Blaies & Hightower, L.L.P.


Partners/Attorneys

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Gregory P. Blaies

Wesley M. Hightower

Grant D. Blaies


Attorneys

Staci Haigood Collins

Jennifer H. Litke

Tiffany A. Self

Wesley T.D. Myers

Koy R. Killen


Image of Gregory P. BlaiesGREGORY P. BLAIES, born Belleville, Illinois, March 30,1963; admitted to bar, 1988, Texas; U.S. District Court, Northern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas, 1989; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas. Education: Eastern Illinois University; Baylor University; Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England; Baylor University School of Law (J.D., Feb., 1988). Phi Delta Phi. Author: "Rules of Professional Conduct," 1994, National Business Institute Seminar, "Claims Control," 1994-1995, National Business Institute Seminar. Frequent Lecturer. Board Certification: Personal Injury Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization; Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Member: State Bar of Texas; Tarrant County Bar Association; American Bar Association; Texas Association of Defense Counsel; Defense Research Institute; Bar Association of the Fifth Circuit, College of State Bar of Texas. Practice Areas: Civil Trial Law; Personal Injury Law; Health/Managed Care Law; Product Liability/Governmental Liability; Premises Liability Law.

 

E-mail address: gregblaies@bhilaw.com

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Image of Wesley M. HightowerWESLEY M. HIGHTOWER, born Dallas, Texas, January 11, 1960; admitted to bar, 1986, Texas; Former Partner at the Law Firm of Shannon, Gracey, Ratliff & Miller, L.L.P. and Decker, Jones, McMackin, McClane, Hall & Bates, L.L.P.; U.S. District Court, Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas; United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Education: Texas Tech University (B.B.A., 1982; J.D., 1986). Author: "Trying the Automobile Injury Case in Texas," 1999, National Business Institute Seminar. Member: State Bar of Texas; Tarrant County Bar Association; American Bar Association; Tarrant County Association of Defense Counsel; Tarrant County Civil Trial Lawyers Association; Texas Association of Defense Counsel; Defense Research Institute; College of State Bar of Texas. Practice Areas: Personal Injury Law; Employment Law; Premises Liability Law; Workers' Compensation Law.

 

E-mail address: weshightower@bhilaw.com

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Image of Grant D. BlaiesGRANT D. BLAIES, born Belleville, Illinois, September 27, 1967; admitted to bar, 1992, Texas; 1993, U.S. District Court, Northern & Eastern District of Texas. Education: Baylor University (B.B.A., 1990; J.D., cum laude, 1992). Phi Delta Phi. Order of the Barristers. Member, Baylor Law Review. Law Clerk to Hon. Raul A. Gonzalez, Justice, Supreme Court of Texas, 1992-1993. Member: State Bar of Texas; Tarrant County Bar Association; American Bar Association; Defense Research Institute. Practice Areas: Civil Trial Law; Personal Injury Law; Health/Managed Care Law; Governmental Liability; Worker's Compensation Law; Premises Liability Law.

 

E-mail address: grantblaies@bhilaw.com

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Image of Staci A. HaigoodSTACI HAIGOOD COLLINS, born Temple, Texas, June 20, 1969; admitted to bar, 1995, Texas; Education: Texas A&M University (B.B.A., 1991); Baylor University (J.D., 1995). Member: State Bar of Texas; Tarrant County Bar Association; American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Civil Trial Law; Personal Injury Law; Premises Liability Law, Workers' Compensation Law.

 

E-mail address: stacihaigood@bhilaw.com

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Image of Jennifer H. LitkeJENNIFER H. LITKE, born Tulsa, Oklahoma, May 12, 1971; admitted to bar, 1996, Oklahoma and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma; 1997, Texas; 1999, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas; 2000, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas. Education: University of Tulsa (B.A., 1993); University of Tulsa (J.D., with honors, 1996). Phi Delta Phi; Omicron Delta Kappa; Mortar Board. Student Association President, 1992-1993. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Awards in Commercial Law I, Comparative Corporate Law, Decedents' Estates and Trusts, Pretrial Practice and Agency and Partnership. Research Editor, Notes and Comments, Tulsa Law Journal. Author, "Groce v. Foster: Expansion of Oklahoma's Public Policy Exception to the Employment-at-Will Doctrine," 30 Tulsa Law Journal 525. Member, Eldon B. Mahon Chapter, American Inns of Court, 1998-2000; W. Lee Johnson Chapter, American Inns of Court, 1996; Council Oak Chapter, American Inns of Court, 1995. Member: American Bar Association; State Bar of Texas; Tarrant County Bar Association; Fort Worth-Tarrant County Young Lawyers Association (President, 2001; President-Elect, 2000; Vice President, 2000; Secretary, 1999; Treasurer, 1999; Director, 1998); Texas Young Lawyers Association (Director, 2001-2002); Oklahoma Bar Association. Fellow: Texas Bar Foundation; Tarrant County Bar Foundation. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Health/Managed Care Law; Employment Law.

 

E-mail address: jenniferlitke@bhilaw.com

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Image of Tiffany A. SelfTIFFANY A. SELF, born Marshall, Texas, January 9, 1973; admitted to bar, 1999, Texas; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, 2000 Education: University of Texas at Arlington (B.A., 1995); Texas Tech University (J.D., 1999). Member: American Bar Association; American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division; State Bar of Texas; Tarrant County Bar Association; Fort Worth-Tarrant County Young Lawyers Association; Dallas County Bar Association; Dallas Association of Young Lawers; Dallas CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates). Practice Areas: Civil Trial Law; Personal Injury Law.

 

E-mail address: tiffanyself@bhilaw.com

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Image of Wesley T.D. MyersWESLEY T.D. MYERS, born Charlottesville, Virginia, December 27, 1972; admitted to bar, 1998, Texas; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, 1999. Education: University of the South (B.A., cum laude, 1995); St, Catherine’s College, Oxford University; Texas Tech University (J.D. 1998) member Board of Barristers, Class President.  Authored, “An Insurance Carrier’s Duty to Defend and Indemnify a Lawyer in a Legal Malpractice Action,” Legal Research Guides of Texas Tech University.  William S. Hein & Co. 1998.  Briefing attorney to Hon. Brian P. Quinn of the Texas 7th District Court of Appeals, 1998-1999.  Member: State Bar of Texas; College of the State Bar of Texas; Eldon B. Mahon Inns of Court Chapter, American; Tarrant County Bar Association; Fort Worth-Tarrant County Young Lawyers (President Elect/Vice-President, 2003; Secretary/Treasurer, 2002; Director, 2001).  Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Appellate Law; Personal Injury Law, Products Liability, Medical Malpractice.

 

E-mail address: wesmyers@bhilaw.com

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Image of Koy R. KillenKOY R. KILLEN, born Georgetown, Texas, October 24, 1973; admitted to bar, 2001, Texas. Education: Texas A&M University (B.A., cum laude, 1996); University of Texas (J.D. 2001). Member: State Bar of Texas; Tarrant County Bar Association; Fort Worth-Tarrant County Young Lawyers.  Practice Areas: Civil Trial Law; Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury Law.

 

E-mail address: koykillen@bhilaw.com

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