Fellowship members, Brad Beckworth and Trey Duck, along with Fellowship member, Laura Tamez, masterfully tried a case in Bexar County recently.  Please watch as they share their strategy, demonstrative and discovery skills.

Brad Beckworth currently serves as Managing Partner at Nix Patterson, LLP.  He and his team were named the National Trial Team of the Year in 2020. In addition to his trial work, Mr. Beckworth has been a guest on major television news stations and podcasts. His work has been featured in “Sign Stealer,” the number one ranked documentary on Netflix in 2024 and in the YouTube series “Killing Pain,” which won a Heartland Emmy award in 2020.  Brad grew up in Conroe, Texas, and worked his way through high school and college at Texas A&M, holding a variety of jobs like working on a commercial roofing crew, running a landscaping crew for a developer, and drying cars at a commercial car wash. Brad joined the firm in 1998 in the firm’s original office in Daingerfield, Texas, with a hunger for trying cases to a jury for those who needed help.  Brad took the lessons he learned working side by side with working class people into his early career at the firm and volunteered to take just about any case he could to get in front of a jury. As a result, his early court room work included everything from trying pro bono cases for battered women and prisoners’ rights cases to complex personal injury trials.

Trey Duck is a partner at Nix Patterson. Even before law school, Trey knew he wanted to represent people who had been wronged or injured and who needed a good lawyer to fight for them. He has dedicated his career to doing just that.  Trey began his practice working on the firm’s commercial litigation files and cut his teeth on high-stakes cases like class actions, False Claims Act whistleblower litigation, and securities fraud disputes. This is complex stuff that requires not only good trial and advocacy skills, but also fearlessness, fortitude, and a creative strategy. Trey quickly became a lead attorney on many complex cases and now also focuses much of his practice on catastrophic personal injury cases. After growing up in East Texas, Trey attended Baylor University and is a third-generation Baylor graduate. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all Baptist preachers. His mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother were all public school teachers. After college, Trey went on to Baylor Law School and, while there, was an active member in the school’s trial and appellate advocacy programs. He served on winning national teams in both moot court and mock trial competitions for Baylor. Trey is proud to be the first attorney in his family.

Laura Tamez is a shareholder with the Herrera Law Firm, where she has a civil litigation practice including cases relating to construction premises/oil rig injury litigation, medical malpractice, and 18-Wheeler crashes. She has obtained several multi-million-dollar verdicts on behalf of her clients in work injury and commercial motor vehicle cases. She has dedicated much of her practice to representing injured workers and their families.  Ms. Tamez is the immediate Past President of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association when she presided during the 88th Texas Legislative Session. She is the current TTLA PAC Chair and is a past Vice-President of Legislative Affairs.  Ms. Tamez attended Texas A&M University where she received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology. She then received her J.D. at St. Mary’s University School of Law. Ms. Tamez was born in Brownsville, Texas. She is married to George, and they have two children, Elena and Carlos.

Thank you to our sponsor: