Austin TX legal market - plaintiff firms? Forum

[Anonymous User]

Google searching hasn't brought up nearly as many options in the Austin TX market as I had imagined. My guess is most firms have their Texas offices in Dallas or Houston?

Either way, anyone know of any plaintiff side firms in Austin that are of the size and reputation of Cohen Milstein, Lieff Cabraser, or Outten & Golden/Sanford Heisler, etc.

[trmckenz]

Thomas J. Henry advertises all the time

[HenryHankPalmer]

Frankly, not many. Reid Collins & Tsai and Baron & Budd have a small offices here. Nix Patterson Roach has an Austin office as well, but I don't know big it is or how regularly they hire. There are also some good small/midsized firms that do some plaintiffs work, but nothing on a Lieff Cabraser scale.

[Anonymous User]

Frankly, not many. Reid Collins & Tsai and Baron & Budd have a small offices here. Nix Patterson Roach has an Austin office as well, but I don't know big it is or how regularly they hire. There are also some good small/midsized firms that do some plaintiffs work, but nothing on a Lieff Cabraser scale.

Disappointing to hear. Any specific midsized plaintiffs firms that are particularly reputable and come to mind?

[yankees12345!]

The scene is much more local in Austin. Watts Guerra would be one national plaintiff-side power house with a small footprint in the city, although most of their lawyers are based in San Antonio. Baron and Budd, as another poster mentioned. Then there's a long list of more local personal injury firms, some of the top names for which are Whitehurst Harkness, Slack & Davis, Edwards Law, etc.

If you want to look in Dallas or Houston, there are more national mass tort firms in those cities. Places like Mark Lanier's firm and Mostyn's firm. Still really nothing with the broad range of practice areas or 'prestige' you'd find at a Leiff Cabraser or Cohen Milstein.