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About Bret Griffin
Bret Griffin is a former State District Judge for the 212th District Court and a former state prosecutor, known for his analytical and measured approach to litigation. Born and raised on the Texas Gulf Coast, where his grandfather built ships at Todd's Shipyard and his father practiced medicine for over 40 years, Bret attended the University of St. Thomas in Houston and then law school at the University of Tulsa School of Law. He has practiced law since 1997, with his prior work including service as Chief Prosecutor for the Galveston County District Attorney's Office from 2000 to 2006 and then as a State District Judge.
He is now focused on plaintiff personal injury litigation. Bret earned his B.A. cum laude in Political Science from the University of St. Thomas in 1993 and his J.D. from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 1997. He speaks English and Spanish.
Proven verdicts and settlements at The Buzbee Law Firm
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A Dallas jury awarded $1.1 billion against a trust fund heir who beat a 2-year-old into a permanent vegetative state in 2021, a verdict the firm calls the largest child-assault award in U.S. history.
A Harris County jury awarded $640 million to the family of David Lester Loree II, a journeyman pipefitter fatally crushed when a top-heavy HVAC unit being lifted by TNT Crane and Rigging overturned in high winds at a Texas A&M University-San Antonio construction site in September 2021.
A San Patricio County jury awarded $198.2 million to Kristene Chapa, who was kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and shot in the head at a public park in 2012, with the verdict holding her convicted attacker, his father, and their family pharmacy jointly liable.
A Houston jury awarded $159 million to five oilfield workers burned, and the family of one man killed, in a 2012 liquid-fire explosion at Valero Energy's Memphis, Tennessee refinery.
A Galveston federal jury awarded $100 million to ten contract workers exposed to carbon disulfide at BP's Texas City refinery in April 2007. The judge set aside the punitive damages, seven workers later settled on undisclosed terms, and the Fifth Circuit vacated the verdict for the remaining three in 2011.
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