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Carl Douglas Haggard
Harris County, TX Lawyer with 51 years of experience
Free ConsultationWhite Collar Crime
South Texas College of Law
The Haggard Law Firm is headed by Houston, Texas Criminal Defense Attorney Carl Haggard, former Misdemeanor and District Court Chief Prosecutor with a lengthy tenure in the Harris County DA’s office. For over three decades, Carl Haggard has maintained the utmost integrity. He is a strong advocate for his clients, respected by Harris County Judges and Prosecutors alike.
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Bradford Joe Gilde
Harris County, TX Lawyer with 20 years of experience
Business and Environmental
South Texas College of Law
Attorney Gilde believes that to argue and win in the courtroom requires a fighter, and Judo strongly shapes Attorney Gilde’s litigation and trial strategy.
Attorney Gilde founded Gilde Law Firm to implement his own philosophy. During every case, Attorney Gilde strives to attain justice for his clients who have been injured or victimized by others. At Gilde Law Firm, “We Believe, We Fight, We Win” is our motto and reflects the passion we bring to our cases. It is simple but true. We believe in our clients and their causes, we fight for their interests in litigation, and we win the...
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David Sacks
Harris County, TX Lawyer with 39 years of experience
Appeals, Business and Real Estate
South Texas College Of Law
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For more than 30 years, Sacks Law Firm has helped people who couldn't help themselves to solve vexing legal problems. Civil appeals have made up a large portion of the law practice. Business litigation, business transactions and general litigation are also significant areas.
Attorney David J. Sacks, the founder and operator of the firm, is Board Certified in the area of Civil Appellate Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Learn more about his background through this link:
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Sacks Law Firm Exists For Clients: Individuals, Companies And Law Firms Seeking Consulting Services
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Michael David Lore
Harris County, TX Attorney with 31 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, Consumer and Employment
South Texas College Of Law
Michael Lore is the founder of The Lore Law Firm. For over 25 years, his law practice has been representing individuals in all types of labor & employment law, with a concentration on class and collective actions seeking to recover unpaid back overtime wages, to matters involving executive severance negotiations, non-compete provisions, and serious personal injury (work and non-work related). He has handled matters both in the state and federal courts nationwide as well as via related administrative agencies.
Michael and his teams’ efforts have resulted in well over $100 million in recoveries for thousands of individuals nationwide, through pre-suit settlements...
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Shawn P. Fox
Harris County, TX Lawyer
Free ConsultationProducts Liability and Workers' Comp
University of Houston - Main Campus
Shawn Fox is a Personal Injury and Civil Trial Lawyer and is licensed to practice as an attorney by the states of Texas and Pennsylvania. Acknowledged as a Texas Rising Star, his practice is focused on protecting the rights of the injured.
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Charles "Chuck" Sanders
Harris County, TX Lawyer with 7 years of experience
Free ConsultationInsurance Claims
Western Michigan University Cooley Law School
Charles Sanders is the co-founder and partner of Rose Sanders Law Firm. Charles excels at litigation and brings the tough approach needed to the courtroom when dealing with opposing counsel. Charles is passionate about helping the injured and fighting for their rights against insurance companies.
Prior to opening Rose Sanders Law Firm with his wife and co-founder, Erica Rose Sanders, Charles served as the manager of the personal injury docket at the Erica Rose Law Firm, PLLC.
Charles started his career as a paralegal for a maritime defense firm in Houston, and then decided to attend law school at Thomas M. Cooley...
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John J Davis III
Harris County, TX Lawyer with 12 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, IP, Patents and Trademarks
South Texas College of Law
John Davis is a founder and Managing Member at Kearney, McWilliams & Davis, PLLC. He practices and oversees the firm’s intellectual property, residential and commercial property, commercial transactions, and litigation practice areas. For his clients, John focuses on business problems and solutions, including entity creation, financing, mergers & acquisitions, entity reorganizations, dispute resolution, and corporate best practices and business strategy. His experience includes providing assistance in the creation of companies and commercialization of technologies, including identifying and filing appropriate intellectual property protections in patents, trademarks, and copyrights, as well as the enforcement of such rights. He also serves as counsel,...
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Joshua Ryan Hilbe
Harris County, TX Attorney with 10 years of experience
Free ConsultationInsurance Claims
University of Houston Law Center
Personal injury lawyer in Houston, TX.
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Clint Richard Reed
Harris County, TX Attorney
Free ConsultationProducts Liability and Workers' Comp
University of Houston Law Center
Clint Reed is a personal injury attorney at Attorney Brian White & Associates, P.C. He has experience working on many different types of cases including Wrongful Death, Car or 18-Wheeler Crashes, Premises Liability, Products Liability, and many others.
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J. Hunter Craft
Harris County, TX Attorney with 26 years of experience
Products Liability
Baylor Law School
Hunter Craft graduated as the Casey Presidential Scholar from Baylor University with a B.B.A. in Finance, and earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence from Baylor University School of Law. He began his legal career in litigation defense of business and catastrophic injury disputes at Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P. (now Norton Rose Fulbright LLP). He then refocused his career to advocate for those harmed by others, joining Watts Law Firm, later becoming Watts Guerra Craft. In 2013, after nearly 14 years in the legal profession, he founded Craft Law Firm, P.C., and continues to represent victims of catastrophic injuries...
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Alicia Maria Matsushima
Harris County, TX Attorney with 27 years of experience
Real Estate
University of Notre Dame
Invicta Law Firm was founded by attorney Alicia Matsushima to provide personalized attention and cost-effective assistance to clients in their real estate and commercial matters.
Invicta Law Firm is a real estate, title, and commercial litigation boutique law firm headquartered in Houston, Texas, handling complex matters in Harris County and throughout the State of Texas.
Matters handled by the firm include title and possession to real estate, landowner rights, homeowners' association matters, secured creditor rights, contracts, and business torts. The firm's clients include title closing agents, title insurers, homeowners' associations, property owners, real estate agents and brokers, developers,...
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Amy Hargis
Harris County, TX Lawyer with 14 years of experience
Insurance Claims
South Texas College of Law
Amy Hargis is a Partner at Raizner Slania, where she spends the majority of her time focusing on insurance bad faith litigation, while also pursuing personal injury claims on behalf of victims across the country.
After obtaining her Bachelor of Arts in International Studies at Texas A&M University in 2008, Ms. Hargis attended South Texas College of Law where she graduated with magna cum laude honors in 2011. While in law school, she was a Dean’s Merit Scholar and served both as the Note and Comment Editor for the South Texas Law Review and the Managing Student Editor for the Construction...
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Walter Clark Martin
Harris County, TX Attorney with 14 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness
South Texas College of Law
Clark Martin has a diverse background making him a well-rounded individual. Clark worked his way through college at Texas State University as a Weld Inspection Technician for Shaw Pipeline Services, Ltd. Clark has traveled through Western and Easter European countries, as well as the Middle East and Southeast Asia. He continued his education at Texas State University obtaining a Master of Arts degree majoring in Legal Studies. Clark had the privilege of working for Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison as a Veteran Affairs Assistant helping veterans obtain vital services. He also worked for the then Texas...
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Kalandra N. Wheeler
Harris County, TX Attorney with 19 years of experience
Administrative and Employment
University of Arkansas School of Law
Kalandra N. Wheeler is a trial lawyer with Wiley Wheeler, P.C. representing employees in Houston, and surrounding areas. Ms. Wheeler is dedicated to protecting the rights of employees and helping individuals understand what is often a confusing and stressful process. Ms. Wheeler represents employees with various types of claims, including those brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the American’s with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Ms. Wheeler also represents employees in governmental administrative proceedings, including those held before the...
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Trevon J Watson
Harris County, TX Lawyer
PO BOX 55068
Houston, TX 77055
Free ConsultationBusiness and Real Estate
Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law
Trevon Watson is a founding partner at the Law Office of Trevon Watson, PLLC, and focuses primarily on advising clients on business, commercial real estate transactions and commercial and residential construction defects in Texas. Mr. Watson’s practice is centered around effectively drafting, researching and negotiating for investors, property owners and contractors in Texas. Mr. Watson drafts deeds, purchase and sale agreements, commercial real estate leases, company agreements and advises clients of his findings.
Mr. Watson’s goal is to provide his clients with the representation, knowledge, and advice
necessary to keep their businesses moving forward. To achieve this, Mr. Watson’s approach is
thorough and...
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Joel Brandon Pardo
Harris County, TX Lawyer with 13 years of experience
Bankruptcy, Business, Consumer and Real Estate
South Texas College of Law
Joel B. Pardo has dedicated his career to helping those who have suffered, particularly at the hands of a corporation. He joined Ramsey Law Group in 2015, and has successfully tried multiple cases to verdict. He is extremely proud of his role assisting the firm in achieving its landmark $43,600,000.00 verdict in Price v. Walmart Stores of Texas, LLC et. al.
Mr. Pardo began his legal career as the supervising attorney of a class action docket at a personal injury law firm in Houston, Texas. He oversaw a team of twenty lawyers and paralegals and traveled throughout the Gulf Coast, representing...
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Robert "Chip" Lane
Harris County, TX Attorney with 20 years of experience
Free ConsultationBankruptcy and Insurance Claims
University of Miami
The Lane Law Firm is dedicated to helping clients throughout Texas in three primary areas:
1. Those with mortgage issues and/or those who are facing foreclosure or have already been foreclosed on.
2. Property owners who have experienced a delayed, denied, or underpaid insurance claim.
3. Businesses struggling with debt, in particular from merchant cash advances, receivables loans, or factoring arrangements.
We're passionate about helping fellow Texans resolve their legal issues. How can we help you today?
To schedule a no cost, no obligation consultation to discuss your unique situation, give us a call at 877-408-3328.
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Richard Todd Fass
Harris County, TX Attorney with 34 years of experience
Products Liability
South Texas College Of Law
Richard Fass joined Perdue & Kidd, bringing with him over 20 years of legal experience. His practice focuses on personal injury, including transportation and maritime litigation, and medical malpractice. He has been named a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. In his spare time, Mr. Fass enjoys playing golf and volunteers at the Shell Houston Open. He is also the Director of the Gulf Coast Chapter of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and a member of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Barbecue...
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Hector Lee Sandoval
Harris County, TX Attorney with 20 years of experience
Free ConsultationProducts Liability and Workers' Comp
South Texas College of Law
For the first 12 years of my legal career, I represented injured railroad workers from various parts of the country. From 2015 until 2019, I worked with or was associated with the law firm that handled various types of personal injury cases including work injury cases, car crashes, premises liability and slip and fall cases. I am fully bilingual (English-Spanish) and so is my staff. We take great pride in being accessible to our clients at anytime that they need us.
Durante los primeros 12 años de mi carrera legal, representé a trabajadores ferroviarios lesionados de varias partes del país....
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Jason Palker
Harris County, TX Attorney with 5 years of experience
Free ConsultationInsurance Claims
St. Mary's University School of Law
Mr. Palker was raised by a single mother and learned the value of hard, honest work from an early age and has unwaveringly been a member of the workforce since age fourteen. Having worked in a wide array of industries (including everything from restaurants, nightlife, events, and healthcare to professional sports), and even after starting multiple companies before the age of twenty, Mr. Palker found his passion for the law in college. In 2012, Mr. Palker discovered his true career path when he obtained a job as a legal assistant. While working as a legal assistant, Mr. Palker was involved...
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Lance Lubel
Harris County, TX Lawyer with 34 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, IP, Products Liability and Tax
University of Houston - Main Campus
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Joseph Onwuteaka
Harris County, TX Attorney with 39 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness and Tax
The Law Office of Joseph Onwuteaka, P.C., provides experienced, tenacious legal representation to seek justice and stand up for your rights in every situation.
If you have been injured in an accident, you are likely facing a multitude of emotions and obstacles. In addition to the overload of emotional conquests, you are likely dealing with changing family dynamics and even physical impairments as result of your accident.
You need personal attention and professional representation from personal injury lawyers that understand the pressures you are facing, whether you’ve been in a car accident, truck accident, motorcycle accident, slip and fall or...
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Brad Wyly
Harris County, TX Lawyer with 21 years of experience
Employment and Insurance Claims
The University of Texas School of Law
Mr. Wyly's practice is focused on representing Texas families against insurance companies in a wide range of personal injury and bad faith insurance cases. Mr. Wyly's law firm, Wyly & Cook, PLLC, has successfully recovered millions of dollars on behalf of individuals and their loved ones in hundreds of auto accident cases in the Houston area and throughout Texas. Mr. Wyly has represented hundreds of Texas homeowners and business owners against insurance companies for failure to pay legitimate hail, wind, fire, and other insurance claims. In these cases, Mr. Wyly holds insurance companies accountable for their actions...
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Matthew Zarghouni
Harris County, TX Attorney with 13 years of experience
Free ConsultationInsurance Claims
Arizona Summit Law School
Matthew Zarghouni is the founder at Zar Law, PLLC. He practices primarily in personal injury, insurance litigation, and commercial litigation. Matthew has fought for the rights of over a thousand clients in both personal injury and insurance coverage disputes and routinely represents commercial clients in lawsuits involving business torts and contract disputes. Prior to starting Zar Law, Matthew worked at a prominent law firm as a business torts and intellectual property litigator, a position that gave him extensive experience in federal courts. Matthew is a regular participant in multi-district litigation and is experienced in mass tort litigation. ...
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Robert Wayne Cowan
Harris County, TX Attorney with 23 years of experience
Employment
South Texas College of Law
Robert Cowan is a partner at Bailey Cowan Heckaman, PLLC where he oversees the firm’s award-winning trial and appellate briefing team. He is involved in all types of cases at BPB, including mesothelioma litigation, drug and medical device injuries, FLSA claims, dangerous products, and commercial litigation. Robert is a graduate of South Texas College of Law, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude with his Juris Doctorate.
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Mr Eric S Southward
Harris County, TX Lawyer with 25 years of experience
Free ConsultationBankruptcy and Consumer
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
Specialize in Federal Debt related legal problems. We handle debt defense, repayment plans, debt reorganization and consolidation through Federal Bankruptcy. We offer Federal Student Loan Defense and help people with income driven repayment plans and student loan forgiveness
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Mr William David Weber
Harris County, TX Lawyer with 42 years of experience
Free ConsultationBankruptcy
University of Houston Law Center
Houston bankruptcy lawyer attorney represents small businesses, consumers and creditors in chapter 7, Chapter 11, Chapter 12 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy cases, and bankruptcy litigation. 28 years experience. Board certified. Free consultation. Reasonable fees. All cases handled personally by attorney.
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W. Tyler Moore
Harris County, TX Attorney with 52 years of experience
Rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell; Houston Magazine's Top Family Lawyers; National Academy of Family Lawyers - Nationally Ranked Top 10 Attorney Award 2014; Board Certified in Family Law and in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization
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Kunal Patel
Harris County, TX Lawyer with 15 years of experience
Tax
University of Houston - Main Campus
Kunal Patel is an experienced tax attorney, having worked at the IRS, law firm, and public accounting before starting his practice. He represents individuals and business in tax matters before the Internal Revenue Service.
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Albert Thomas Van Huff
Harris County, TX Lawyer with 24 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness
University of Houston Law Center
Albert T. Van Huff is a TABC attorney with over 24 years of experience in the hospitality industry. He offers representation and outside counsel services to restaurants, bars, nightclubs, hotels, resorts, and other Texas entities holding licenses or permits from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC). His services include business entity formation, TABC liquor licensing and permitting, dram shop defense, dram shop expert witness services, general and commercial liability defense, liquor tax audit representation, TABC administrative case defense, criminal liquor code violation defense, multi-agency law enforcement audit and investigation defense, and Alcoholic Beverage Code compliance counseling.
Albert serves as the officer...
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Leslie Gabriela Giron
Harris County, TX Lawyer with 14 years of experience
Business and Immigration
South Texas College of Law
Leslie founded the Giron Kirby Law Group with the goal of providing personalized, effective, and efficient representation to businesses and individuals in relation to their immigration needs. She has dedicated her career to the practice of immigration law and is committed to providing her clients with the highest quality representation available.
Prior to starting her own firm, Leslie was an attorney at one of the nation’s largest immigration law firms, where she represented businesses and individuals in all types of immigration matters. Her expertise in and dedication to the practice of immigration law is informed not only by her prior employment,...
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Matthew Brian Ploeger
Harris County, TX Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Appeals and Business
Stanford Law School
Matthew Ploeger is dedicated to serving Sutliff & Stout’s clients with diligence, skill, and commitment. He enjoys the intellectual challenges, but even more importantly, finds great satisfaction in helping people understand and navigate the legal system and championing them in the courts.
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Matthew Ploeger began his legal career serving as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Nathan L. Hecht, the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court. He then joined the appellate practice group at a major law firm, where, for over ten years, he handled all manner of appeals and worked closely with trial teams, providing crucial support...
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Dinesh Singhal
Harris County, TX Attorney with 32 years of experience
Free ConsultationAppeals and Arbitration & Mediation
Franklin Pierce Law Center and University of Delhi
Dinesh Singhal is a seasoned civil trial lawyer with over three decades of legal experience, practicing since 1992 and exclusively in Texas since 1997. As lead counsel, Dinesh has tried over 30 cases and has established himself as a trusted advocate in complex business and commercial litigation. Dinesh focuses on business and commercial disputes involving contractual disputes, partnership disputes, business frauds, real estate disputes, and bankruptcy adversary litigation. Throughout his career, Dinesh has also handled selected serious personal injury matters. His typical clients are individuals and small businesses.
Dinesh’s legal expertise spans appearances in civil and federal district courts...
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Karalynn Candace Bac Cromeens
Harris County, TX Attorney with 21 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, Consumer and Real Estate
South Texas College Of Law
As Managing Partner for The Cromeens Law Firm, PLLC, Karalynn holds more than 10 years of experience practicing construction, real estate, lien and business law. Within her professional career, Karalynn has successfully filed more than a thousand lawsuits to foreclose or remove mechanic's liens, with 10 to 15 of those being tried to a jury.
Karalynn graduated with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Carroll College, before attending the South Texas College of Law, where she received her juris doctorate in 2004. With her extensive experience within the construction and real estate industries, Karalynn goes the extra mile,...
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Ahmad Gassan Azam
Harris County, TX Attorney with 12 years of experience
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Business, Consumer and Employment
Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law
Attorney Azam graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso, with a B.A. in Political Science, and a minor in Legal Reasoning in 2006. Before attending law school, he served as Director of Operations for an international corporation.
He graduated from Thurgood Marshall School of Law in 2012 and has been licensed with the Texas Bar since then. He is also fluent in Arabic.
Mr. Azam's philosophy is always to prepare every case as though it is going to trial. He is a zealous advocate and trial attorney, he is experienced in contract negotiations and drafting, business formation and all...
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Patrick O'Hara
Harris County, TX Attorney with 17 years of experience
Products Liability
Pepperdine University School of Law
Before the age of 30, Mr. O’Hara had already taken cases to verdict as lead trial counsel in legal actions, where millions of dollars were in dispute. Before starting his own firm, Mr. O'Hara was employed by a law firm as lead trial counsel for a litigation group of approximately twenty attorneys. Mr. O'Hara is routinely asked to serve as lead trial counsel by other prestigious law firms and seasoned attorneys for their clients. He has represented injured victims as well as businesses in state courts, federal courts and in international arbitration. Patrick O'Hara has been...
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Gary ILAGAN
Harris County, TX Attorney with 29 years of experience
AV-rated, Board Certified, experienced immigration lawyer providing innovative solutions to companies of all sizes and their employees in the healthcare, oil & gas services, engineering, biomedical research, financial services, media, telecommunications, education, entertainment, information technology, industrial services and other industries. Strong emphasis on hospitals, healthcare systems, assisted living centers, home health companies, foreign healthcare recruiters, and their employees, including Physicians, Registered Nurses, Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, and Medical Technologists. Handle Form I-9 Audits. Represent foreign investors as well as individuals in family-based immigration, Naturalization and complex U.S. citizenship cases.
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Jeff Williams
Harris County, TX Attorney with 13 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP, Patents and Trademarks
Texas Wesleyan University School of Law - Texas Wesleyan University
Jeff is a registered Patent Attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He is primarily from the western United States but has lived overseas for a number of years.
He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University in 2005. He was an engineer for a number of years at a number of large corporations before pursuing his law degree. He graduated from Texas A&M University School of Law (formerly Texas Wesleyan University School of Law) with a J.D. in 2010. By combining his education and prior work experience into the field...
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Noah M. Wexler
Harris County, TX Lawyer with 17 years of experience
Free ConsultationSouth Texas College of Law
Attorney Noah Wexler is a highly experienced trial lawyer who has handled tens of thousands of cases in the past decade. Due to his commitment to his clients, keen skills in preparing for trials, attention to detail, and his ability to identify strategies that force insurers and negligent companies to pay maximum compensation, Noah has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars. While he is highly skilled in various areas of personal injury law, he focuses the majority of his work handling catastrophic truck accident cases, pharmaceutical cases, complex product liability cases, wrongful death cases, and catastrophic offshore injury cases throughout...
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Kevin Mark Jones
Harris County, TX Attorney with 20 years of experience
(832) 675-9680
17515 Spring Cypress Rd., Suite C328
Cypress, TX 77429-2688
Business, IP, Patents and Trademarks
South Texas College of Law
Kevin M. Jones & Associates is a general practice law firm focused on the needs of small businesses and the individuals who run them. We are highly experienced in the specialized area of Intellectual Property concerns as well as contract negotiation and drafting. We aid and guide our clients in securing Intellectual Property (IP) protection, forming business structures to leverage their IP, brand their business and product lines, and handling contracts for sales, marketing and manufacturing of their products.