Wade is a trial lawyer with over 25 years of courtroom experience. He handles a wide variety of civil litigation including professional liability, transportation and railroad litigation, products liability, premises-liability and personal-injury matters, construction litigation, real estate litigation, insurance disputes, and commercial litigation. His trial experience includes wide-ranging disputes from medical negligence to officers and directors liability, products liability to railroad accidents, premises liability to construction defect matters, and bank fraud to bad-faith liability, to name a few. He has been elected by his peers to Associate Membership in the American Board of Trial Advocates. He has written and lectured for various continuing legal education programs in the State of Texas, as well as for the insurance, health care and transportation industries.
Martindale Rating
AV® Preeminent™
Education
South Texas College of Law
Doctor of Jurisprudence, 1988
Texas Tech University
Bachelor of Business Administration, Finance, 1984
Bar Admissions
Admitted to Practice in the Southern, Western, Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas
Admitted to Practice in the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
Awards And Honors
Board Certified, Personal Injury Trial Law
Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate
Associate Membership in the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)
Texas Super Lawyer, 2006, 2007, 2011 - 2017, 2019 and 2020
Houston Top Lawyer, H Texas Magazine, 2005-2015
AV®Preeminent™ rated Attorney by Martindale-Hubbell
Premier 100 Designation, American Academy of Trial Attorneys
Accreditations
Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate
Board Certified, Personal Injury Trial Law
Personal/Civil Memberships
Admitted to Practice in the Southern, Western, Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas
Admitted to Practice in the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
Houston Bar Association
HBA Construction Law
Texas Bar Association
American Bar Association
Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists
College of the State Bar of Texas
National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel
Texas Association of Railroad Trial Counsel
Member of the Trucking Industry Defense Association
American Society of Healthcare Risk Management
Greater Houston Society for Healthcare Risk Management