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Ross Sears is an award-winning attorney and co-founder of Sears Crawford LLP in Houston, Texas. Ross Sears’s passion and respect for the law and legal ethics runs deep. Born and raised in Houston by a family of attorneys, Ross Sears has been practicing law for more than 30 years and has earned numerous awards and distinctions during this time, including “Texas Super Lawyer” (every year for the past 10 years) and “Houston’s Best Lawyers for the People”, as well as being a member of the “Million Dollar Advocates Forum” and the “Multi-million Dollar Advocates Forum”. Ross is Board Certified in Personal Injury Law (which includes legal malpractice) by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He primarily focuses on legal malpractice and serious personal injury cases.

Education

• University of Houston Law Center (J.D., 1991)
• University of Houston (B.S. Psychology, 1988)

Awards/Accolades

• Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by Texas Board of Legal Specialization
• Voted “Texas Super Lawyer” by Texas Lawyer Magazine (2011-Present)
• Received one of the top Texas Verdicts (#11) for Breach of Contract Cases (2011)
• Voted “One of Houston’s Best Lawyers for the people” by Houston Magazine “H Texas” (2004-2006)
• Member “Multi-million Dollar Advocates Forum” (2004 – Present)
• Who’s Who in American Law (2000)
• Selected as 1 of the Top 100 Civil Attorneys in Texas by The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 (2019)
• Awarded the AV Preeminent Distinguished and Notable Rating by Martindale Hubble, selected through peer reviews.

Published Cases

• Texas Court of Appeals
• Dan Kelly and Laura Hofstatter vs. General Interior Construction, Inc. (2009 WL 4823931)
• Harris County vs. Estate of Ciccia, 125 S.W.3d 749 (Tex. App. – Houston [1st Dist.] 2003)
• City of Houston vs. Rushing, 7 S.W.3d 909 (Tex. App. – Houston [1st Dist.] 1999)
• Dr. George N. Stokes vs. Lauri Puckett, Deann Carleton and Cheryl Shirley, 972 S.W.2d 921 (Tex. App. – Beaumont 1998, writ filed)
• Royston, Rayzor, Vickery & Williams, L.L.P. v. Lopez (In Re Royston, Rayzor, Vickery & Williams, LLP) Royston, Rayzor, Vickery & Williams, L.L.P. v. Lopez (In re Royston, Rayzor, Vickery & Williams, LLP), 443 S.W.3d 196 (Tex. App. 2013)
• Starwood Management LLC By and Through Norma Gonzalez, Petitioner v. Don Swaim and Rose Walker, Respondents (Tex. App. 2018)

Professional Associations

• Association of Trial Lawyers of America
• State Bar of Texas
• Houston Bar Association
• Licensed to Practice Law in Texas, and the following:
• United States District Court, Southern District
• United States District Court, Eastern District
  
• American Board of Trial Advocates