Garrett Gibbins
Mr. Gibbins grew up in Austin, Texas. In high school, he was a standout athlete earning all-state honors in football and track. He then attended Southwestern University, in Georgetown, Texas, where he played football and ran track. He earned all-conference honors. Mr. Gibbins graduated with high honors from Southwestern University while never making below an A- in any course. His undergraduate degree is in business. While at Southwestern, Mr. Gibbins studied abroad in Granada, Spain. There, he instantly fell in love with the lazy afternoons while taking many siestas and gained an advanced proficiency in the Spanish language.
Following his undergraduate studies, Mr. Gibbins attended Texas Tech School of Law, where he again graduated with high honors. In his first couple of years of practice, Mr. Gibbins mainly focused on personal injury plaintiff matters. He gained extensive experience in the courtroom early on in litigating personal injury matters. Mr. Gibbins has extensive experience in handling catastrophic injuries, wrongful death, and survival actions. Mr. Gibbins has litigated cases involving 18-wheeler accidents, car accidents, dog bites, nursing home abuse, carbon monoxide poisoning, products liability, premises liability, oil field explosions, boating accidents, motorcycle accidents, birth injuries, medical malpractice, burn injuries, traumatic brain injuries, and many other types of personal injury cases. In the personal injury arena, Mr. Gibbins has been involved in all aspects of litigation.
Mr. Gibbins not only has extensive experience in personal injury cases but, also, has expertise in the criminal defense arena. Mr. Gibbins has tried numerous jury trials to verdicts and has been involved in cases ranging from a DWI all the way to serious 1st degree felony offenses involving violent crimes. Mr. Gibbins has defended cases involving DWIs, assaults, domestic violence, criminal mischief, robbery, burglary, theft, financial crimes, embezzlement and other white-collar crimes, and just about any other criminal matter imaginable.
Mr. Gibbins believes sincerely that just because an individual is arrested does not make that individual a bad person. Our justice system has a presumption that an individual is “innocent until proven guilty,” not “guilty until proven innocent,” and this is something that Mr. Gibbins strongly believes in. Mr. Gibbins understands that a criminal defense attorney is an individual’s last line of defense before their life, liberty, and freedom is taken away. This is something that Mr. Gibbins does not take lightly. As such, Mr. Gibbins is not afraid to step in to defend any kind of criminal case all the way through a jury trial and beyond. Jury trials excite Mr. Gibbins, as the courtroom is where he feels most at home.
Mr. Gibbins has expertise in the fields of personal injury, criminal defense, wills, trusts and estates, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, business litigation, family law, civil rights violations, police brutality and excessive force, Section 1983 Claims, and just about anything else that involves filing a lawsuit in a civil matter. There is no case that Mr. Gibbins is intimidated by. There is no lawyer that will fight harder for you. Mr. Gibbins also has extensive experience navigating appeals and has even been involved in cases in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Mr. Gibbins currently has a case that is likely to make it to the United States Supreme Court. Most recently, Mr. Gibbins made the national news in a case involving police brutality and excessive force where ABC interviewed him for their top story.
Mr. Gibbins’ grandfather, Bob Gibbins, was a preeminent trial lawyer himself who was president of the American Association for Justice (formerly known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America), director emeritus of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, and president of the Travis County Trial Lawyers Association. Amongst his numerous accolades, he received the first ever lifetime achievement award from the American Association for Justice and the Annual Warhorse Award from the Southern Trial Lawyers Association. Notable Warhorse Award winners from Texas were Scott Baldwin, Joe Jamail, Howard Nations, and Broadus Spivey (Bob Gibbins’ partner at the prominent law firm of Gibbins & Spivey). He represented Dallas socialite Priscilla Davis in a sensational civil trial against her former husband, oil tycoon Cullen Davis in a wrongful death suit in which she alleged Davis killed her boyfriend and 12-year old daughter in 1976. This was after Richard “Race Horse” Haynes got Davis acquitted following his criminal trial. In addition to this trial, Bob Gibbins tried hundreds of other cases to verdict. The University of Texas School of Law honored him with its institution of the “Bob Gibbins Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Law.” Mr. Gibbins is proud to come from such a long pedigree of trial lawyers and strives to honor the legacy that his grandfather left behind.
Memberships & Organizations:
American Association for Justice (formerly known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America);
Texas Trial Lawyers Association;
Southern Trial Lawyers Association;
Houston Trial Lawyers Association;
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Associations
Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association
Montgomery County Bar Association
National Trial Lawyers Association
American Institute of Trial Lawyers
Licensed to Practice Law In all courts in the following states:
Texas
South Carolina
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Colorado
Illinois
Tennessee Licensure Pending
Admitted to practice in the following federal courts:
United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
United States Supreme Court Licensure Pending
Awards:
Who’s Who in American Law
Top 40 Attorneys under the age of 40 by the National Trial Lawyers Association
Top 40 Attorneys under the age of 40 by the American Institute of Trial Lawyers
