Bret Daniel Stanley - Houston, TX
Attorney at Johnson Law Group
Litigating Rideshare Cases Lawyers in Houston, TX
2925 Richmond Avenue Suite 1700 Houston, TX 77098 - 3135
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Houston Litigating Rideshare Cases Lawyer
Updated: 03/02/2026
Areas of Practice
- Litigating Rideshare Cases
- Pharmaceutical Device and Drug Cases
- Mass Torts
- Complex First-party Insurance Claims
- Catastrophic Personal Injury Claims
Litigation: 100%
Attorney Information
Overview
Over the course of his career, Mr. Stanley’s practice has focused on litigating rideshare cases, pharmaceutical device and drug cases, mass torts, complex first-party insurance claims, and catastrophic personal injury claims.
Mr. Stanley has substantial litigation and trial experience against major pharmaceutical drug & device manufacturers as well as against Uber Technologies, Inc. In 2023, Mr. Stanley was first-chair trial attorney in a three-week Texas trial against a major vaginal mesh manufacturer. Additionally, Mr. Stanley has tried many cases through final arbitration against Uber Technologies, Inc. and, in 2024, tried the first ever jury trial against Uber Technologies, Inc. concerning the question of whether Uber Drivers are employees of Uber.
Mr. Stanley has cross examined at trial many hostile corporate witnesses, taken many 30(b)(6) depositions of corporate representatives, deposed hostile expert witnesses, developed multiple general causation expert witness reports effecting thousands of cases, prepared and presented general causation plaintiff experts for depositions, developed case specific expert reports concerning hundreds of cases, prepared and presented case specific experts for depositions, drafted and served full written discovery in several MDLs, completed full motion practice (dispositive motions, Daubert motions, motions in limine, etc.), and drafted and filed appeals to the circuit court.
Mr. Stanley has been selected to leadership or assisted leadership in the following mass tort litigations:
- MDL 3084 – In re: Uber Technologies, Inc., Passenger Sexual Assault Litigation– Plaintiff Steering Committee Member;
- MDL 2924 – In Re: Zantac (Ranitidine) Products Liability Litigation– Deposition Committee and Discovery Committee;
- SGLT2 Diabetes Drug Consolidations in Delaware and Connecticut – Executive Committee;
- Option™ Vena Cava Litigation in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania – Executive Committee; and,
- Transvaginal Mesh MDLs in the Southern District of West Virginia
Awards and Honors
Honors
- National Trial Lawyers’ Top 40 Under 40 for Texas 2018
- National Trial Lawyers’ Top 40 Under 40 for Texas 2019
Education
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Legal Education
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Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law,
Houston,
Texas, 2010
J.D.
Honors: cum laude
Honors: With Honors
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Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law,
Houston,
Texas, 2010
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Non Legal Education
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University of Texas at Austin,
Austin,
Texas, 2006
B.A.
Major: History/Geography
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University of Texas at Austin,
Austin,
Texas, 2006
Current Employment Position(s)
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Senior Counsel
Past Positions
- Austin Independent School District, Teacher and Coach, 2006 - 2007
- Texas Exes Alumni Association, 2002 - 2006
Bar Admissions
- Texas, 2010
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Western District of Texas
- U.S. District Court District of Arizona
- U.S. District Court Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Florida
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Louisiana
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Missouri
- U.S. District Court District of New Jersey
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court Southern District of West Virginia
Other Affiliations
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association, 2010 - 2014
- Galveston County Bar Association, 2010 - 2014
- American Association for Justice, 2010 - 2014
- Texas Cowboys, 2003 - 2006
- Texas Cowboys Alumni Association, 2003 - Present
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Contact
2925 Richmond Avenue
Suite 1700
Houston, TX 77098 - 3135
Phone: 713-322-8131
Email: Send a message
Website: http://www.johnsonlawgroup.com
Hours: Monday to Friday: 9am - 6pm
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