OUR TEAM

  • Donna C Peavler, Director
    Donna C Peavler, Director
    Donna Peavler began her trial career while still in law school, trying and winning her first case while still a third-year student. Since then, she has honed her trial skills, trying over 30 jury cases to verdict in Texas state and federal courts. In addition, she has significant arbitration experience, gathered through 20 years of representing nonsubscribers. In fact, Donna is known as one of Texas’s foremost authorities in the nonsubscription industry. Of course, she mainly handles all types of general-liability and wrongful-death cases, including tractor-trailer crashes, premises liability, products liability, criminal-activity cases, and false-imprisonment/malicious prosecution.
  • B. Kyle Briscoe, Shareholder
    B. Kyle Briscoe, Shareholder
    Kyle Briscoe is a trial lawyer specializing in defense litigation.  He has successfully handled a broad spectrum of cases involving personal injury, wrongful death, premises liability, products liability, commercial disputes, transportation, and non-subscriber matters.  His clients range in size from small business owners to multi-national corporations, including retailers, community service providers, freight companies, and restaurants. Kyle has effectively represented clients in numerous jury trials in state and federal courts throughout Texas.  In addition, he has extensive experience handling appellate matters.
  • Nicolas M. Lund, Shareholder
    Nicolas M. Lund, Shareholder
    Nick Lund is a litigator and business attorney. He has successfully defended and prosecuted a variety of cases on behalf of commercial clients, including personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits, general negligence claims, contract disputes, and construction matters. Nick also serves as a business advisor and outside general counsel to companies throughout Texas, including retailers, contractors, oil & gas producers, restaurants, insurers, contractors, real estate investors and developers, health care providers, medical practices, and technology firms.
  • Sara Kimbrough Scudday, Partner
    Sara Kimbrough Scudday, Partner
    Sara represents our clients primarily in the area of personal injury defense litigation throughout the state of Texas, both in general liability claims and non-subscriber employee injury litigation...
  • Michael W. Stumbaugh, Partner
    Michael W. Stumbaugh, Partner
    Mike is involved in all aspects of commercial and general civil litigation.  His practice includes drafting and arguing motions and briefs and representing the firm’s clients at hearings, mediation, binding arbitrations and trial...
  • Alan Rosenberg, Senior Counsel
    Alan Rosenberg, Senior Counsel
    Alan Rosenberg is a trial lawyer and business attorney.  With over 20 years of experience, he has successfully tried cases throughout the State of Texas.  Alan also serves in an outside General Counsel role for companies...
  • Seth Lightfoot, Associate
    Seth Lightfoot, Associate
    Prior to becoming an attorney, Seth was a research assistant to Professor Rudolf Dolzer at SMU Dedman School of Law where he graduated with honors. Seth is now a veteran litigator with experience on both sides of the aisle. From multidistrict product liability litigation on behalf of plaintiffs to personal injury defense on behalf of companies, Seth has repeatedly achieved successful outcomes for his clients.
  • Margaret M. Knott, Associate
    Margaret M. Knott, Associate
    Margaret Knott obtained her law degree from the University of Houston and is licensed to practice in both state and many federal courts in Texas. She currently focuses on personal-injury, nonsubscription, and premises-liability litigation. She also has extensive experience representing insurance carriers in workers’ compensation litigation and administrative hearings.
  • Preslie Grumbles, Associate
    Preslie Grumbles, Associate
    Preslie Grumbles received her law degree from the Texas A&M University School of Law in 2023. While in law school, Preslie competed in several mock trial competitions, including TEX-ABOTA’s “Best in Texas” Voir Dire Competition...
  • Thomas Panuthos, Associate
    Thomas Panuthos, Associate
    Tom handles injury defense litigation in general liability, nonsubscriber premises liability and negligence cases. In addition to both state and federal court litigation, Tom has also successfully handled cases in both arbitration and binding mediation. Prior to joining the Firm, Tom acquired valuable trial experience in both trucking defense and personal injury litigation. He also gained valuable insight from the other side as a Plaintiff’s attorney for a large injury firm specializing in motor vehicle accident and slip and fall litigation. Tom’s professional experiences and thorough analysis of cases have yielded positive results and successful resolutions. Tom is licensed in all four of the federal district courts of Texas.
  • Lance Kitchens, Associate
    Lance Kitchens, Associate

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