Texas Personal Injury Attorneys at Brown Trial Firm, PLLC

Importance of Qualifications

Just like you would never choose a surgeon based upon a television jingle or a yellow page advertisement, you should never choose your attorney without finding out about the attorney’s qualifications, specializations and results they have obtained in other cases.

Brown Trial Firm, PLLC is an experienced trial law firm devoted to representing children who have suffered birth injuries and their families, victims of medical negligence, and individuals in major personal injury cases, product liability and trucking accidents cases. Laura Brown is Board Certified Specialist in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Laura is adjunct professor at Baylor Law School teaching Personal Injury Trial Law to the law school students.

What is Board Certification?

Many people are not familiar with what it means to be Board Certified. In Texas, Board Certification is controlled by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. To even apply for board certification in personal injury trial law, the attorney must have tried a certain number of cases and must have been the lead counsel in a required number.

In addition, the Texas Board of Legal Specialization will check out the attorney by contacting trial judges and opposing attorneys to get confidential evaluations of the skill, knowledge and reputation of the attorney who is applying. If the attorney receives positive recommendations from judges and colleagues, then the attorney is given permission to take a difficult written test. If the attorney passes that test, then he or she becomes Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law. The attorney must continue to participate in continuing legal education to remain board certified.

We are very proud that Laura Brown is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law.

Laura Brown

Board Certified, Personal Injury Trial Law – Texas Board of Legal Specialization

Laura Brown has devoted her career to fighting for people who have been seriously injured and for families who are grieving the wrongful death of a loved one.

For over 20 years, she has represented clients in wrongful death and injury cases resulting from truck accidents, major car wrecks, medical malpractice, personal injury and more.

In recent years, Laura has made birth injury cases a particular focus of her practice. She represents babies who have suffered serious injuries at birth resulting in cerebral palsy in Texas and across the nation. As a mother herself, she truly loves representing children and serving as an advocate for them.

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Travis Blake

Attorney

Travis is a native Texan, born and raised in the Fort Worth area. Travis first came to Waco to attend Baylor University in 2010 as a member of the prestigious University Scholars program, graduating cum laude in 2014 with his B.A. In 2013, Travis met his wife Berry, a fellow Baylor student, while they were studying abroad. Berry and Travis were married in 2014 in Waco, a place that they decided early on in their marriage to call home for good.

After college, Travis went on to Baylor Law School where he graduated with his Juris Doctor in 2017. At Baylor Law School, Travis competed actively on various moot court and mock trial teams, in addition to actively volunteering with a local legal non-profit and clerking part-time for a federal magistrate judge. Travis worked for a law firm in Waco before joining the Brown Trial Firm in 2023.

Travis and Berry became licensed foster parents in 2019. In December of 2020, they officially adopted their 4-year-old foster daughter, and have welcomed two sons since then as well.

In his spare time, Travis enjoys spending time with his wife Berry and pursuing various hobbies including reading, traveling, skiing, hunting, and cheering on the Baylor Bears. Travis and Berry are members at Highland Baptist Church, where Travis serves in various volunteer roles and Berry served on full-time staff with the student ministry for a number of years before stepping back to focus on raising a family. Travis has coached high school mock trial for a local private school since 2018, and he has served on several boards of local non-profits.

Shelly Tyler

Paralegal

Shelly has lived in Texas her whole life, with the last 20 years being in Tyler, Texas, which is where she calls home with her husband and 2 children. After attending a mock trial in high school, Shelly knew she wanted to pursue a career in the legal industry. Shelly graduated from Tyler Junior College with an A.A.S. in legal studies and became a Certified Paralegal though the National Association of Legal Assistants.

Shelly has worked as a paralegal over the course of the last 15 years in several capacities, but has a love for litigation and working with people. Shelly joined the Brown Trial Firm in January 2023.

Shelly married her husband, Wes, in 2004 and together they have a daughter and a son. Their kids take up most of their spare time, but together as a family they enjoy camping, water sports and snow skiing. Shelly and Wes enjoy traveling and have both traveled to Uganda, Africa to work with underprivileged children. Shelly has also served as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) since 2019. Shelly and Wes are active at their church, Green Acres Baptist Church, where over the years they have served in various ministries together.