Jane Leger

Jane Leger is a personal injury, maritime and employment attorney and an ownership partner at The Ferguson Law Firm, LLP in Beaumont, Texas. Her professional name is Jane Swearingen Leger. Texas licensed her in December 1993, and the Texas Board of Legal Specialization lists her Personal Injury Trial Law certification under 2001.

Leger represents plaintiffs, including people injured in industrial accidents and car crashes, as well as those bringing employment discrimination claims. Her firm biography describes litigation around the country involving offshore and maritime accidents, boilers and pressure vessels. Among the matters it recounts is a Georgia burn-injury case that took seven years to litigate and ended in a $40 million settlement. The same account credits her with arguing before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Texas Supreme Court. It also describes a dispute over insurance fiduciary duties after customers of a Lavaca County restaurant contracted hepatitis A; the case reached the Texas Supreme Court, which ruled for her clients, according to the firm.

In a separate discussion of work at Ferguson, Leger describes meeting new clients to explain who will be responsible for each part of their case. The firm's staffing arrangements, as she describes them, often put more than one attorney on a matter. Paralegals and staff who gather medical records or handle settlements also participate. Her purpose in explaining those assignments is practical: when someone contacts a client, the client knows that person's role.