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Mark Pierce

Proven Verdicts
Attorney at DJC Law
Austin, TX40 years experience

About Mark Pierce

Mark D. Pierce is an attorney at DJC Law in Austin, Texas, with more than 40 years of legal experience and a national reputation in aviation law and complex personal injury litigation. He has served as lead attorney in more than 100 trials, handling aviation crashes, helicopter accidents, product liability, and wrongful death matters.

Pierce is also an FAA-certified commercial pilot, which informs his work in aviation accident cases. He has been recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer in Aviation Law for over a decade. In 2024, he secured a $4.5 million verdict that placed him on Texas's Top 20 Personal Injury Verdicts list.

In the legal community, Pierce has served as President of the Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association and as Chair of the Aviation Law Section of the State Bar of Texas. He frequently mentors other attorneys and presents CLE seminars on aviation and trial practice topics.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$4,507,000Verdict

A Travis County jury found J.D. Abrams LP 100% negligent after construction logs fell on a worker passing beneath the Highways 183 and 35 interchange project, awarding $4,507,000 in damages.

Travis County District Court, 201st District Court · 2024Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$3,962,887Verdict

A Travis County jury found Texas Regional Landfill Co. 100% negligent after a visitor fell from a horizontal post at the landfill scale, suffering a traumatic brain injury and a torn elbow ligament, and awarded $3,962,887.

Travis County, 345th Civil District Court · 2024Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Texas
The State Bar of Texas — Aviation Law Section, Past Chair
Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association — Past President

Awards & recognition

Texas Super Lawyers — Aviation Law (10+ years)
Top 20 Personal Injury Verdicts in Texas (2024)

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