Mario de la Garza - Houston, TX

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, 2003
    Juris Doctor

• Non Legal Education

  • Harvard University, 1998
    B.A., Bachelor of Arts
    Honors: Certificate in Mind/Brain/Behavior
    Honors: David McCord Prize
    Major: History & Science

Current Employment Position(s)

• Personal Injury Attorney

Past Positions

• Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP
• Haynes and Boone, LLP
• Fleming & Associates
• Tucker, Barnes, Garcia & de la Garza, P.C., Shareholder, - 2013

Languages

• Spanish

Classes and Seminars

• Appellate Case Update, Author/Presenter, HBA Appellate Section Meeting, 2004

Representative Cases

• Obtained an $11,162,529.00 verdict for the mother and widow of a young father killed by a drunk driver who was overserved by a bar
• Obtained a substantial but confidential monetary sum for the widow and children of a hardworking demolition worker that lost his life on the job;
• Obtained a substantial but confidential monetary sum for a young mother and her little boy, who developed Kernicterus, a devastating, life-long bilirubin-induced brain dysfunction, after his doctors and nurses failed to give him the proper medical treatment in the NICU
• Obtained a substantial but confidential monetary sum for a young father, husband, and worker who went the extra mile after his boss had assigned him to perform a task only two could perform, leading to catastrophic crushing injuries to his foot that severely limited his ability to work
• Obtained a substantial but confidential monetary sum for a young IT specialist knocked unconscious and traumatically brain-injured by flying concrete at a speedway after a car lost control and collided with a grossly inadequate barrier
• Obtained a substantial but confidential monetary sum for a couple hit head-on by a drunk driver, where the wife suffered severe injuries requiring major surgery
• Obtained a substantial settlement for two young women when they sustained severe injuries after an eighteen wheeler crashed into their small car
• Obtained a substantial settlement for a couple and their two children who were severely injured after a delivery truck driver improperly drove the box truck in reverse, hitting the family’s car and dragging it for a distance
• Obtained a substantial settlement for a young man who suffered severe injuries after a fuel tanker truck ran a red light and crashed into his small car
• Obtained a substantial confidential settlement for a young father and husband who suffered severe electrical burns and neuropsychological injuries as a result of faulty equipment at his assigned worksite.
• Obtained a $3,250,000 settlement for a bicyclist who was catastrophically injured after being smashed and thrown by a truck driven by a reckless driver

Published Works

Articles

• Author: “The Court’s Charge in Texas: A Brief Overview”, TYLA News, State Bar of Texas, January 2007
  
• Author: “The Age of Webcasting: Online Video Broadcasts of Supreme Court Oral Arguments”, published in The Appellate Advocate, Winter 2006
  
• Co-Author (with Murry B. Cohen): “Post-verdict Preservation of Error”, State Bar of Texas 27th Annual Advanced Civil Trial Course, Fall 2004
  

Bar Admissions

• Texas, 2003
• New York, 2012

Other Affiliations

• American Association of Justice (AAJ) (Member)
• Texas Trial Lawyers Association (TTLA) (Member)
• Houston Trial Lawyers Association (HTLA) (Member)
• New York State Trial lawyers Association (NYSTLA) (Member)
• Hispanic Bar Association of Houston (Member, Advisory Board)
• Mexican-American Bar Association of Houston (Member)
• Alumni of the Spence Trial Lawyers College (TLC) (Member, F Warriors)