Who will represent you. By name, on the record.
Two trial partners and a small senior team, with credentials you can verify against the State Bar of Texas before you ever call. No stock-photo associates, no bait-and-switch to a lawyer you never met.
Robert L. Bauder
Board-Certified, Personal Injury Trial Law · Texas Board of Legal SpecializationRobert spent his first eight years on the other side, defending carriers and learning, from the inside, exactly how insurers decide what a human life is worth. In 1998 he crossed the aisle and founded this firm on a single observation: the carriers paid most where they were most certain a case would be tried well.
He has spent twenty-five years since making that certainty the firm's product. He still reviews every intake personally, and the case he signs is the case he works.
- State Bar of Texas
- Admitted 1993 · In good standing
- Board Certification
- Personal Injury Trial Law, since 2003 · Held by fewer than 2% of Texas lawyers
- Education
- J.D., The University of Texas School of Law
- Standing
- Texas Bar Foundation Fellow · Million and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Lifetime Member
- 2025 · Trucking verdict after six-day Dallas County trial$11.4M
- 2024 · Trucking settlement at mediation, the case told on our homepage$8.2M
- 2022 · Jackknifed tanker, I-35E, resolved on the ECM record$5.9M
Elena M. Vasquez
Former Dallas County Prosecutor · Tries Cases in English and SpanishElena picked her first jury at twenty-six and has picked more than sixty since, first as a Dallas County felony prosecutor, now for injured families. Defense counsel who have tried cases against her prepare differently, and their carriers price her cases accordingly.
She tries cases in English and in Spanish, personally, in the same courtroom. For half of North Texas, "Hablamos Español" means an intake translator. Here it means the lawyer standing in front of your jury.
- State Bar of Texas
- Admitted 2007 · In good standing
- Prior Service
- Dallas County District Attorney's Office, felony trial bureau, 2008 to 2016
- Education
- J.D., Baylor Law School
- Standing
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association · American Association for Justice, Trucking Litigation Group
- 2025 · Catastrophic brain injury, structured for lifetime care$6.75M
- 2023 · Premises verdict after summary judgment denied, Collin County$2.1M
- 2021 · Auto verdict on subpoenaed signal-timing records, Fort Worth$780K
The firm's pledge
We are deliberately small. Two trial partners, one senior team, no intake mill, no pyramid. The lawyer who signs your case is the lawyer who deposes their safety director, argues your motions, and stands in front of your jury. If we cannot give a case that attention, we do not take it, and we will tell you so in the first call.Robert L. Bauder · Founding Partner
The Senior Team.
Small on purpose. Every member is senior, and every member touches your file, not a queue.
Investigations
Retired Texas DPS Crash ReconstructionistTwenty-two years working commercial vehicle scenes for the state. He reads an ECM download the way the rest of us read a menu, and he gets to the scene while it is still a scene.
Medical Analysis
Registered Nurse · Legal Nurse ConsultantEvery medical record in every case is read by a clinician before it is read by a lawyer. She finds the missed diagnosis, the gap the defense will exploit, and the future care nobody priced.
Bilingual Intake Desk
Staffed 24/7 · English and SpanishReal people, around the clock, in both languages. Not an answering service reading a script, members of the firm who know what to ask and what to do next, at 2pm or 2am.
Verify Us First. Then Call.
Look both partners up on the State Bar of Texas website, check the board certification, read the ledger. When the record holds up, the consultation is free and the attorney who calls you back is one of the two people on this page.
Free Case Review Or call (214) 555-0184. Twenty-four hours. Hablamos Español.