Reyes v. Hargrove Industrial — scaffold collapse at a Gulf Coast refinery. The jury found gross negligence against the general contractor.
Calloway & Reyes LLP — Austin, Texas
Most firms prepare to settle. We prepare to pick a jury.
Eight attorneys. Forty-one verdicts. Personal injury, commercial litigation, and employment — every file built for the courtroom from the first phone call, because the other side can tell the difference.
Injured and it can't wait? The 24/7 line reaches an attorney, not a service — (512) 555-0147
Board Certified Personal Injury Trial Law — Texas Board of Legal Specialization
Texas Trial Registry Top 50 Trial Firms, 2023–2026
AV-Distinguished Meridian Peer Review Rating, highest tier
Fellows Lone Star Trial Institute — invitation only, verdict-qualified
The record
Verdicts are why our settlements are larger.
Selected outcomes, 2019–2026. Insurers and defense counsel know this list. That is the point.
Trade-secret misappropriation by a departing executive team, tried to verdict in Travis County District Court.
18-wheeler collision on I-35. Resolved eleven days before trial, after our reconstruction expert survived the carrier's challenge.
Negligent apartment-complex security following an assault. Settled with the trial date on the docket.
Defective hydraulic press guard; resolved at mediation after depositions of the manufacturer's design team.
Hospital whistleblower retaliation. Our client reported unsafe staffing; the jury heard why she was fired six weeks later.
Executive severance and unpaid commissions, recovered in full against a Fortune 500 employer.
Defended a family-owned distributor against a $6M breach claim. The jury awarded the plaintiff nothing.
Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Every matter is different and must be evaluated on its own facts. Amounts shown are gross recoveries before fees, expenses, and liens.
Practice
Three practices. One standard: ready for twelve jurors.
For individuals & families
Personal Injury
Catastrophic cases against carriers and corporate defendants who count on plaintiffs running out of patience. We don't.
- 18-wheeler & commercial vehicle collisions
- Workplace & industrial accidents
- Premises liability & negligent security
- Product liability
- Wrongful death
- Catastrophic & brain injury
Handled on contingency — no fee unless we recover.
For businesses & owners
Commercial Litigation
Business disputes where the outcome actually matters — tried, when trying is the leverage, by lawyers the other side has seen in a courtroom.
- Partnership & shareholder disputes
- Breach of contract
- Trade secrets & non-competes
- Fraud & breach of fiduciary duty
- Construction disputes
- Business torts & unfair competition
For employees & executives
Employment
When a career is taken unlawfully, the remedy should be measured by a jury — not by an employer's first offer.
- Retaliation & whistleblower claims
- Wrongful termination
- Discrimination & harassment
- Wage & hour violations
- Executive severance disputes
- Non-compete defense
Why it matters
Insurers keep a book on every firm. Ours reads differently.
Defense counsel and insurance carriers track which plaintiffs' firms actually try cases. A firm that hasn't picked a jury in years is telling every adjuster the same thing: hold the money, wait them out, discount the offer. That signal costs injured people and wronged businesses real, compounding money — long before anyone talks about the facts.
So we build every file as if a jury will see it. Evidence preserved in week one. Experts retained early, not borrowed late. Depositions taken on camera, for a courtroom rather than a conference room. Most of our cases settle anyway — they settle on our terms, because the alternative for the other side is a trial where we are comfortable and they are not.
The best settlements go to the firms that don't need them.
41
civil cases tried to verdict or award since the firm's founding in 2011
$214M+
recovered for clients across all three practices
3 of 8
attorneys Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization
4 hrs
maximum business-hours response to any new consultation request
The attorneys
Eight lawyers who would rather try it than talk about it.
Portrait — Marisol Reyes
Marisol Reyes
Founding Partner · Personal Injury
Lead trial counsel in Reyes v. Hargrove Industrial — the firm's $12.6M gross-negligence verdict.
Still handwrites every opening statement on a yellow legal pad. Twenty-two drafts is her record.
Portrait — Grant Calloway
Grant Calloway
Founding Partner · Commercial
Tried the firm's $7.9M trade-secret verdict; defense verdicts in three counties.
Keeps the verdict form from his first loss, at 26, framed on his desk. Says it's the most useful document he owns.
Portrait — Dana Okafor
Dana Okafor
Partner · Employment
Won the $1.85M hospital whistleblower verdict; teaches Evidence as an adjunct at UT Law.
Runs the Lady Bird Lake trail at 5 a.m. and claims her best cross-examinations are written by mile three.
Portrait — Ben Castellanos
Ben Castellanos
Partner · Personal Injury
Second chair on Reyes v. Hargrove; lead counsel on the firm's I-35 trucking docket.
Grew up translating for his parents. Runs the firm's Spanish-language intake himself — no interpreters between a client and their lawyer.
Four more attorneys — two senior associates and two associates — round out the trial teams. Ask who would handle your matter; we'll tell you by name.
The approach
Four stages. The last one is never a bluff.
Stage I
Case evaluation
Call or write. An attorney — not a screener — reviews your matter and responds within four business hours. We accept few cases, deliberately, so every one gets trial-team attention.
Stage II
Investigation
Preservation letters go out in week one. Scene work, reconstruction, corporate records, and experts retained early — while the evidence is still warm.
Stage III
Litigation
Discovery treated as trial rehearsal. Depositions taken on camera, built for a jury. Motions written to be read aloud in court, because they will be.
Stage IV
Trial
Jury selection through verdict. If the right number arrives first, the decision to take it is yours — made from strength, not exhaustion.
Client words
What it's like on this side of the table.
The insurance company offered us $90,000 and called it generous. Marisol told them to keep it and set the case for trial. Eleven days out, they paid forty-six times that. She called me every single week for two years.Rosa M. — 18-wheeler collision
My partners of fifteen years tried to squeeze me out of my own company. Grant didn't posture — he took nine depositions and set it for a jury. We settled the week the exhibits were exchanged, on my terms.David T. — partnership dispute
I reported unsafe staffing and lost the career I'd built for eighteen years. Dana never once treated my case like a file. When the verdict was read, she squeezed my hand and said, "They heard you."Karen S. — whistleblower retaliation
Consultation
Tell us what happened. We'll tell you the truth about it.
Four business hours. That's the longest you'll wait to hear from our intake team — usually it's faster.
Confidential. Everything you send is reviewed only by our attorneys and intake staff.
Contingency for injury cases. Personal injury matters are handled on contingency — no fee unless we recover for you.
Time-sensitive injury matter — a crash scene, a hospital decision, evidence that won't wait? Skip the form. The 24/7 line reaches an attorney directly: (512) 555-0147
Received.
A member of our intake team will contact you within four business hours. Time-sensitive matter? Call the 24/7 line: (512) 555-0147.
The office
Four blocks from the courthouse. On purpose.
Address
823 Congress Avenue, Suite 1400
Austin, Texas 78701
Austin, Texas 78701
Office
(512) 555-0134
24/7 injury
(512) 555-0147 — answered by an attorney, day or night
Email
intake@callowayreyes.com
Hours
Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Evenings and weekends by appointment
Evenings and weekends by appointment
Parking
Validated garage entry on 9th Street; accessible entrance on Congress.