Joseph A. (Tony) Rodriguez
Partner
Location: | Brownsville, Texas |
Phone: | 956-542-7441 |
866-330-6805 | |
Fax: | 956-541-2170 |
Email: | Email Me |
V-Card: | Download V-Card |
Areas of Practice
- Personal Injury Defense
- Products Liability Litigation
- Trial Practice
- Civil Litigation
- Construction Defect Defense
- Railroad Defense
- First Party Litigation
- Insurance Defense
- Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Oil Field Accidents Defense
- Trucking Industry Defense
Bar Admissions
- Texas, 1987
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas, 1987
- U.S. District Court Western District of Texas, 2001
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 1988
Education
- University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas
- J.D. – 1987
- Honors: Dean, Delta Theta Phi Legal Fraternity, 1986-1987
- University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana
- B.B.A. – 1984
Professional Associations and Memberships
- American Bar Association
- American Board of Trial Advocacy, Associate
- American Bar Foundation, Life Fellow
- American Board of Trial Advocacy
- Associate and American Bar Foundation
- Cameron County Bar Association, Board of Directors, 2011 – 2014
- Federal Bar Association, Southern District Of Texas Chapter Brownsville Division Board Representative, South Texas CLE Program Committee
- Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, Diversity Committee
- Hidalgo County Bar Association
- Leadership Brownsville, Class IX Graduate
- Leadership Brownsville, Board of Directors
- National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel
- State Bar of Texas
- Texas Association of Defense Counsel, Former District 15 Director, 2010 – 2014
- Texas Association of Defense Counsel, Legislative, Membership and Young Lawyers Committees, Past Member
- Texas Bar Foundation, Life Fellow
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Attorney Admission Fund Committee, 2010 – Present
Past Employment Positions
- Hon. Filemon B. Vela, U.S. District Judge, Southern District of Texas, Brownsville Division, Briefing Attorney, 1987 – 1989
Languages
- Spanish
Fraternities/Sororities
- Delta Theta Phi