Hill Country Trial Lawyers

• Born in Bertram, Texas
  
• Graduated From Lampasas High School in 1969
  
• Has Tried Over 200 Criminal and Civil Jury Trials

Licensed to Practice

• Admitted to the Texas Bar in 1981
  
• U.S. District Court, Southern and Western Districts of Texas

Education

• University of Texas, Bachelor's Degree, 1974
  
• Antioch School of Law, Juris Doctorate, 1980

Experience and Accolades

• Public Defender, Burnet County, Texas, 1988 - 90
  
• Elected County Attorney, Burnet County, Texas, 1990 - 92
  
• Voted: Best Attorney – 2009, 2012, 2013 
  
• Voted: Best Law Firm – 2014, 2015 and 2019

Memberships

• Highland Lakes Bar Association, President, 1990
  
• State Bar of Texas
  
• Highland Lakes Criminal Defense Association, Vice-President, 2006 - 07
  
• Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
  

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Born and Raised in Washington, D.C.

Licensed to Practice

• Admitted to the Texas Bar in 1981
  
• U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas

Education

• University of Maryland, Bachelor's Degree, 1971
  
• Antioch School of Law, Juris Doctorate, 1980

Experience and Accolades

• Assistant County Attorney, Travis County, Texas, 1985 - 89
  
• Voted: Best Attorney – 2008 and 2016
  
• Voted: Best Law Firm – 2014, 2015 and 2019

Memberships

• Highland Lakes Bar Association
  
• State Bar of Texas
  

• Born in Austin, Texas
  
• Graduated With Honors From Marble Falls High School, 2002
  

Licensed to Practice
 

• Admitted to the Texas Bar in 2011

Education

• Texas A&M University, Bachelor's Degree, Biomedical Science, 2006
  
• Elected President of Law School Class, 2009 - 10
  
• Texas Southern University, Juris Doctorate, 2011
  
• Certification in Governmental Law

Accolades

• Helen Dawn Williams Mock Trial Competition, 2009
  
• Executive Board, Student Bar Association, 2009 - 10
  
• Executive Board, James M. Douglas Board of Advocates, 2009 - 11
  
• Senator Rodney Ellis Texas Legislative Internship Program
  
• The Task Force on Indigent Defense & Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions, 2010
  
• National Mock Trial Competition Texas Young Lawyers Association, 2010 - 11
  
• Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award for Trial Simulation, 2010 - 11
  
• Judge for National Mock Trial Competition Texas Young Lawyers Association, 2014
  
• Voted: Best Law Firm – 2014, 2015 and 2019
• Votes: Best Attorney - 2020

Experience

• Galow & Smith, PC, 2010 - 11
  
• Shell & Shell, 2012 - Present

Memberships

• Highland Lakes Bar Association
  
• State Bar of Texas
  
• Texas Trial Lawyers Association
  
• Capital Area Trial Lawyers Association
  

Watch Austin Shell on the A&E series, “The Accused: Guilty or Innocent?” where he defends the innocence of a man on trial for his life and accused of Manslaughter in Llano County, Texas.

• Born in Garland, Texas
  
• Graduated From Wills Point High School in 2003

Licensed to Practice

• Admitted to the Texas Bar in 2012

Education

• Texas A&M University, Bachelor's Degree, English / Philosophy, 2007
  
• South Texas College of Law, Juris Doctorate, Cum Laude, 2012

Experience and Accolades

• South Texas College of Law Dean's Scholar
  
• Participant in Advanced Family Law Clinic
  
• The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Judicial Intern, 2010
  
• Burt Barr & O’Dea, LLP, 2011
  
• Judge for National Mock Trial Competition Texas Young Lawyers Association, 2014
  
• Voted: Best Law Firm – 2014, 2015 and 2019

Memberships

• Marble Falls Daybreak Rotary, Member, Public Relations Director, 2014
  
• Highland Lakes Bar Association, President 2014
  
• State Bar of Texas
  
• International Legal Honor Society of Phi Delta Phi
  
• American Bar Association
  

• From Goldthwaite, Texas
• Graduated With Honors From Goldthwaite High School in 2008

Licensed to practice law

• Admitted to the Texas Bar in 2017

Education

• Texas Tech University, Bachelor's Degree, Finance, Magna Cum Laude, 2012
• Texas Tech University School of Law, Juris Doctorate, 2016

Experience

• Field Manning Stone Hawthorne & Aycock, Law Clerk, 2013
• McWhorter Cobb and Johnson, Law Clerk, 2014
• Texas Tech Law Ambassadors

Memberships

• State Bar of Texas