Jason English grew up in his dad’s personal injury law practice in Tarrant County, graduated from Texas A&M before getting his law degree from St. Mary’s University School of Law. Initially, he worked in his father’s firm on personal injury, wills, and probate, as well as, family law cases. Soon thereafter he took his father’s advice and worked as a prosecutor to obtain trial expertise.
Jason English was an Assistant District Attorney with the Travis County District Attorney’s Office in Austin, Texas from 2007-2017. The Travis County District Attorney’s Office has jurisdiction over felony offenses. Mr. English was a prosecutor in Texas 2002-2017, working at the Cameron County Criminal District Attorney’s Office in Brownsville, TX and at the Hays County District Attorney’s Office in San Marcos, Texas.
Upon joining Travis County District Attorney’s Office in 2007, he was assigned to various courts before being assigned to the Special Prosecution Division’s Public Integrity Unit handling white-collar crimes committed against state agencies or crimes committed by state officials. He had been the Strategic Prosecution Unit’s Community Prosecutor working as the liaison between the DA’s Office, Austin Police Department, and the community. During this time he was assigned to address special issues or top offenders affecting the community, as well as, advising the Austin Police Department regarding felony cases and sting operations. The work included various initiatives such as an enhanced prosecution initiative, as well as, implementing a Drug Market Initiative following the High Point Model.
Prior to leaving prosecution, he had been over various diversion programs for the Travis County District Attorney’s Office, specifically handling the Mental Health Docket and the Veterans Court. After 15 great years as a prosecutor, he has returned full circle to handling personal injury, will and probate cases, as well as, practicing criminal defense.
- St. Mary's University School of Law
- Doctor of Jurisprudence/Juris Doctor (J.D.) (2001)
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- Texas A&M University - College Station
- B.A. (1997)
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- Founder and Partner
- Jason S. English Law, PLLC
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- Focusing on personal injury, probate and criminal cases in Texas.
- Assistant District Attorney - Special Prosecutions
- Travis County District Attorney's Office
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- • Community Prosecutor and Liaison with the Austin Police Department and members of community. • Prosecute Public Officials, Public Corruption, and White Collar Crime for the Public Integrity Unit. • Implement Drug Market Initiative at 12th/Chicon to rehabilitate drug blighted community and divert and rehabilitate drug dealers without incarceration but with community partnerships. • Advise and Coordinate with the Austin Police Department on special problems and resulting initiatives. • Coordinate the prosecution of felony offenders with law enforcement agencies. • Represent Travis County District Attorney’s Office at local, state, and federal meetings. • First-Chair felony prosecution; beginning with voir dire and ending with closing arguments. • Present indictments to the Grand Jury.
- Assistant District Attorney
- Hays County District Attorney's Office
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- • First-Chair felony prosecution; beginning with voir dire and ending with closing arguments. • Present indictments to the Grand Jury. • Defend convictions on appeal, as well as, submit briefs in the prosecution of the State’s limited right to appeal. • Advise and manage four attorneys and a court docket of 4,000+ cases, as Chief of the Hays County District Attorney’s Office Misdemeanor Division. • Lecturer at Citizen’s Police Academy for both Hays County Sheriff’s Office and San Marcos Police Department, as well as, presenter at San Marcos High School.
- Assistant District Attorney
- Cameron County District Attorney's Office
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- Prosecuted Misdemeanor and Felony Criminal Cases, • Establish probable cause for arrests at preliminary hearings, and request appropriate bond amounts. • Argue before magistrates and judges to secure protective orders for victims of domestic violence.
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- Law Offices of Harold English
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- Handled personal injury, family law, as well as, wills and probate cases in Tarrant County, Texas.
- Criminal Law
- Hays County Sheriff's Department Citizen Police Academy
- Implementing HiPoint Model of the Drug Market Initiative, Drug Market Initiative
- Top 100 Attorneys in Criminal Defense
- The National Trial Lawyers
- Top Attorneys 2021
- Austin Monthly
- Criminal Defense
- Sheep Dog Award
- Fifth Street Community - Austin Texas
- For protecting citizen and business interests downtown.
- Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer Association
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- Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer Association
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- Hays County Bar Association
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- College of the State Bar of Texas
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- Texas State Bar # 24032155
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- Texas
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- Free Consultation
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Contingent Fees
- DUI & DWI
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Wills
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Appeals, Drug Crimes, Expungement, Fraud, Gun Crimes, Internet Crimes, Sex Crimes, Theft, Violent Crimes
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Probate
- Probate Administration, Probate Litigation, Will Contests
- White Collar Crime
- English: Spoken, Written
- Spanish: Spoken
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