Joseph A. (Tony) Rodriguez

Partner

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