Texas Personal Injury Lawyers

Personal Injury Law

Gary, TX 77316, USA

Freshman Senator, South Texas College of Law 1970, Delta Theta Phi, E.E. Townes Senate, South Texas College of Law, "Clerk of the Exchequer" 1971-1972, South Texas College of Law, "Law Review" and "Book Review Editor" 1972-1973, American Jurisprudence Award, Study of Personal Property 1971, Chairperson of the Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee, Houston Subcommittee of the State Bar of Texas 1989-1991, 20 year Anniversary rated B.V. Distinguished by Martindale Hubbell, Peer Review rated as "very highly rated". 1990-2010 and Subsequent years 2011-2019, Client Distinction Award by Lawyer.com and Martindale Hubbell in various years including 2015, Americas Most Honored Professionals for various years including 2016, 2017 and 2018

Personal Injury Law

9703 Richmond Ave, 200, Houston, TX 77042

Area of Practice: Mass Tort Alison Divine is a civil litigator who seeks accountability and compensation for victims of harmful medical devices or drugs, as well as justice for victims of terrorism. She currently serves on two plaintiff’s law and brief committees for mass tort medical device litigation involving IVC filters and Hernia Mesh. Alison also serves on the law and brief, expert, and discovery committees in a consortium of firms seeking justice for veterans who were victims of terrorism during the Iraq War. At her prior firms, Alison successfully worked to obtain a seven-figure settlement on behalf of almost one hundred pre-trial detainees and prisoners who were subjected to excessive force and routinely put in restraint chairs. She won compensatory damages along with a $250,000 punitive damages award in a FINRA arbitration against an investment advisor. She was a awarded a two year Public Interest Fellowship at the University of Georgia School of Law where she conceived of and created a program to provide free legal counsel to people facing housing insecurity, ultimately supervising law student externs while representing clients facing foreclosure and housing issues. Alison began her law career at a large southeast regional defense firm representing nursing home corporations and other medical providers. Alison was also an Enforcement Attorney for Georgia’s Securities and Business Regulation Division and later worked for a plaintiff’s firm where she practiced litigation and arbitration on behalf of plaintiffs in the areas of securities and constitutional law. As a student, Alison was a finalist in Georgia State University Law School’s Research Writing and Advocacy Moot Court Competition. She was elected Vice President of the GSU Mock Trial Team was a finalist in two consecutive ABA State Mock Trial Competitions, advancing as a semi-finalist in the ABA Regional Competition. She was awarded a Litigation Externship with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia where she was sworn in to practice, arguing and winning two appeals. She also served as President of the GSU Intellectual Property Law Society. It is Alison’s goal as a lawyer to help bring forth ongoing and positive change by vigorously advocating on behalf of her clients. She is committed to the ideals of decency and fairness in her relationships with her adversaries and to the full and just administration of the law.

Personal Injury Law

10440 N Central Expy, Dallas, TX 75231, USA

Raised and educated in Fort Worth, Texas, Attorney Amy Witherite became a notable scholarship athlete for a top 10 women’s swimming program early in her college career. She went on to receive her law degree from Texas Tech School of Law and subsequently began working for one of the oldest and largest law firms in the state of Texas in 1993. Two years later, Amy relocated her practice to an insurance defense law firm, acquiring knowledge of the strategies and procedures used in defense of insurance companies, which she later began to utilize to defend her injured Texas clients. Amy Witherite is a seasoned personal injury lawyer who co-founded the law firm of Eberstein Witherite, 2001. After almost two decades helping victims injured by car and truck wrecks, she brought her expertise to Georgia and founded the Witherite Law Group. In 2020, she rebranded the firm as Witherite Law Group. Certified in personal injury trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, she has been named by ABOTA and Texas Super Lawyer, a Thompson Reuters Service, as one of the 50 Best Women Lawyers in Texas. Since inception of the annual Texas Super Lawyer, as published in Thompson Reuters, award by Texas Monthly Magazine in 2003, Amy has been repeatedly selected by her peers. Most recently, she was featured in The Wall Street Journal and recognized as one of the Most Influential Lawyers in 2025 for her groundbreaking work in Autonomous Vehicle Accidents.

Personal Injury Law

Sugar Land, TX, USA

Andrew Sher is a Houston Attorney at Law and for over 20 years, Andrew Sher has been protecting people and the environment. Sher has an AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating and has distinguished himself as an elite environmental, personal injury attorney and business trial lawyer. Sher is a graduate from The University of Texas at Austin (B.B.A., 1991) and The University of Houston Law Center (J.D., 1993). He is bar licensed in both Texas (1994) and Colorado (1995). Sher has also regularly been selected for inclusion as a Super Lawyer by Thomson Reuters as published in Texas Monthly and as one of Houston’s Top Lawyers by H-Texas. Although located in Houston, Sher’s practice has taken him to jurisdictions all over Texas and many venues across the United States. As a personal injury attorney, Houston Attorney Andrew Sher has extensive experience prosecuting a wide variety of lawsuits including those arising from environmental and natural resource damage, complex commercial disputes and catastrophic personal injury matters on behalf of individuals, public and private companies as well as governmental entities. Houston Attorney Andrew Sher has represented land and mineral owners, such as ranchers, farmers, developers, Indian tribes, cities and states. His clients cumulatively own more than a million acres across Texas and the continental United States. “We are very selective about our cases, which means more personal service and better results for our clients.”

Personal Injury Law

3811 Turtle Creek Blvd, STE 1400, Dallas, TX 75219

Areas of Practice: Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death, Product Liability, and Commercial Litigation. ADMISSIONS: Texas, 1986, Federal District Court of the Northern District of Texas, 1986, Federal District Court of the Eastern District of Texas, United States Supreme Court, 2017. South Texas College of Law, J.D., 1986 University of Texas at Arlington, B.A., 1983 Andrew Sommerman represents clients in personal injury cases. A highly experienced trial lawyer, Andrew specializes in catastrophic injuries, wrongful death, and defective product cases. Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Andrew has tried numerous complex cases involving car accidents, truck wrecks, house and apartment fires, slip and falls, and workplace injuries. He is an advocate for victims of damaging pharmaceutical drugs such as Xarelto, Yaz/Yasmin, Viagra, and other medications that have caused serious injury or death. He has also prosecuted complex medical malpractice and liability cases involving pharmaceuticals, medical devices, improper surgeries, misdiagnosis of cancers, and infectious diseases, including AIDS, hepatitis and sepsis. Andrew has received a peer-review rating of AV® Preeminent™ (5.0 out of 5) the highest distinction awarded by Martindale Hubbell. He enjoys sharing his expertise with future generations of lawyers by teaching courses at Texas Wesleyan University, Southern Methodist University, The South Texas College of Law and the University of Texas at Arlington. He also instructs other accident attorneys in continuing legal education courses on products liability, medical malpractice, legal procedure and insurance law.