RAMEY CHANDLER QUINN, P.C. - Key Persons
Andrew Myint is a native Texan and Houston transplant originally from Dallas. Andrew obtained his Bachelor of Science in Economics from Texas A&M University; and earned his Juris Doctor from South Texas College of Law.
Throughout his practice, Andrew has represented both individuals and corporations as both Plaintiffs and Defendants. Andrew's focus during the last several years has focused on representing clients in construction defect, breach of contract, and personal injury disputes as insurance defense counsel.
Andrew's litigation experience includes getting a directed verdict in Texas State District Court in favor of client for alleged water code violations, and receiving a complete defense award and prevailing on counterclaim for breach of contract in an arbitration claim where claimant sought over $50 million in damages.
In his free time, Andrew enjoys spending time with wife and son, watching Aggie football, and exploring Houston's culinary and craft brewery scene.
Ben Roeder is a native Texan originally from Corpus Christi. Ben graduated from the University of Houston and earned his Juris Doctor from South Texas College of Law.
Ben has devoted his entire legal career to representing insurance companies and their insureds primarily in motor vehicle and premises liability litigation.
In his spare time, Ben enjoys running half-marathons, and following his Houston Cougars sports teams.
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Brian has been a trial lawyer since being licensed to practice law in 1981. Since then, he has tried more than 250 jury cases to verdict. He is experienced in handling a wide range of civil litigation matters and has successfully defended clients in lawsuits involving multiple deaths, catastrophic injuries, and first-party insurance disputes. Brian is actively involved in all aspects of the litigation and appellate process; he has litigated cases in state and federal courts throughout the State of Texas, with two of his cases denied certiorari to the United States Supreme Court and several cases brought before the Supreme Court of Texas, the most recent of which was handed down in 2017 and was a landmark decision regarding the scope of discovery for electronically stored information in civil litigation.
Brian has successfully defended clients in cases involving complex legal and factual issues. His current areas of practice include general torts, products liability, employment, commercial, premises liability, and the defense of transportation companies and their drivers.
Over the past few years, Brian has litigated a significant number of first-party insurance cases involving contractual and extra-contractual causes of action against the insurance carrier. Brian is particularly experienced in handling cases in mass litigation stemming from catastrophic weather events, which he began doing in 1983 with Hurricane Alicia cases. Since then, he handled Hurricane Rita cases and was appointed as liaison counsel for Hurricane Ike cases and cases arising out of the hail storms in the Rio Grande Valley in 2012.
Brian's success is due in part to his commitment to understanding his client's needs generally and with respect to the specific case at hand. He has developed long-terms relationships with many clients, some of which date back to his early years of practicing law - a testament to his client-first approach.
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Lingafelter v. Shupe, 192 S.W.3d 577 (Tex. 2006) (PI-Auto). Reversed court of appeals, which had reversed a defense verdict for refusal to submit negligent entrustment, even though jury found driver not negligent. Any error was harmless.
State Farm Lloyds v. Vaughan, 968 S.W.2d 931 (Tex. 1998) (Insurance coverage-general). A significant decision that reversed court of appeals and reinstated summary judgment for insurer. Registered child care provider's regular abandonment of small children to run errands was not within exception to business exclusion for acts "ordinarily incidental to non-business pursuits." Court distinguished State Farm v. Reed re: similar issue.
Timberwalk Apartments, Partners, Inc. v. Cain, 972 S.W.2d 749 (Tex. 1998) (Premises liability-security). A landmark decision that reversed court of appeals and reinstated jury verdict for apartment complex. Rejected alleged liability based upon inadequate security and failure to prevent serial rapist's attack. Declared new standard for liability in premises security lawsuits.
Trinity Universal Ins. Co. v. Cowan, 945 S.W.2d 819, 40 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 583 (Tex. 1997) (Insurance coverage-general) A significant decision that reversed court of appeals and reinstated summary judgment for insurer. Registered child care provider's regular abandonment of small children to run errands was not within exception to business exclusion for acts "ordinarily incidental to non-business pursuits." Court distinguished State Farm v. Reed re: similar issue.
Jack has practiced almost exclusively in the areas of coverage and appellate law since 1990, except for the occasional foray into civil rights defense or commercial litigation. He is a 1979 graduate of the University of Texas School of law and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Texas. Jack is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Jack joined the firm in 2000, having been a longstanding partner with Brian Chandler since 1981 at a prior law firm.
Jack was a board certified personal injury trial lawyer in the 1980s, including maritime and civil rights lawsuits, but left that field in 1990 for an insurance coverage and appellate practice. Jack's work since 1990 has consisted of writing coverage opinions, litigating coverage and extra-contractual lawsuits, and handling appeals. His extra-contractual lawsuits are primarily third party-defending an insurer in a dispute over the existence of liability coverage. Jack has tried at least 30 lawsuits, handled almost 50 appeals, and written or edited more than 1,000 coverage opinions. He seeks to avoid trial via summary judgment yet-unlike many coverage lawyers-he has extensive and successful trial experience.
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Jill has practiced commercial litigation, civil litigation, employment law and insurance defense since 1993. She joined our firm in 2003, bringing with her a broad background of defense litigation. Jill has tried numerous cases and has received favorable verdicts in state and federal court. Jill is also a Certified Mediator.
Kyle Chandler graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from Louisiana State University, where he double majored in German and English with a focus on critical theory. While at LSU, Kyle was active in multiple student organizations, including Student Government Senate, where he was the Vice-Chairman of the Housing, Infrastructure, and Technology Committee, and as a member of the College Council. Kyle also spent a year studying at a top-ten university in Germany, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
Kyle took two years off after college to work for a Houston area mediator, where he was exposed to a wide range of litigation, prior to attending the University of Houston Law Center. While in law school, he served as Executive Editor of the International Law Journal, overseeing all aspects of editing articles in preparation for publication and managing sixty law students. He also served as a student justice on the Honor Court, which adjudicates violations of the honor code. Kyle graduated law school in the top third of his class.
Kyle has worked in various positions in the legal field since his first job as a file clerk in 2005. He began working full time for Ramey, Chandler, Quinn & Zito, PC after graduating law school in 2016. Since becoming licensed to practice, Kyle's work has focused on first- and third-party insurance defense, as well handling matters involving business disputes, commercial liability, and premises liability.
Lance brings 35 years of experience handling complex commercial and personal injury litigation throughout Texas and Louisiana, with in excess of 75 jury verdicts and numerous appeals. He has successfully represented clients in professional liability, personal injury, first-party bad faith, transportation, products liability, premises liability and commercial litigation and arbitration. As part of his practice to better represent his clients, he has become a committed and enthusiastic student of subjects as diverse as medicine, accounting, construction, engineering and technology in the courtroom. His training as a mediator provides additional insight for his clients in mediation and arbitration. He has written and spoken at continuing legal education programs and before transportation companies, trade associations, insurance companies and a variety of professional organizations.
Lance has played guitar since high school. Since that time, he has acquired quite a collection of acoustic and electric guitars and puts them to use in a small recording studio in his house. During college football season, he can be found in the kitchen making gumbo, jambalaya or etouffee before L.S.U. games.
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Bob has defended a variety of high-dollar exposure lawsuits over the past 30 years, from simple automobile cases to wrongful death trucking accidents, products liability, dental malpractice, medical malpractice, toxic torts, commercial disputes, premises liability and sexual assaults and has taken more than 200 jury verdicts.
Bob Ramey and Brian Chandler established Ramey & Chandler, P.C. in 1998. Following the addition of Jack McKinley in June 2000 and Nick Zito in May, 2001, Ramey, Chandler, McKinley & Zito, P.C. was established. Wade Quinn joined the firm in October 2009. On January 1, 2012, we became Ramey, Chandler, Quinn & Zito, P.C.
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Wade is a trial lawyer with over 30 years of courtroom experience. He handles a wide variety of civil litigation including professional liability, transportation and railroad litigation, products liability, premises-liability and personal-injury matters, construction litigation, real estate litigation, insurance disputes, and commercial litigation. His trial experience includes wide-ranging disputes from medical negligence to officers and directors liability, products liability to railroad accidents, premises liability to construction defect matters, and bank fraud to bad-faith liability, to name a few. He has been elected by his peers to Associate Membership in the American Board of Trial Advocates. He has written and lectured for various continuing legal education programs in the State of Texas, as well as for the insurance, transportation, construction, commercial property, medical, legal and professional industries.
A native Houstonian, Wade and his wife Andrea have two grown sons, Christian and Colin. He is an avid follower of Houston Astros baseball and Texas Tech sports.