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About Tony Buzbee
Tony Buzbee is a former Recon Marine officer whose military background shapes his approach to litigation: comprehensive preparation and aggressive execution. After earning an ROTC scholarship, Buzbee attended Texas A&M University, where he served as Battalion Commander in the Corps of Cadets and graduated as a Distinguished Naval Graduate and Distinguished Student. He then served as a Marine Corps infantry officer in the Persian Gulf and Somalian conflicts, ultimately reaching the rank of Captain and earning the Navy Commendation Medal. After leaving the Marine Corps, Buzbee enrolled at the University of Houston Law Center, where he served as managing editor of the Houston Law Review, was elected Class Captain by his peers, and graduated summa cum laude, second in his class.
He clerked for a federal district judge in the Southern District of Texas, Galveston Division, then worked at a prestigious litigation boutique before founding his own firm. Tony Buzbee has been named a Texas Super Lawyer by Thomson Reuters from 2004 through 2026, was named Texas Lawyer's Attorney of the Year in 2015, was inducted into the National Law Journal's Verdicts Hall of Fame in 2020, and was named a 2021 Plaintiffs' Lawyer Trailblazer by The National Law Journal. The New York Times Magazine described him as one of the most successful trial lawyers in the country.
Proven verdicts and settlements
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 who suffered toxic exposure to carbon disulfide at BP's Texas City refinery in April 2007, though the punitive damages were later vacated by the trial judge.
A Starr County, Texas jury awarded $41.1 million to the family of seaman Jose Flores, who died after being bitten by a brown recluse spider while working aboard a dredging vessel, on maritime claims of unseaworthiness and negligence against the vessel operator. The case later settled for $10 million.
A Harris County jury awarded $29 million to the family of Garland 'Rickie' Kelley, an oilfield services worker killed when a lithium thionyl chloride battery exploded at a Professional Directional Enterprises facility in Conroe, Texas.
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