Overview
Brad Allen brings an in-house perspective to creating strategies, building teams, and leading trial lawyers to proactively manage litigation dockets, try cases, and manage risk for corporations. Brad improves processes using Six Sigma principles while also building organizational health.
For over seven years, Brad managed the Texas Staff Counsel Operations for a Fortune 100 company. Brad built a team that reduced fees, cycle time, and expenses through increasing efficiency and improving processes. During Brad’s tenure as Managing Trial Attorney, the Texas operations tripled in size and quadrupled cases handled including property, auto (1st & 3rd party) and minor prove-up claims.
For the same Fortune 100 company, Brad was part of the team that managed a national docket of extra-contractual litigation involving property, auto, and class action cases. For nearly six years, Brad created strategies and managed complex dockets and projects that included:
• Hurricane Ike
• Defective Drywall
• Special Investigative Unit (SIU)
• Corporate Representative Preparation & Presentation
• Chief Legal Office Intern Program
• Veteran Pro Bono Program
• Government & Industry Relations Liaison
Honors & Awards
USAA Legal Volunteer of the Year, 2013
USAA Manager of the Quarter, 2015
President’s Award, Texas Young Lawyer’s Assoc., 2007, 2008 & 2009
President’s Award, Houston Bar Assoc., 2006 & 2007
Cases
Representative Matters
Clients
- Mid-Continent Casualty
Professional Affiliations
Civic
SBOT/SALSA Veterans Advice Clinic
- Pro Bono Volunteer and Team Leader, 2015–Present
St. John Lutheran Church of Boerne
- Coordinator, International Missions to Central America, 2014–Present
- Church Council, 2011–2014 & 2019–2020
- Sunday School Teacher & Confirmation Mentor, 2010–Present
Scouts BSA - Boy Scouts
- Assistant Cubmaster & Den Leader, Cub Scout Pack 233, 2010–2016
- Assistant Scoutmaster, Troop 701, 2013–Present
- Certified Range Safety Officer & Sporting Clays/Skeet Instructor
Baylor University
- Member, Baylor College of Arts & Sciences Board of Advocates
Professional
State Bar of Texas
State Bar of Oklahoma
AV Rated, Martindale-Hubble
Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation, Houston Bar Foundation & HYLA Foundation
San Antonio Bar Association
The Houston Lawyer, Past Editor in Chief
TYLA e-News, Past Editor in Chief
Practice Areas
- Advertising Liability and Personal Injury
- Arson & Fraud Defense
- Auto Insurance (Personal and Commercial)
- Bad Faith Litigation
- Business Torts
- Class Actions
- Class Actions and Mass Torts
- Client Seminars and Supervisor Training
- Commercial General Liability
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Coverage
- Construction Defect Litigation
- Corporate, Partnership, and Securities Litigation
- Coverage Analysis and Advice
- Defense of Errors and Omissions Claims
- Directors’ and Officers Liability
- Employee Discipline
- Employment Contracts
- Employment Documents and Policies
- Energy Litigation
- Environmental Coverages
- Excess and Primary Disputes
- Foundation Damage Claims
- Homeowners’ Coverage
- Human Resource Training
- Hurricane Litigation
- Insurance Coverage & Bad Faith Litigation
- Life, Health, and Disability
- Non-Competition and Confidentiality Agreements
- Personal Injury Defense
- Personal Injury Litigation (Products and Premises Liability)
- Personal Lines Coverage
- Professional Liability
- Professional Liability (Accountants / Architects / Engineers)
- Professional Liability Claims
- Property and Casualty Insurance
- Reinsurance
- Surplus Lines Coverage
- Training and Continuing Education
Credentials
Education
Baylor University School of Law - JD, 1996
Baylor University - BA, Political Science and Government, 1993
Northwest Florida State College - AA, Social Sciences, 1991
Admissions
- All Texas Courts
- United States District Court, Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western District of Texas
Employment
- Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom, L.L.P., October 2021–present
- USAA, 2009–October 2021
- Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom, L.L.P., 2002–2009
- Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., 2000–2002
- John D. Ellis & Associates, 1996–2000