judges, juries, and arbitrators in his career. He represents companies and individuals around the country in all manner of civil matters, including complex commercial litigation, business torts, securities class actions, and catastrophic personal injury cases. He is board certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Sammy’s favorite place is in the courtroom trying cases. In 2022, he successfully tried a ...
Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Jud Waltman is the Managing Attorney in Houston over Personal Injury, Product Liability and Maritime Litigation. Mr. Waltman joined The Lanier Law Firm in 2002 and limits his practice almost exclusively to the representation of individuals who are victims of injury or death. He handles cases involving commercial truck collisions, product liability, medical malpractice as well as a focus on workplace injur...
Robert Alden started practicing law in 1987, and joined Byrd Davis Alden & Henrichson as a partner in 2001. In addition to commercial litigation, he tries personal injury , car accident , wrongful death and product liability cases in State and Federal courts. Robert has tried over 30 trials, and has argued several cases before the federal and state courts of appeals. Robert’s practice encompasses a wide range of civil and commercial disputes in areas such as personal injury, real es...
Alton C. Todd has more than fifty years of experience fighting for the citizens of Galveston and Friendswood, Texas. He earned his bachelor’s degree from North Texas State University in 1968 before going on to get his juris doctor from Southern Methodist University School of Law in 1971. He spent the first part of his career working for an insurance defense firm, which gave him a unique insight into how these companies structure their arguments and strategies. This allows him to build a...
Rob Sayles represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of litigation matters, including business and commercial disputes, product and premises liability matters, employment and construction disputes, and personal injury and wrongful death claims. Rob is licensed to practice in all Texas state courts and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern and Eastern Districts of Texas. A native Texan, Rob earned his undergraduate degree in finance at the University of Texas at...
Reid Martin is an experienced trial attorney with more than 30 years of taking cases in front of a jury. He has been Board Certified in personal injury trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1997. Reid is unique in that he is one of very few lawyers who handle medical malpractice cases. When you bring your case to Martin Walker, Reid will personally meet with you and review your medical records with appropriate experts to determine if you have a case to pursue. In one of h...
Christopher Colley is a shareholder in the Dallas offices of Baron & Budd. He began helping asbestos victims and their families in 2001, primarily along the Texas coast. He participated in hundreds of asbestos cases representing various trades of construction along with chemical and oil refinery workers, including pipefitters, boilermakers, carpenters, electricians and certainly those involved with insulation materials. Starting in 2006 Mr. Colley began to work almost exclusively in the s...
Mark Lanier is consistently recognized as one of the top civil trial lawyers in America. Best known as a zealous advocate for individuals in personal injury and product liability claims against major corporations, Mark brings passion, creativity and an unparalleled ability to connect with juries in courtrooms across the nation. During the past 30 years, Mark has taken on some of the biggest challenges in the legal field. In doing so, he has achieved some of the largest verdicts in history, ac...
Chip Brooker represents individuals and their families nationwide in wrongful death and serious personal injury cases caused by dangerous and defective products, trucking and transportation crashes, explosions and burns, on-the-job injuries, sexual assault, and professional negligence among other claims. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 2018, Texas Super Lawyers since 2015, and D Magazine's Best Lawyers in Dallas since 2017. In 2018, Chip was the youngest and one of onl...
Mr. Mahadass is a Managing Partner and Shareholder at Paranjpe Mahadass Ruemke LLP and represents plaintiffs in complex civil/commercial litigation, class actions, and personal injury litigation. While working with the team at PMR Law, Mr. Mahadass has represented radiation exposure victims, employment discrimination victims, those injured in automobile accidents, cyberbullying victims, students injured by their school, and many others, against insurance companies and other types of corporati...
Gibbs has a wide range of experience representing individuals injured by dangerous products and negligent corporate practices. He spent much of the past decade representing men and women diagnosed with mesothelioma from exposure to asbestos-containing products, obtaining on behalf of his client's multimillion dollar jury verdicts in Missouri and Tennessee and seven-figure settlements in states such as Pennsylvania, Maine, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Alab...
Clay is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Clay has practiced solely in the field of catastrophic injury and wrongful death since graduating from law school. His practice has been limited to the representation of victims. Over the past twenty years, Clay has successfully settled or tried to verdict cases in the areas of vehicular negligence, medical malpractice, construction site accidents, workplace injury, premises liability, and commerc...
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