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The Willis Law Firm is based in Houston, Texas with a strong national presence and recognition. With 35+ years of personal injury & product liability experience, Mr. Willis has gained a national reputation as a leading personal injury lawyer in the United States. Mr Willis is a Board Certified Personal Injury Trial Lawyer since 1988. Mr. Willis is also an AV+ Rated Lawyer, the Highest Rating by his Peers. Mr. Willis has represented 1000's of clients over the last 35+ years on cases involving drug cases, medical devices involving Fen Phen, Paxil, Baycol, Ephedra (ma huang), Zyprexa, Rezulin, PPA, Vioxx, Elidel, Bextra and numerous other serious injury, leukemia / benzene exposure, silica dust exposure / silicosis, ethylene oxide exposure, asbestos exposure / mesothelioma, drug and pharmaceutical injury lawsuits serious medical negligence, birthing injuries, cerebral palsy, birth defects, brain damage, electrical and thermal burns, pancreatic cancer, liver cancer, lung damage, heart damage, paralysis, anoxic brain damage, spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries and wrongful death suits against foreign and domestic pharmaceutical manufacturers, chemical plants and other corporate entities.

Mr. Willis and his personal injury law firm are committed to representing seriously injured people and their families. Mr. Willis was born and raised in Texas. He graduated from Baylor University in 1978 and then went on to graduate from the South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas in 1982. Mr. Willis served as a Briefing Attorney on the Supreme Court of Texas for the Honorable Robert M.Campbell in Austin, Texas until 1984, when he began to practice plaintiff's personal injury law in Houston. In 1992, Mr. Willis founded Willis & Associates, a personal injury law firm with heavy emphasis in birth injuries, medical malpractice, drug liability and products liability litigation.

Mr. Willis' educational, career and legal background include:

Board Certified Personal Injury Trial Lawyer

Mr. Willis has the distinction of being a Board Certified Personal Injury Trial Lawyer, certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1988. This legal certification by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization identifies an attorney who has been recognized as having extensive knowledge and actual experience trying a prescribed number of personal injury cases to a jury verdict. In order to be Board Certified, Mr. Willis had to pass strict testing and qualification requirements to demonstrate his knowledge of the law of evidence, procedure and other areas of substantive law in the trial of civil cases. Less than 2% of all Texas attorneys have earned this important certification in Personal Injury Trial Law.

Recognitions and Awards

In 2014 David Willis was honored by the Baylor Autism Research Center's Award for his Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Autism.

In 1997, Mr. Willis was involved in one of the nation's first Firestone ATX Radial Tread / Belt Separation and Ford Explorer rollover cases which occurred in Texas. A products liability lawsuit was filed in 1998 against Ford and Firestone due to the Ford Explorer going out of control and rolling after the back left Firestone ATX radial tire's tread came off. After a long battle with Ford and Firestone a very significant confidential settlement was reached by all parties. On July 17, 2001 Mr. Willis was recognized as one of a very select group of products liability attorneys in the nation and was awarded the prestigious Steven J. Sharp Public Service Award for his contributions in investigating and gathering evidence pertaining to tire belt separation and vehicle rollovers in Firestone Tire and Ford Explorer Cases. For more information regharding these tire failures and the response by Willis and others, please visit the tire defects website. The efforts by these selected attorneys and others helped lead to the largest recall in U.S. history. This award was presented to Mr. Willis by the President of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA).

Autism Award Presented to Attorney David P. Willis

This award was given to Attorney David Willis for his leadership, help and support with the Baylor University Autism Resource Center. With many years of working on 100's of lawsuits for parents with children with congenital birth defects, cerebral palsy and spina bifida and with having two members of his extended family with cerebral palsy and other birth injuries, Willis has a unique respect and understanding as to the daily struggles of not only the affected child, but the stresses that brings to the parents, the marital relationship, conflicts with the siblings and financial hardships and sacrifices on the entire family.