El Paso, TX Lawyers

Personal Injury Law

5915 Silver Springs Dr., Bldg 1, El Paso, TX 79912

The Ruhmann Law Firm was opened with a single philosophy: People deserve a voice for justice. Too often, the plaintiffs’ voice is drowned out by insurance companies that can afford teams of defense lawyers, downplaying the severity of the injury, blaming the victim for shared responsibility and putting their own spin on the facts. Standing up for yourself in our adversarial system of civil litigation is nearly impossible without the strength and commitment of an experienced, knowledgeable trial lawyer.

Personal Injury Law

509 E Rio Grande Ave, El Paso, TX 79902, USA

Connie J. Flores is a founding partner of Flores Mendez Law, who focuses on cases involving personal injury, including wrongful death, 18-wheeler cases, on-the-job injuries, premises liability, dram shop cases and auto collision cases throughout New Mexico, Texas and Arizona. Her mission is to help injured people who are being treated unfairly by insurance companies at a time when they need the help the most. Connie is a lifelong resident of El Paso, Texas who attended the University of Denver and graduated in 2003 with honors from the National Honor Society. Connie went on to attend the University of New Mexico School of Law and graduated in 2008, where she was a recipient the Dean’s Award. During law school, Connie pursued her passion in advancing minorities in the legal field and became President of the Mexican American Law Student Association. After law school, Connie began her professional legal career at an El Paso-based plaintiff’s personal injury law firm where she had previously been a legal assistant for over eight years prior to going to law school. In 2016, she was a founding partner of Flores, Tawney & Acosta, P.C. in which she was one of the integrate reasons the firm would have four locations throughout the southwest. On October 1, 2023, Connie decided to join forces with a fellow colleague and started the law firm Flores Mendez Law with offices in El Paso and Las Cruces. Whether negotiating with insurance companies or battling in court, Connie will go to work for you and get you the outcome you deserve. Connie’s passion is mentoring teenage parents for them to continue their education. Having her first son at 15 years old, she knows how difficult it is to stay in school. Her mission is to help and support as many teenage parents as possible by sharing her obstacles and how to overcome them. Connie frequently speaks at local high schools to share her story and the adversity she overcame to become the successful woman she is today. She strongly believes that when you bless others, blessings will come to you from places you had never imagined.

Personal Injury Law

7016 Orizaba Ave, El Paso, TX 79912

Daisy Chaparro was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. She graduated from El Dorado High School in 2008 and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor in Philosophy from St. Mary’s University in 2012. During the summers of 2010, 2011, and 2012 Ms. Chaparro was a legal intern for Lerma Law in El Paso, Texas. Ms. Chaparro then obtained her Juris Doctorate (magna cum laude) from Texas Tech University School of Law in 2015. She was admitted and licensed to practice law in the State of Texas in November of 2015 and in the State of New Mexico in April of 2016.While in law school, Ms. Chaparro developed a passion for oral and written advocacy. She represented Texas Tech Law as both an oralist and a brief writer in five national advocacy teams. She earned the Top Grade Award in her Trial Advocacy and in her Appellate Advocacy class. At the completion of her law school career, Ms. Chaparro earned the highest national advocacy distinction for law students when she was inducted into the National Order of Barristers. Throughout her time at Texas Tech Law, Ms. Chaparro served as the President of the Hispanic Law Student Association, on the Dean’s Student Ambassador Corp. as both an Ambassador and as a member of the Board of Directors, as a Student Attorney for the Civil Practice Clinic, and as an active member of the Board of Barristers. During the summers of 2013 and 2014, Ms. Chaparro worked at the law firm of a personal injury law firm as a law clerk. Following law school she began her career at a personal injury law firm as an Associate Attorney handling personal injury cases including auto collisions and work place injury cases. Ms. Chaparro is a member of the Texas Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the El Paso Bar Association, the Texas Young Lawyers Association, and the American Association for Justice. She joins Flores, Tawney & Acosta P.C. as a litigating and briefing attorney for both personal injury and employment discrimination cases.

Personal Injury Law

700 N Stanton St, El Paso, TX 79902

Linzui Vergara is a dedicated advocate who fights tirelessly for justice, equity, and transformative change. With unwavering conviction, she empowers her clients, helping them overcome challenges and reclaim their power. Her work isn’t just about solutions—it’s about rewriting futures, one life at a time. Driven by a deep belief in fairness and human potential, Linzui stands as both a guide and a warrior for those she serves. Whether navigating complex systems or breaking down barriers, she ensures her clients are heard, supported, and equipped to thrive. Beyond her professional role, Linzui’s passion for making a difference fuels her relentless pursuit of a better world—one where integrity and action create lasting, meaningful change.

Personal Injury Law

521 Texas Ave, El Paso, TX 79901

Since 2009, Maxey Scherr has litigated countless jury trials resulting in multi-figure verdicts and settlements across the board. In 2022, she founded Scherr Law Firm. Her areas of expertise include truck crashes, traumatic brain injuries, wrongful death claims, product liability in truck crashes and non-obvious third-party defendants. Ms. Scherr is licensed in Texas, New Mexico and Illinois and graduated from Texas Tech School of Law. After she earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Massachusetts-Boston with magna cum laude honors, Ms. Scherr undertook postgraduate work in Neuroscience at Harvard University. Board Certified in Truck Accident Law by the National Board of Trial Advocates and Personal Injury Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Ms. Scherr has extensive experience in her specialty, undergone rigorous examinations, is supported by the reviews of peers and judges, and demonstrates an unwavering commitment to the advocacy of her clients and justice. Ms. Scherr currently serves as the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys (ATAA) Board Secretary and is on the Board of Regents after formerly serving as Board Parliamentarian and Women’s Caucus Co-Chair. At the American Association for Justice’s Trucking Litigation Group, Ms. Scherr is on the Executive Board, is the Education Co-Chair, and manages the Broker Database. For AAJ’s Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, Ms. Scherr serves as the Brain Injury Association of America Liaison and Diversity & Inclusion Committee Chair while still maintaining an active role in the Women’s Caucus. Ms. Scherr sits on the board of the Rules of Evidence Committee for the State Bar of Texas. Widely recognized as an authority in her field, Ms. Scherr frequently presents to fellow attorneys and publishes thought-provoking articles discussing key trucking and brain injury issues. Ever the passionate advocate, Ms. Scherr can be found lobbying for heightened trucking safety and finding ways and means to increase awareness concerning brain injury matters. In her hometown of El Paso, Ms. Scherr is a Downtown Management District Board Member and Women’s Rights Commission Member. In 2023, Ms. Scherr launched the Scherr Law Firm Scholarship and Internship Program for local high school students considering a career in the legal field. Every summer, her firm also offers a clerkship to promising students pursuing a degree in the legal field. Most recently, Ms. Scherr was honored by TopVerdict.com after successfully obtaining TWO Top Five Verdicts and TWO Top Five Settlements in the State of Texas. In the larger United States, she also received recognition for a Top 10 Truck Accident Settlement, a Top 20 Truck Accident Verdict and TWO Top 20 Occupational Injury Verdicts. She is also a co-founder of the All-Women’s Trial Lawyer Association and Of The 8, Inc. and spearheads several other noteworthy programs. Known for her integrity and work ethic, Ms. Scherr is honored to be a part of the Melvin M. Belli Society and the International Society of Barristers.

Personal Injury Law

10516 Montwood, El Paso, TX 79912

Michael J. Gopin has practiced law in El Paso since 1987. Even after more than 30 years, he still remembers his first jury case. It was two weeks after receiving his license, when he represented a person whose life had been forever changed after being blinded in a work-related incident. “We convinced the jury to agree with us and received a favorable verdict,” he remembers. This victory has stuck with him, and he is proud to have continued to build a long list of satisfied clients ever since. Michael has successfully handled countless cases of medical malpractice, product liability, personal injury, and nursing home negligence. He enjoys helping people “get their lives back in order” by providing high-quality legal representation and compassionate customer service. Michael especially likes leveling the playing field for individuals who find themselves in disputes against huge insurance companies. His law firm has earned a reputation for having the experience and the resources to go to battle against large insurers that try to delay, deny, or devalue legitimate claims. But that’s not the only way Michal and his law firm make a difference. For about five years, he has worked with KFOX14-TV on its charitable “Pay It Forward” campaign, doing good works around the community. Examples of the firm’s contributions include raising money for the American Cancer Society in a ping-pong contest, filling up motorists’ gas tanks, purchasing customers’ groceries, or cleaning up a veteran’s yard and upgrading his air conditioner. “I go all over the city and do nice things for people, just to make people smile and have a better day. It’s rewarding,” he says. A native of Chicago, Michael moved to El Paso when he was 11. His uncle is a personal injury attorney, and Michael first became intrigued with the idea of practicing law as a teenager, when he served as a judge in a mock trial at Coronado High School. He graduated from the University of Texas in Austin in 1983 with a bachelor of business administration, majoring in accounting. He received his juris doctorate degree from St. Mary’s School of Law in San Antonio. Michael and his wife, Dawn, have six children. His two siblings and extended family also live in El Paso. “We’re committed to the people of El Paso and the area,” he says. When he is not working on a case, Michael is a three-time national table tennis champion and avid traveler. “I’ve been to a good percentage of the world,” he says, noting that India and New Zealand are two of the places left on his bucket list. He’s proud of the mark the Law Offices of Michael J. Gopin, PLLC, has made around El Paso, through three locations and a large staff ready to visit clients any time of the day or nigh

Personal Injury Law

420 East San Antonio Avenue, 2ND FL, El Paso, TX 79901

Sam Legate is a founding partner of Scherr Legate in El Paso, where his legal work includes personal injury and labor and employment cases. His firm biography also lists product liability, nonsubscriber work injuries and wrongful death, and identifies him as managing partner. Listed with the State Bar of Texas as Sam Jackson Legate, he is eligible to practice in Texas. Before El Paso, there was Presidio, the Texas border town where Legate grew up. His education took him to the University of Texas at Austin for a business administration bachelor’s degree, completed in 1983, then to the University of Oklahoma School of Law for his law degree in 1986. Five years of practice in Oklahoma preceded his move to El Paso in the early 1990s. It was a mutual friend, Sue Kurita, who introduced him to Jim Scherr as a potential professional match. His Texas license was issued on March 22, 1991. Outside the firm, Legate’s record includes hospital board service and a joint donation with Scherr. The two gave $1 million to create the Scherr Legate Trauma Center at University Medical Center. From 2000 through 2007, Legate sat on the El Paso County Hospital District board; he was its vice chair from 2003 through 2007. His work with El Paso Children’s Hospital included becoming a founding director in 2007 and serving as the hospital’s founding board chairman.

Elder Law

4131 Trowbridge Drive, El Paso, TX 79903

Stephanie Townsend Allala is a veteran journalist and El Paso Elder law attorney. After two decades in radio, television, and newspaper, she took her advocacy in a different direction- helping the disenfranchised. Ms. Townsend Allala graduated from the University of Texas School of Law at Austin, where she was the Ray and Kay Bailey Hutchison Scholarship recipient. She was also Outstanding Graduate in Broadcasting at University of Texas at El Paso. She devotes her life to public service, and has served as the President and or Director of all of the following organizations: The El Paso Women’s Bar Association, El Paso Women’s Bar Auxiliary, El Paso Bar Association, El Paso Press Club, El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, El Paso Association of Hispanic Journalists, and CASA of El Paso. She also spent four years as a Director on the Board of Nazareth Care Facility, a non-profit charitable skilled nursing facility. It was her work on the Board of Directors for Nazareth that helped her to understand the difficulties in placement of certain individuals with special capacity issues. For example, many times persons with advanced dementia, schizophrenia and chronic psychosis find themselves suddenly homeless, because there are few facilities capable of caring for people with advanced dementia and mental illness. Ms. Townsend Allala helps these families find permanent homes for their loved ones. Ms. Townsend Allala is a proud mother of two daughters, Jessica Kludt, who is an attorney and Vice President of Townsend Allala & Associates, and Amelia Jordan, who works and studies in Los Angeles. Stephanie’s work as advocate for a transparent, honest and open government led her to file the most famous Open Records Request now pending in Texas. It resulted in litigation which is now pending before the Texas Supreme Court, City of El Paso v. Allala. She was named El Paso/El Chuco Person of the Year for 2014 for her fight to bring honesty to El Paso government.

Medical Malpractice Law

4621 Pershing Dr., El Paso, TX 79903

Walter Louis Boyaki is an attorney with Boyaki Law Firm in El Paso, Texas, whose listed work includes personal injury and medical malpractice for plaintiffs. His office is on Pershing Drive, at 4621. The State Bar of Texas identifies his occupation as private law practice and lists him as eligible to practice in the state. Boyaki earned his J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center in 1972. On December 7 of that year, he received his Texas law license. His bar profile also records admissions to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The federal district courts listed there are Colorado, Kansas and the Western District of Texas. Medical malpractice is the category for which Boyaki appears in The Best Lawyers in America, with recognition dating to 2007. That listing is specifically for lawyers representing plaintiffs. His Super Lawyers profile covers both plaintiff-side medical malpractice and general personal injury; it records selections in 2009 and each year from 2014 through 2026. He appears in both directories as Walter L. Boyaki. His full middle name, Louis, is used in the Texas bar record, which identifies him by bar card number 02759500. The same record places Boyaki Law Firm in its two-to-five-attorney size category.

Other

2407 E. Yandell Dr, Suite AV, El Paso, TX 79903

Personal Injury Law

521 Texas Ave, EL PASO, TX 79901

Licensed in 2009, Maxey has tried over 40 jury trials with a multi-figure verdict across the board. Before law school, Maxey received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Massachusetts-Boston and did her post-graduate work in neuroscience at Harvard University. In 2008, Maxey received her law degree from the Texas Tech School of Law. In addition to her interest in the law, in 2014 she ran for the U.S. Senate, and has been a tireless advocate for numerous causes. Maxey has received various awards and accolades and has been asked to sit on different boards for the State of Texas and to speak on topics ranging from trucking law to traumatic brain injury. She is licensed in Texas, New Mexico and Illinois.