Serious Personal Injury
Individualized Attention
One of the more important qualifications of an effective personal-injury lawyer is trial experience. It is the fear of what a lawyer can do before a jury of peers that puts fear in defendants.
We prepare every case as if it were going to trial.
Peter graduated from Texas Tech School of Law and started out in the fires of a small, personal-injury firm in Oak Cliff. He was handling hearings, depositions, and even trials while his colleagues were relegated to drafting motions in law libraries. He later became a partner in a Dallas-based, personal-injury firm where he represented hundreds of clients over a number of years. Later, he joined an asbestos firm as one of its lead trial attorneys.
He has represented every kind of personal-injury case you can imagine, from car wrecks to premises claims to even asbestos injuries. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to his cases, having tried cases in county and district courts and representing a variety of clients in state and federal appeals. Below are just a few representative examples of Peter’s experience in this area of law.
Represented a leasing agent who was shot on the job after having posted an eviction notice to a tenant at the direction of the landlord. The agent’s injury was not life-threatening, but Peter was able to persuade a jury to award damages in excess of $1 million.
A defendant entered into a record-breaking asbestos settlement with Peter’s asbestos law firm after Peter had presented his opening statement and taken two clients on direct examination. The defendant, a large manufacturing company, had vowed not to settle the case at any price in order to set a precedent.
While working at the Oak Cliff firm, Peter obtained a confidential settlement in the high six figures with an insurance company that had denied his client hearing aids after a work-compensation claim. The cost of the hearing aids was less than $8,000.
Peter obtained a large six-figure settlement for a client who had worked on a construction site. A worker negligently dropped a brick which struck Peter’s client’s head. The construction company denied the claim because it didn’t appear that Peter’s client had suffered any long-lasting injuries. Peter retained a forensic psychologist who provided expert opinion about internal injuries the client had suffered to the frontal lobe of his brain, impairing his ability to make decisions and exercise judgment.