Gabriel de Vega

Texas Bar No. 24069585 resolves to the State Bar of Texas member directory, showing licence status, the 2009 admission date and any public disciplinary history. That record also lists the firm's address at 8313 SW Freeway, Suite 102 — which matters more than it might appear, because matching a bar record to a firm address is how a profile is confirmed to be the right person rather than a namesake. This site publishes the number so that verification is a two-minute exercise rather than a matter of trust.

He is the Senior Litigation Attorney, working on filed and contested matters alongside Bernard G. Johnson III, who leads the litigation department. In practice that means the cases where liability is disputed or an insurer's position makes settlement unrealistic, and the discovery, depositions and motion practice that follow. Which attorney is best placed for a particular matter depends on the type of case, and it is a fair question to ask at the first conversation rather than after signing.

Because clients write about the person who handled their case. Several reviews on the firm's Google Business Profile name him specifically, and that is a genuinely useful signal — but about a particular thing. Reviews tell you how it felt to be a client: whether calls were returned, whether people understood what was happening in their own case. They cannot tell you whether an attorney is licensed and in good standing, which is what the bar record is for. Both are worth checking, for different reasons.

The firm's injury and wrongful death work — vehicle collisions of every kind, commercial truck and bus crashes, workplace and industrial injuries including Texas non-subscriber claims, maritime matters out of the Ship Channel and the Gulf, defective products, and fatal accidents. The firm does not handle criminal defence, family law or business litigation. Being told plainly that a matter falls outside the practice is more useful to you than being taken on by someone learning it.

Yes. Se habla español, and that is not a marketing line in a metro where a large proportion of injured people are more comfortable discussing a serious matter in Spanish than in English. It matters practically as well as socially: an account of a crash given in a second language under stress is less complete than one given in a first, and completeness is exactly what a claim depends on when the same account has to hold up months later.

Ordinarily Harris County, at the Civil Courthouse, 201 Caroline Street, Houston, TX 77002. Matters arising elsewhere in the metro may belong in Fort Bend County at the Justice Center in Richmond, or in Waller, Montgomery, Galveston or Chambers County depending on where the incident occurred. The firm operates from a single office at 8313 Southwest Fwy Ste 102 rather than through branch addresses, and serves the surrounding metro from there.

Earlier than the deadline suggests. Texas gives two years from accrual under § 16.003(a), but camera footage near a crash scene is commonly overwritten within days, vehicles are repaired or scrapped, and a claim involving a governmental vehicle requires written notice within six months under § 101.101. The consultation is free and commits you to nothing — what it does is preserve options that close quietly while someone is concentrating on getting better.

Because it is how identity is confirmed rather than assumed. Legal directories are full of profiles that look right and belong to someone else — this firm has a documented namesake problem with a different Texas attorney sharing the founder's name. Matching a bar record to a known firm address is a simple, objective check that a profile refers to the right person, and it is the same check we would suggest you run on any attorney you are considering.

Ask at the first conversation and get a name. In a three-attorney firm the answer is usually straightforward, but you are entitled to hear it confirmed rather than assume it — and the same question is worth asking anywhere else you consider, where the answer is more often an intake coordinator you will never speak to again. Ask also how often you will hear from them and who to contact when you have a question.

The consultation is free and there is no obligation. Representation is on a contingency fee — a percentage of the recovery, with no fee if there is no recovery — set out in a written agreement that you receive before signing, along with how case expenses such as records, filing fees and expert reports are treated. Any firm should be willing to put those terms in writing at the outset.