Some lawyers guard what they know. Jack McGehee gave it away.
He is a founding partner of a Houston trial firm and one of the most decorated plaintiff’s lawyers in Texas, board certified in personal injury trial law and recognized nationally as a civil trial specialist. He served as president of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association and, later, president of the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He has tried hundreds of cases to verdict, the kind of medical, brain, and birth injury cases that most lawyers never take to a jury.
What sets him apart is what he did with all that experience. He taught. He stood at the front of trial advocacy programs at the University of Houston and beyond, and he wrote a book on how to build a plaintiff’s case from voir dire to verdict, and gave the proceeds to the trial bar. A lawyer who wins is impressive. A lawyer who teaches the next generation to win is something else.
That is the model. Be good enough to keep it all to yourself, and then refuse to.
Jack E. McGehee, a Houston trial lawyer board certified in personal injury trial law, past president of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association and of the National Board of Trial Advocacy, an adjunct trial advocacy instructor, and author of a book on trying a plaintiff’s case. This is general information, not a comparison of lawyers or a guarantee of results.
