Ilya Hefets

Associate Attorney at The Carlson Law Firm
Waco, TXAdmitted 2023

About Ilya Hefets

Ilya E. Hefets is an Associate Attorney at The Carlson Law Firm in Waco, Texas, focused on personal injury law. He graduated magna cum laude from Baylor Law School in 2023, where he focused on estate planning and criminal law, and earned his bachelor's degree summa cum laude in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before Carlson Law Firm, he worked as a litigation attorney at Dunham LLP and previously had experience at Levenson Law Group and the McLennan County District Attorney's Office.

Proven verdicts and settlements at The Carlson Law Firm

These results are credited to The Carlson Law Firm. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A federal court in Washington, D.C. awarded $1.956 billion to 114 survivors and Gold Star family members in Carlson Law Firm's second successful default-judgment lawsuit holding Iran liable for the October 2000 USS Cole bombing.

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Judge Rudolph Contreras; case 1:21-cv-01187) · 2024Read the full story →

A federal court in Washington, D.C. awarded $807 million to 58 USS Cole bombing survivors and immediate family members after finding that Iran provided material support to the al-Qaeda operatives who carried out the 2000 attack.

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Judge Rudolph Contreras; case 1:20-cv-01557) · 2023Read the full story →

A San Antonio jury returned the largest sexual assault verdict in U.S. history against a sole assailant, awarding $325 million to a child sexually abused by her grandfather over multiple years.

285th District Court, Bexar County, TX (Judge Nadine Nieto) · 2023Read the full story →
$7.4 millionVerdict

A Travis County jury awarded Ronnie Claxton of Del Valle and his wife about $7.4 million in January 2020 after an oversized load struck a Highway 71 overpass and a heavy steel tie-down ratchet from the load came through his windshield, injuring his neck and spine. On August 31, 2022, the Eighth Court of Appeals reversed in large part, rendering judgment for the owner and on several claims against the company and driver, and remanded the remaining claims for a new trial.

146th District Court, Travis County, Texas · 2020Truck AccidentsRead the full story →

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Practice areas

Education

Baylor Law School
J.D., magna cum laude (Baylor); B.A. Political Science, summa cum laude (UCSB), 2023
University of California, Santa Barbara
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Texas, admitted 2023 (Bar No. 24136897)
State Bar of Texas

Awards & recognition

Magna cum laude, Baylor Law School
Summa cum laude, UC Santa Barbara

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