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About Michael Fechner
Michael Fechner is a partner at Lyons & Simmons, promoted to the partnership in December 2025. He represents plaintiffs in complex catastrophic personal injury cases and business disputes before judges, juries, and arbitrators throughout Texas and nationally, and is known for combining trial precision with genuine empathy for clients. Fechner earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in 2018, where he served as president of the SMU Law Review and was a member of the Order of the Coif and the Order of Barristers, and a B.S. in political communications from the University of Texas at Austin in 2010.
His honors include Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, the Lawdragon Top 500 Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers guide, Lawdragon 500X Next Generation, Texas Super Lawyers, and the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40. He is a member of the Dallas Bar Association, the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, the Dallas Trial Lawyers Association, and the American Association for Justice, serves as a board member, mentor, and coach at the BridgeBuilders nonprofit, and volunteers with the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program. He is the author of the book Lessons on the Way to Heaven: What My Father Taught Me.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A Dallas County jury found Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound willfully and wantonly negligent for delaying treatment of a spinal epidural hemorrhage that left Judy 'Jessie' Adams a paraplegic, returning a verdict of $10,125,000 for Adams and her husband Richard on December 9, 2022. Jurors split fault 69 percent to the hospital, 30 percent to the physician who gave the steroid injection that triggered the bleeding, and 1 percent to his practice. Texas's cap on non-economic damages in health care liability claims cut the couple's non-economic recovery to $500,000, leaving a collectible total of roughly $5 million. The hospital appealed, and its own filing in the court of appeals says the parties reached a full and final settlement on May 31, 2023 and funded it before the appeal was dismissed on July 11, 2023, so the amount Adams ultimately received is not public. Michael Lyons, Christopher Carr, Michael Fechner and Stephen Higdon of Lyons & Simmons represented the Adamses at trial.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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