PERSONAL INJURY & WRONGFUL DEATH ASSISTANCE NATIONWIDE

 BOARD CERTIFIED TRIAL LAWYER - FREE INJURY LAWSUIT EVALUATION

The Willis Law Firm is based in Houston, Texas with a strong national presence and recognition.  With over 21 years of personal injury experience,Mr. Willis has gained a national reputation as a leading personal injury lawyer in the United States. He specializes in the prosecution of serious injury cases, involving burns, paralysis, anoxic brain damage, spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries and wrongful death suits against automobile and tire manufacturers, chemical plants and other corporate entities.

Mr. Willis is committed to representing seriously injured people and their families. Mr. Willis was born and raised in Texas. He graduated from Baylor University in 1978 and then went on to graduate from the South Texas College of Law in Houston in 1982. He then went to serve as an Attorney on the Texas Supreme Court of Texas in Austin, Texas until 1984 when he began to practice plaintiff's personal injury law in a Houston. In 1992, Willis founded Willis & Associates, a personal injury law firm with a heavy emphasis in products liability, maritime and industrial litigation.

Mr. Willis has the distinction of being Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1988. This legal certification by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization identifies an attorney who has been recognized as having extensive knowledge and actual experience trying a prescribed number of personal injury cases to a jury verdict. In order to be Board Certified, Mr. Willis had to pass strict testing and qualification requirements to demonstrate his knowledge of the law of evidence, procedure and other areas of substantive law in the trial of civil cases. Less than 2% of all Texas attorneys have earned this important certification in Personal Injury Trial Law.

In 1997, Mr. Willis was involved in one of the nation's first Firestone ATX Radial Tread / Belt Separation andFord Explorer rollover cases which occurred in Texas. A products liability lawsuit was filed in 1998 against Ford and Firestone due to the Ford Explorer going out of control and rolling after the back left Firestone ATX radial tire's tread came off. After a long battle with Ford and Firestone a very significant confidential settlement was reached by all parties.On July 17, 2001 Mr. Willis was recognized as one of a very select group of products liability attorneys in the nation and was awarded the prestigious Steven J. Sharp Public Service Award for his contributions in investigating and gathering evidence pertaining to tire belt separation and vehicle rollovers in Firestone Tire and Ford Explorer Cases. The efforts by these selected attorneys and others helped lead to the largest recall in U.S. history. This award was presented to Mr. Willis by the president of the American Trial Lawyers Association.

WILLIS LAW FIRM GETS RESULTS

Throughout his 20+ year legal career, Mr. Willis has been personally compelled to force manufacturers to be accountable for their negligent acts and for the sale of dangerous products that kill and maim the consumers in the United States. Willis has made the headlines on more than just a few occasions. A few notable cases that helped make a difference:

� In 1993 Willis and co-counsel R.Hopkins successfully represented the mother of a young girl found at the bottom of a crowded wave pool. She survived, but suffered anoxic brain damage.Willis sued not only the pool owner, but the wavepool designer, builder and equipment company. This case help raise an awareness in the entire water park industry that most wave pools have a design safety flaw. This litigation put the top water park safety consultants on notice of the defect and this helped to set in motion a new standard to wave pool design in the future.

� In 1992, Willis was asked another Texas Lawyer to be co-counsel in a tire explosion case that involved a can of aerosol tire fixer.The client had been blinded in both eyes when tire he was working on exploded. After about 12 months of litigation the nation's largest manufacturer of fix a flat type of tire sealants stopped the manufacturer and sale of its butane filled tire sealant and switched to a non-explosion formula.

� In 1997, Mr. Willis was involved in one of the nation's first Firestone ATX Radial Tread / Belt Separation and Ford Explorer rollover cases which occurred in Texas. A products liability lawsuit was filed in 1998 against Ford and Firestone due to the Ford Explorer going out of control and rolling after the back left Firestone ATX radial tire's tread came off. After a long battle with Ford and Firestone a very significant confidential settlement was reached by all parties..

� In 1999, two Texas attorneys requested Mr Willis to handle a case in which a 5 year old girl was rendered permanently brain damaged as a result lack of a child proof cap on a bottle of Theophylline.The Pharmacist failed to re-package the prescription of asthma medication into a childproof container. After 10 months of legal maneuvers and depositions, one of the largest single plaintiff settlements in US History was reached with a pharmacy, drug manufacturer and pharmacist. Not only did this confidential out of court settlement make a huge difference in the quality of life and medical care for this child and her parents, the litigation also resulted in major internal changes as to child proof packaging procedures at this Multi-Billion dollar company.

FREE PERSONAL INJURY LAWSUIT EVALUATION

If you have a question regarding a personal injury claim or the wrongful death of a friend or family member, call and talk to an injury attorney now. Willis is a Board Certified Personal Injury Trial Lawyer, certified by Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Please call our office if we can be of assistance to you or your family. No Fees or Expenses Charged unless we recover for you !  CLICK HERE FOR FREE CONFIDENTIAL CASE EVALUATION.

 

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