For more than 37 years Earl Drott Law has represented individuals and families in Tyler, Longview and the surrounding East Texas area in connection with serious personal injury and wrongful death cases.
A veteran of many successful trials he has personally handled thousands of individual cases for his clients.
Earl Drott is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law and has been selected to the Texas Super Lawyers, The National Top 100 Trial Lawyers, the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and the exclusive American Board of Trial Advocates. He is widely known as a zealous advocate and a lawyer who simply won't back down from an insurance company. His unbending approach to the practice of law has resulted in the recovery of many millions of dollars for his clients.
The firm specializes in motorcycle, auto and trucking accident cases but also has extensive experience handling industrial accidents involving construction, the oilfield, and warehouses as well as personal liability cases involving sexual abuse, spousal abuse, dog attacks, and premises liability.
- The University of Texas School of Law
- J.D.
- Honors: National Mock Trial Team
- Activities: Texas Law Review
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- Oral Roberts University
- B.S. (1980) | Business Administration
- Honors: Business Administration cum laude
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- Earl Drott Law
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- Bailey, Negem, Patterson & Drott
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- Potter, Guinn, Minton, Roberts & Davis
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- Compensating the Sexual Molestation Victim Under the Texas Homeowner's Policy
- Texas Trial Lawyers Forum
- Compensating the Sexually Abused Child: Homeowner's Policy Can Provide Funds for Treatment
- American Trial Lawyers Association Trial
- Minimizing the Effect of a Medical Malpractice Claim
- East Texas Medicine
- The Doctrine of Parental Immunity in Sexual Abuse Cases: The Last Throes of a Texas Dinosaur
- Texas Trial Lawyers Forum
- Personal Injury Trial Law
- Texas State Bar
- Super Lawyer
- Texas Super Lawyers
- 2011, 2012
- Selected
- American Board of Trial Advocates
- Life Member
- Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- Life Member
- Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- Texas State Bar # 06134750
- Member
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- College of the State Bar of Texas
- Past Member
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- National Board of Trial Advocacy
- Past Member
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- East Texas Woods and Waters Foundation
- Founding Director
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- Texas Trial Lawyers Association
- Director
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- East Texas Trial Lawyers Association
- Member
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- American Association for Justice
- Member
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- Smith County Bar Association
- Member
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- Smith County Bar Foundation
- Charter Fellow
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- Texas
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- 5th Circuit
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- U.S. Supreme Court
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- Free Consultation
- Contingent Fees
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Insurance Claims
- Bad Faith Insurance, Business Insurance, Disability Insurance, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Motor Vehicle Insurance, Property Insurance
- Products Liability
- Drugs & Medical Devices, Motor Vehicle Defects, Toxic Torts
- Auto Accidents
- Trucking Accidents
- Oilfield Accidents
- Industrial Accidents
- Motorcycle Accidents
- English: Spoken, Written