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About Maria Holmes
Maria E. Holmes has devoted her career to representing injured plaintiffs across Texas, securing favorable outcomes in personal injury, family litigation, and criminal defense matters. She has first-chair trial experience in cases ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions in controversy. Prior to joining The Buzbee Law Firm, she led the family and business litigation department at a prominent firm in the Houston Metroplex, appearing regularly in state and federal courts. Before that, she operated the Law Office of Maria Elena Holmes as a solo practitioner.
Maria is a native Houstonian and is fluent in English and Spanish. She graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, with a major in African-American Studies and a minor in Government, earning Dean's List honors. She received her J.D. from St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, where she served as President of the Black Law Students Association, earned the 2013 Pro Bono Award, and placed as a quarter-finalist in the Rocky Mountain Region Black Law Students Association Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial competition.
She clerked for the Honorable Judge Jason Pulliam in the Bexar County Court of Law No. 5. Thomson Reuters recognized her as a Texas Rising Star from 2019 through 2023, a designation given to fewer than 2.5% of attorneys under 40. Maria is licensed to practice in Texas.
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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