Mario de la Garza
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Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 20 years of experience
Personal Injury, Commercial Law
1616 S. Voss Rd., Suite 870, Houston, TX 77057
About Mario de la Garza
Practice Areas
- Personal Injury
- Commercial Law
Education
- Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, 2003Juris Doctor
- Harvard University, 1998B.A., Bachelor of Arts
- Major: History & Science
- Honors: Certificate in Mind/Brain/Behavior
- Honors: David McCord Prize
Languages
- Spanish
Representative Cases
- Obtained an $11,162,529.00 verdict for the mother and widow of a young father killed by a drunk driver who was overserved by a bar, although neither the bar not the drunk could pay anything toward the judgment
- Obtained a substantial but confidential monetary sum for the widow and children of a hardworking demolition worker that lost his life on the job;
- Obtained a substantial but confidential monetary sum for a young mother and her little boy, who developed Kernicterus, a devastating, life-long bilirubin-induced brain dysfunction, after his doctors and nurses failed to give him the proper medical treatment in the NICU
- Obtained a substantial but confidential monetary sum for a young father, husband, and worker who went the extra mile after his boss had assigned him to perform a task only two could perform, leading to catastrophic crushing injuries to his foot that severely limited his ability to work
- Obtained a substantial but confidential monetary sum for a young IT specialist knocked unconscious and traumatically brain-injured by flying concrete at a speedway after a car lost control and collided with a grossly inadequate barrier
- Obtained a substantial but confidential monetary sum for a couple hit head-on by a drunk driver, where the wife suffered severe injuries requiring major surgery
- Obtained a substantial but confidential monetary sum for a seasoned psychologist and grandfather who, while riding his bike in the neighborhood, suffered severe injuries, including a traumatic brain injury, when he was clotheslined by a rope that was extended across the street by a tree removal contractor, who had been hired by a property management company that failed to properly vet the contractor
- Obtained a substantial settlement for two young women when they sustained severe injuries after an eighteen wheeler crashed into their small car
- Obtained a substantial settlement for a couple and their two children who were severely injured after a delivery truck driver improperly drove the box truck in reverse, hitting the family’s car and dragging it for a distance
- Obtained a substantial settlement for a young man who suffered severe injuries after a fuel tanker truck ran a red light and crashed into his small car
- Obtained a substantial confidential settlement for a young father and husband who suffered severe electrical burns and neuropsychological injuries as a result of faulty equipment at his assigned worksite.
- Obtained a $3,250,000 settlement for a bicyclist who was catastrophically injured after being smashed and thrown by a truck driven by a reckless driver
Classes and Seminars
- Appellate Case Update, Author/Presenter, HBA Appellate Section Meeting, 2004
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Texas, 2003
- New York, 2012
Other Affiliations
- American Association of Justice (AAJ) (Member)
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association (TTLA) (Member)
- Houston Trial Lawyers Association (HTLA) (Member)
- New York State Trial lawyers Association (NYSTLA) (Member)
- Hispanic Bar Association of Houston (Member, Advisory Board)
- Mexican-American Bar Association of Houston (Member)
- Alumni of the Spence Trial Lawyers College (TLC) (Member, F Warriors)
Past Positions
- Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP
- Haynes and Boone, LLP
- Fleming & Associates
- Tucker, Barnes, Garcia & de la Garza, P.C., Shareholder, - 2013
Articles
Published Works
- Author: “The Court’s Charge in Texas: A Brief Overview,” TYLA eNews, State Bar of Texas, January 2007
- Author: “The Age of Webcasting: Online Video Broadcasts of Supreme Court Oral Arguments,” published in The Appellate Advocate, Winter 2006
- Co-Author (with Murry B. Cohen): “Post-verdict Preservation of Error,” State Bar of Texas 27th Annual Advanced Civil Trial Course, Fall 2004
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