As founder and managing attorney of Brandy Austin Law Firm, PLLC, Brandy Austin has worked hard to build an innovative law firm that caters to the legal needs of each client, provides professional growth opportunities for each team member, and gives back to the community. She strives to create a diverse team of legal professionals that provides innovative, high-quality, and cost-effective legal services to the everyday person and small business. Brandy frequently represents the underdog against big businesses and insurance companies. She also represents small businesses and business owners who are taken advantage of or who often give more than they receive. As a business owner herself, she shares a special connection and understanding with small business owners and their families.
Brandy Austin manages all the business, financial, marketing, and administrative aspects of the firm. She also supervises client accounts and each department’s case assignments and assists in more complex matters. Committed to the success of happy employees and a positive work-life balance, Brandy has created an inclusive team culture that celebrates individuality and promotes diversity.
Brandy Austin focuses her personal legal practice on multiple types of litigation, including personal injury, business disputes, probate, and contested family law. Brandy has tried multiple cases to verdict and is the lead member of the firm trial team.
Educated clients is one of the founding principles of the firm. Brandy Austin strives to simplify the legal process, automate the routine office tasks, and streamline the typical case process. One way Brandy educates her clients is by hosting a weekly Facebook and YouTube Live show - Disclosure: Live with Brandy Austin Law. Each episode is dedicated to a legal topic or question that may be in the news or that may be a frequent question or topic presented by clients. The show generally begins with a fun segment and local news headline segment before diving into the topic of the week. The show focuses on educating people on Texas law and the rights of its citizens, and even those who are not citizens.
Brandy is involved in the community and instills this principle into the firm culture. Each department and all members of the firm have the opportunity and are encouraged to become active members of the local community, as well as non-profit organizations that directly support the local community.
Born and raised in the small-town Salisbury, North Carolina, Brandy Austin is the first college graduate of her family. Neither of her parents graduated from college and she defied the odds to attain a high level of education. Following law school, she worked on medical malpractice and medical device cases, initially, on behalf of insurance companies. Soon after, Brandy transitioned to representing insured drivers of a non-standard insurance company. This position lacked the client interaction Brandy needed. She also married and became a mom during this time. Work-life balance become the highest priority after having her first child.
Realizing the need for a firm that creates, even encourages, a family-friendly environment, along with a place legal professionals could find value in the day to day work within the field of law, Brandy Austin started her own firm May of 2013. She worked only part-time in the beginning and only had a total initial investment of $300, which was the firm’s business registration fee with the state of Texas. The first year, with only a small number of clients, Brandy continually reinvested in herself and the firm to help it grow. The next few years were a building period. As with most businesses, some decisions were effective and helpful, some failed miserably. Creating a team of people with a shared vision and excitement for each day is a difficult task. People change, lives change. Brandy has worked diligently to find a group of people committed to providing quality, ethical legal services to a diverse community. The goal of the organization is to share differing views in an environment supportive enough to analyze them in a legal context and apply those ideas with the community and the profession of law.
Her life is a testament to what you can achieve through hard work, perseverance, determination, and resilience. She has an entrepreneurial drive that constantly moves her forward in the face of obstacles.
Notable Accomplishments
Rising Star, Super Lawyers 2015-2018
Fort Worth Magazine 2015-2018
Top 10 Attorney Award Under 40, National Academy Of Personal Injury Attorneys
AVVO Top Attorney Award
Top Attorney, Ft. Worth Magazine 2015-2016
10 Best Client Satisfaction, American Institute of Legal Counsel
Fellows of the Texas Bar Foundation
Reversal of existing law: Terry Revell v. Morrison Supply Company, LLC, No. 02-15-00195-CV
Judgment awarded for over $1,000,000 for dog bite injuries
Bar Admissions
Texas, 2008
U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas, 2013
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas, 2014
U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas, 2014
Education
Baylor University School of Law, Waco, Texas
J.D. - 2008
Honors: Dean's List
Honors: Chair of the Alumni Committee for Phi Alpha Delta
Honors: Finalist of Naman Howell Smith and Lee Interscholastic Client Counseling Competition
Honors: Coach of National Client Counseling Team
Honors: High A; Family Rights Litigation
Honors: Participant in Strasburger & Price Moot Court Competition
East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
B.A. magna cum laude - 2005
Honors: Dean's List, Chancellor's List
Honors: First Generation College Graduate
Honors: Recipient of Carlton-Troutman Scholarship for Political Science
Honors: Attorney General of the East Carolina University Judicial Board
Honors: Scholar for Council on Legal Education Opportunity
Honors: Treasurer of Phi Alpha Delta
Honors: Member of Gamma Beta Phi
Honors: National Society of Collegiate Scholars
Honors: Member of East Carolina Honors Organization
Honors: Chancellor's List
Honors: Top 10% of Graduating Class
Major: English & Political Science
Published Works
Quarterly Family Law Newsletter, April, 2009
Cemetery of Roses, Nonfiction, Rebel: 47., 2005
Uneaten Birthday Cake, Fiction, Rebel: 47., 2005
At the End of the Dirt Road, Original play performed at Emerge Art Gallery, 2005
Professional Associations and Memberships
Tarrant County Trial Lawyers, President-Elect
Tarrant County Bar Association
Arlington Chamber of Commerce
Professionals Serving Seniors
Tarrant County Probate Bar Association
Arlington Bar Association
BNI, Lake Arlington
