The Woodlands, TX Lawyers

Corporate and Transactional Law

25511 Budde Road, Suite 2801, The Woodlands, TX 77380

Jason L. Frazer is a business attorney at Frazer + Blase, P.C., in The Woodlands, Texas. Business, intellectual property and international law are the practice areas listed in his Texas bar profile, which identifies his occupation as private law practice. Frazer came to his own firm after holding partnership and management positions elsewhere. At an international law firm, he worked on private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions, managed the Houston office and sat on the executive committee. Before that, his work as a partner in a local firm included corporate transactions as well as complex litigation. There are business ventures on his résumé, too. His firm biography describes founding and operating logistics companies in more than one state and co-founding Net Zero Holdings, a business concerned with decarbonization strategies. It also identifies him as chief strategy officer of Circon Energy, LLC, a renewable energy project developer. His undergraduate degree, from the University of Montana, is in computer science and mathematics. He earned a J.D. at South Texas College of Law; the Texas bar records his graduation in December 2007 and his Texas license date as March 12, 2009. That profile lists him as eligible to practice in Texas. Its self-reported admissions section names New York and federal courts, including the Third and Fifth Circuit Courts of Appeals and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Family and Divorce Law

2441 High Timbers, Suite 110, The Woodlands, TX 77380

Ruth Lavada Vernier is a family law attorney and managing partner of Vernier & Associates, PLLC, in The Woodlands, Texas. She founded the firm, where her daughter, Brooke Vernier Barry, and granddaughter, Paige Elizabeth Hutton, also practice. Vernier studied psychology at the University of Cincinnati, earning her B.S. in 1980; her J.D. followed in 1983 at the university’s College of Law. Her individual practice listing covers divorce, adoption and paternity, as well as child support, custody and visitation. Juvenile law is included too. Beyond those family law matters, the listing names wills and guardianships, with collaborative law and mediation also among her stated practice areas. Several collaborative-practice organizations appear in her professional affiliations: the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, Gulf Coast Collaborative Law Network and Alliance of Collaborative Family Law Attorneys. Her profile also lists the Collaborative Law Institute of Texas, Texas Lawyers for Children and the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Texas. The firm operates from Suite 110 at 2441 High Timbers Drive in The Woodlands. Its work is described as almost entirely family law. In outlining that work, Vernier & Associates names complex divorce, property division and custody cases. The firm also reports handling international child abduction cases under the Hague Convention. That international work is part of the firm’s practice description, distinct from the subjects listed on Vernier’s own attorney profile.

Personal Injury Law

19 W Rumplecreek Pl, The Woodlands, TX 77381

Steve Faries is a partner and mass tort trial lawyer at Pulaski Kherkher, PLLC in Houston. Before law, his work was in finance and business systems: at IBM, he served as a financial analyst and project manager on the Space Station Program; at American General Corporation, he was a business systems consultant. His degrees include a BBA and MS in finance from Texas A&M University and a JD from the University of Houston Law Center. Faries came to Pulaski Kherkher in January 2022 with jury trial experience in Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee and Pennsylvania, in both state and federal courts. An earlier appointment, in 2013, placed him on the Plaintiff Steering Committee for the Mirena IUD products liability litigation in the Southern District of New York. At Pulaski Kherkher, his first assignment involved preparing dozens of bellwether clients for trial in the 3M military earplug cases. He defended client and expert depositions, questioned defense experts and coordinated discovery and briefing deadlines. By October 2022, he had another assignment: organizing administration of the firm’s Camp Lejeune docket. That work brought together internal and external resources to file thousands of claims. He also assists the Plaintiff Leadership Group with scientific analysis, discovery and bellwether litigation in the Eastern District of North Carolina. Since December 2024, Faries has also helped coordinate the firm’s Zantac/ranitidine litigation. His work there includes meeting with defense counsel and coordinating firm resources around depositions and resolution deadlines.

Medical Malpractice Law

26503 Oak Ridge Dr, The Woodlands, TX 77380, USA