Texas trial lawyers for the workers who do the right thing.
Doyle Dennis Avery LLP represents Texas workers who have been retaliated against, fired, or harmed for reporting misconduct, refusing to break the law, or getting hurt on the job. Houston headquarters · Texas-wide practice · contingency representation.
Recovered for the firm's clients in wrongful termination, retaliation, whistleblower, and employment contract matters across the firm's history representing Texas workers.
Recovered by the firm's trial team across personal injury, employment, and insurance lawsuits — including the firm's separately profiled maritime and railroad personal injury practices.
When the firm goes to trial, the firm goes to win.
Workers' compensation retaliation matter under Tex. Lab. Code § 451. A unanimous jury returned a $1.73 million verdict, including $750,000 in punitive damages on a gross negligence finding. The Fourteenth Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed; after requesting briefing on the merits, the Texas Supreme Court denied the petition for review. Total recovery after affirmance: $1,977,027.73. Full fee & expense disclosure →
Public-employee whistleblower matter. A unanimous jury returned $1.1 million on a willful violation finding after a former state trooper was fired for reporting other troopers' unjustified assault during an arrest. Final judgment — including prejudgment interest, costs, and statutory attorney's fees — totaled $2,000,887.21. Full fee & expense disclosure →
The Texas workers we represent
From the Houston Ship Channel to the Permian Basin, from Texas Medical Center to NASA Johnson Space Center, from Lockheed Martin Fort Worth to Samsung Austin — the firm represents Texas workers across the industries that anchor the Texas economy.
Oilfield, refineries, and the petrochemical corridor along the Houston Ship Channel. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP, Halliburton, SLB, and the broader Texas energy workforce.
Nurses, physicians, and clinical staff at Texas Medical Center, Houston Methodist, Memorial Hermann, MD Anderson, Baylor Scott & White, and Texas hospital systems statewide.
NASA Johnson Space Center contractors (Jacobs, KBR, Aerospace), Lockheed Martin Fort Worth F-35 program, Bell Textron, and the Texas defense industrial base.
Austin tech corridor (Apple, Tesla, Oracle, Dell, IBM, Google, Meta), CHIPS Act-funded Samsung Austin and Samsung Taylor semiconductor manufacturing.
Union Pacific, BNSF, and the broader Texas railroad workforce. Anchored by the firm's Garza v. Union Pacific OSHA Findings Order under FRSA.
Long-haul, oilfield, regional, and last-mile commercial drivers across Texas. STAA whistleblower protection for safety reporting and refusal to drive unsafe.
The substantial Texas federal contractor and grantee workforce — HHS grantees, federally funded research, DOE Pantex, and the broader federal contracting workforce.
Houston energy banking, USAA San Antonio, DFW Plano financial services, broker-dealers, investment advisors, and the Texas financial services workforce.
Texas state agency employees, Texas independent school district employees, Texas higher education workers, and Texas county and municipal employees.
Texas commercial and infrastructure construction, federal facility construction, and the broader Texas construction workforce. Davis-Bacon framework applies.
Texas industrial workforce — petrochemical, refineries, steel, manufacturing operations, and CHIPS Act-funded semiconductor manufacturing.
Texas skilled nursing, assisted living, memory care, hospice, home health, and behavioral health workforce. Anchored by the firm's Sea Breeze § 260A.014 Final Award.
Trial lawyers. Contingency. We listen.
We work with Texas workers and their families when something has gone seriously wrong at work. We're trial lawyers — we prepare every case as if it will be tried to a jury, because that's the only way to get the best outcome whether the case ends up in a courtroom or settles before.
We answer every inquiry and take the time to understand what happened. Where we can help, we tell you. Where we can't, we tell you that too — and frequently we can refer you to someone who can.
Representation typically proceeds on a contingency basis in qualifying matters. We get paid when you do.
Additional verdicts and recoveries
Trial verdicts, federal whistleblower matters, and published Texas appellate authority across the firm's practice.
Long-term care retaliation matter on behalf of two co-claimants under Tex. Health and Safety Code § 260A.014. $375,681 Final Award in the firm's recent representation of Texas long-term care workers retaliated against for protected reporting.
FRSA railroad whistleblower retaliation matter. OSHA Findings Order of approximately $359,047.41 applying the contributing-factor / clear-and-convincing burden-shifting framework under Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, 601 U.S. 23 (2024).
Published Texas authority on circumstantial-evidence rebuttal of facially neutral "reduction-in-force" pretexts. The opinion's framework applies across § 451 workers' compensation retaliation, Sabine Pilot wrongful discharge, federal whistleblower retaliation, and the broader retaliation case landscape in Texas.
Published Texas appellate authority. The firm represented the appellee. The opinion establishes controlling Texas authority on the EFAA — the federal framework voiding predispute arbitration agreements in qualifying matters and restoring federal court access. The opinion's framework applies across the firm's Texas employment practice.
Additional matters tried and recovered by the firm's trial team across the firm's broader practice — including the firm's separately profiled maritime and Jones Act offshore injury practice at offshoreinjurytrialattorney.com and the firm's separately profiled FELA railroad injury practice. Inquiries about maritime, Jones Act, offshore injury, or FELA railroad personal injury matters should be directed to the firm's separate practice sites.
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Founding partner of the firm. Substantial Texas trial experience across the firm's full practice and across the firm's broader maritime and offshore injury practice profiled separately.
More about Michael →Partner of the firm. Substantial Texas trial experience in employment retaliation, whistleblower matters, and the firm's broader trial practice. Lead trial counsel on multiple of the firm's anchor matters.
More about Patrick →Partner leading the firm's federal and Texas whistleblower retaliation practice. Trial counsel and federal court counsel across the firm's federal whistleblower and Texas employment retaliation matters.
More about Jeffrey →Tell us what happened.
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Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome in any future matter. Every case is different, and outcomes depend on the specific facts and applicable law. Statements about verdicts, settlements, and outcomes reflect the specific cases referenced and should not be taken as predictions about other matters. Aggregate recovery figures referenced on this page reflect the firm's cumulative client recoveries across the matters and practice areas indicated; aggregate figures include settlements, verdicts, judgments, arbitration awards, and administrative orders.
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Doyle Dennis Avery LLP · 3401 Allen Parkway, Suite 100, Houston, Texas 77019 · 713.571.1146. The firm's broader trial team practice in maritime, Jones Act, and offshore injury matters and in FELA railroad personal injury matters is profiled at the firm's separate practice sites.