Team member

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.

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.

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.

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.  Mike further provides his clients with legal analysis and advice on a variety of complex statutory and regulatory issues. Although his practice primarily focuses on litigation, up to and including trial, he has also authored a prevailing appellate court brief before the Texas Court of Appeals.

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 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.

Juan began his legal career with the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office, where he gained valuable jury trial experience handling both misdemeanor and felony cases. Towards the end of his tenure as a prosecutor, Juan served in the Special Victims Unit, where he handled the most serious child abuse cases in Tarrant County…

Sara Kimbrough Scudday primarily handles injury defense litigation. After graduating from Baylor Law School, Sara practiced as a civil litigator in the area of insurance defense. Sara then spent nearly three years as a criminal prosecutor…