Garrett Gibbins

Garrett Gibbins grew up in Austin, Texas, where he was a standout multi-sport athlete earning all-state honors in both football and track. He attended Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, on an athletic scholarship, competing in football and track and earning all-conference honors. He graduated with high honors — never receiving below an A- in any course — earning his undergraduate degree in Business. While at Southwestern, Mr. Gibbins studied abroad in Granada, Spain, where he 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. He quickly built extensive courtroom experience in personal injury plaintiff matters early in his career, and over time has handled catastrophic injuries, wrongful death, and survival actions across a wide range of case types: 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 more. In the personal injury arena, Mr. Gibbins has been involved in every aspect of litigation.

Beyond personal injury, Mr. Gibbins has extensive expertise in criminal defense, having tried numerous jury trials to verdict in cases ranging from DWI to serious first-degree felony offenses involving violent crimes. He has defended clients facing DWIs, assaults, domestic violence, criminal mischief, robbery, burglary, theft, financial crimes, embezzlement, white-collar offenses, and virtually every other criminal matter. Mr. Gibbins sincerely believes in the presumption of innocence — that an arrest does not make a person a bad person — and understands that a criminal defense attorney is the last line of defense before a client’s life, liberty, and freedom are at stake. The courtroom is where he feels most at home.

Mr. Gibbins’ areas of expertise extend to wills, trusts and estates, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, business litigation, family law, civil rights violations, police brutality and excessive force, and Section 1983 claims. He has extensive experience navigating appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and currently has a matter that may reach the United States Supreme Court. Most recently, Mr. Gibbins was featured nationally when ABC interviewed him as part of their top story on a police brutality and excessive force case.

Mr. Gibbins’ grandfather, Bob Gibbins, was a preeminent trial lawyer — president of the American Association for Justice (formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America), director emeritus of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, and president of the Travis County Trial Lawyers Association. Among his many accolades, Bob Gibbins received the first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association for Justice and the Annual Warhorse Award from the Southern Trial Lawyers Association — an award shared by legends such as Scott Baldwin, Joe Jamail, Howard Nations, and Broadus Spivey, Bob’s partner at the prominent firm of Gibbins & Spivey. Bob Gibbins represented Dallas socialite Priscilla Davis in a landmark civil wrongful death suit against oil tycoon Cullen Davis following the 1976 killings of her boyfriend and 12-year-old daughter — after Richard “Racehorse” Haynes secured Davis’s criminal acquittal. The University of Texas School of Law honored him with the “Bob Gibbins Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Law.” Garrett Gibbins is proud of this legacy and strives every day to honor it.