Brenda is an accomplished litigator who has tried more than 30 cases to verdict in her more than 25 years of experience.  She is board certified in personal injury trial law and AV rated in Martindale-Hubbell.  Her practice areas include:  personal injury; medical malpractice; premises liability; and products liability.  She is also a frequently requested guardian ad litem in cases involving minors.  She represents hospitals, physicians, nurses and various other health care providers.  In addition to her formidable expertise as a trial lawyer, she is also a trained mediator and has mediated over 500 negligence cases.  Her work as a mediator combined with her broad litigation knowledge gives Brenda an incomparable ability to assess and guide clients through all types of health care liability claims.

• Represents physicians, nurses, hospitals and other individual and institutional health care providers in complex medical negligence litigation.
• Advises and lectures health care professionals on health care risk management issues.
• Represents health care entities in peer review, disciplinary and licensure-related proceedings.
• Obtained numerous successful verdicts for physicians and other health care providers and institutions in medical negligence cases.

• Baylor University School of Law, J.D.
• Baylor University, B.A.

• “Medical Liens and Subrogation”, updated for Frank Costilla and presented to
  State Bar of Texas, Advanced Personal Injury Course Dallas, Texas, July 22-25, 1997
• Nursing Home Malpractice in Texas: Successful Case Management from Investigation to Trial”, co-authored and delivered with Susan Abbott Schwartz, National Business Institute, Dallas, Texas, July 29, 1997
• “Nursing Home Litigation in Georgia”, authored and delivered with Pamela Scarborough in Atlanta, Georgia, May 6, 1998
• “Nursing Home Litigation in Texas”, authored and delivered with Pamela Scarborough in Dallas, Texas, June 10, 1998 and December 2, 1998; in Austin, Texas on February 5, 1999; and in Houston, Texas on February 19, 1999
• “Nursing Home Litigation in Nevada”, authored and delivered with Pamela Scarborough in Las Vegas, Nevada, September 23, 1998
• “Nursing Home Litigation in Florida”, authored and delivered with Pamela Scarborough in Jacksonville, Florida, November 18, 1998
• “Mediation in Medical Malpractice Cases”, presented at Managing Risk in the 21^st Century, at Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, on August 9, 1999

• State Bar of Texas – Health Law Section
• Dallas Association of Defense Counsel

• Texas
• United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas