Our National Birth Injury Legal Team Focuses on Your Needs
At Miller Weisbrod Olesky, the attorneys, nurses, and staff understand that parents of children with birth injuries feel overwhelmed. So, every client has the attention and support of a team of trained, compassionate professionals. But we don’t just offer compassion.
Miller Weisbrod Olesky is a nationally-recognized birth injury law firm. We represent children whose birth injury is caused by medical errors throughout the United States.
With the recovery that Miller Weisbrod made for our son, I feel like our voice was heard in a sense of what can possibly go wrong in a delivery and finding us answers. I feel with our settlement, we are now in a comfortable position to provide for our son. Things are different because he's able to be in his own space. He's developing well. He is starting to speak a little bit more and live a bit more independently. He is also in school full-time and he gets help from his nurse aid that helps him with all his appointments, all his therapy. Pretty much, I feel like it kind of helped us in a good way. I feel like they care about your personal needs and how to make you comfortable in any situation.
Lyric, C.
Mother of Miller Weisbrod Olesky Client
Recent Birth Injury Settlement:
Birth Injury settlement against a hospital in which nurses and physicians failed to properly monitor the mother's blood pressure during delivery causing an HIE event resulting in neonatal seizures and cerebral palsy at birth. Our national birth injury lawyers recovered $13,750,000 for the family to help with future medical expenses and developmental therapy.
Birth injury litigation is complex.
Parents facing an uncertain future because their child sustained a birth injury need answers. They want to know:
What happened?
Why it happened?
Who is responsible?
How they will pay for their child’s current and future medical treatments and therapies?
Miller Weisbrod Olesky’s birth trauma attorneys are ready for the challenge.
Once you hire our law firm, we thoroughly investigate the facts of your child’s birth to determine how and why your child suffered a birth injury. If we determine that medical negligence of either the doctors, nurses or hospital contributed to the injury, we seek legal justice for you and your child by filing a lawsuit. While the vast majority of birth injury lawsuits we file result in a pre-trial settlement, we work the case to be prepared to go to trial.
And remember that we handle claims on a contingency basis. That means we only get paid when we win the case for you. Please call to schedule a free consultation or use our convenient online contact form.
Miller Weisbrod Olesky is different from most law firms. We provide help NOW.
Many attorneys focus only on pursuing their client’s legal case. But something sets Miller Weisbrod Olesky apart. At Miller Weisbrod Olesky, we know your child needs help today – not just when your birth injury lawsuit is settled. We have a team focused on helping our clients NOW when they need it most.
We know that children with birth injuries like hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) and cerebral palsy often require intense therapy, specialized medical treatment, and assistive care. The stress of providing for a birth injured child’s needs can be both emotionally and financially draining.
But just ‘knowing’ this is not enough. We act on this knowledge by providing exceptional services to birth-injured children and their families.
While Miller Weisbrod Olesky’s birth injury attorneys aggressively prepare each legal case, another department goes into action to help the families of children we represent. Led by a nurse-attorney, this department acts as a medical case manager for our birth injury clients by:
Regularly monitoring the child’s medical treatment status,
Helping facilitate medical treatment and therapy, and
Arranging transportation and services.
Where necessary, we also help families locate local medical providers specializing in the care and treatment of children who have suffered a birth injury. With Miller Weisbrod Olesky, you’re not just a ‘case’. And that’s important when you’re looking for a lawyer who can help you cope with your child’s needs today.
Registered Nurses and Nurse-Attorneys Are a Vital Part of Our Birth Injury Team … and Yours
Most national birth injury law firms will employ one or two nurses to assist the review of cases and medical research. But Miller Weisbrod Olesky offers an unmatched number of nurses and nurse-attorney employees support to both the birth injury attorneys and our clients.
Our team of registered nursing staff and nurse-attorneys bring a deep level of medical and personal insight to every client’s case. Our nursing team includes both an experienced labor and delivery nurse as well as an ICU nurse. Working closely with the rest of the team, they investigate the reasons behind a birth injury and how medical professionals breached their standard of care.
Meet our Legal Nursing Team
Linda Chalk
As a registered nurse, Linda practiced ICU nursing for 44 years while caring for a wide range of patient conditions. She has worked closely with founding partner Les Weisbrod for over 30 years, investigating and pursuing birth injury cases.
Along with DJ Weisbrod, Linda heads up the firm’s birth injury intake, screening, and medical literature research team. She personally screens all potential cases to ensure that medical issues have been addressed before we file lawsuits on behalf of birth-injured children and their families.
DJ Weisbrod
Before joining Miller Weisbrod Olesky, DJ practiced as a surgical nurse in various hospital and operative settings. She has been with the firm over 30 years.
DJ directs Miller Weisbrod Olesky’s birth injury intake and medical screening team. She has also served as firm founder Les Weisbrod’s trial nurse for all cases involving medical negligence and birth injury.
Linda Cuaderes
Linda Cuaderes is both a registered nurse and a licensed lawyer. Linda works exclusively in Miller Weisbrod Olesky’s Birth Injury and Medical Malpractice section. Linda acts as the firm’s patient advocate and liaison with our young clients and their parents.
Linda combines her legal and nursing experience along with her exceptional organizational talent and attention to detail to make sure each child we represent is provided the highest level of medical care and attendant care during the pendency of their case. Linda communicates with our parent clients regularly to monitor their birth injured child’s treatment, provide guidance as to additional care and therapies and when necessary assist them in obtaining specialized medical providers.
Linda was raised in Bartlesville, Oklahoma and completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing with Honors at the University of Oklahoma. She started as an Oncology Nurse at Presbyterian Hospital in Oklahoma City, quickly becoming the Assistant Head Nurse of the Outpatient Endoscopy Unit. Linda then entered the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
She is admitted to practice before the Texas Supreme Court and routinely works on cases pending throughout the United States. Linda has worked with child victims of birth injury, their parents and other victims of medical malpractice in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Iowa, Ohio, New York, Alabama, Georgia, Arizona, Utah and Missouri.
Education
University of Oklahoma - School of Law, 1990, J.D. - Norman, Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma - School of Nursing, 1985 - Norman, Oklahoma
Bar Admissions
Texas - 1990
Areas of Practice
Birth Injury/Birth Trauma
Medical Malpractice
Associations & Memberships
Texas Bar Association
American Association of Justice
Texas Trial Lawyers Association
Dallas Trial Lawyers Association
Kristin Jones
Kristin combines her medical and legal training to provide invaluable, passionate service to parents struggling to care for their birth-injured children.
Families often have questions as they go through the birth injury lawsuit process. Kristin diligently identifies and investigates all medical issues so the birth injury attorneys at Miller Weisbrod Olesky can answer those questions Kristin ensures that our birth injured children’s medical records are thoroughly reviewed and organized. Miller Weisbrod Olesky’s birth trauma litigation attorneys and medical experts retained by the firm need her services while pursuing justice for our clients.
Kelly Kunkel
Kelly Kunkel was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. She has 15 years’ experience in hospital based High Risk Obstetrics and Labor and Delivery bedside nursing care. Kelly graduated with an Associate’s Degree in Nursing from El Centro College in December of 1990 and received her Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from West Texas A & M University in 2008; graduating with honors.
In addition, Kelly has over 25 years’ experience in medical malpractice case management and litigation and has worked with David Olesky for over 22 years. After many years of assisting in defending healthcare providers and hospital systems in medical malpractice cases involving complex litigation matters related to birth injury, catastrophic injury and death, Kelly has proudly joined David Olesky in the national birth injury and medical negligence practice at Miller Weisbrod Olesky.
Our Birth Injury Attorneys Are Dedicated to Helping You and Your Child
Representing Birth Injury Victims across the United States
In his 40 years of law practice, Les Weisbrod has achieved a clear track record of success representing the families of children with birth injuries. His driving passion focuses on improving the lives of children that have suffered a brain injury or birth injury caused by medical malpractice.
Les was dubbed the “pit bull of Texas medical malpractice” for his reputation as a relentless legal warrior for his clients.
Les Weisbrod has obtained more medical malpractice punitive damage jury verdicts for his clients than any other attorney in the United States.
- Michael Rustad: Professor of Law; Suffolk University, Boston
Les leads a team of Miller Weisbrod Olesky lawyers dedicated to children injured at or shortly after a child’s birth. Their practice is national and not limited to Texas families. In fact, Les has personally resolved birth injury and medical malpractice lawsuits in twenty different states.
Les Weisbrod's Dedication to His Clients
To educate and train other lawyers on how best to manage birth injury lawsuits, Les co-founded the Birth Trauma Litigation group in 1989. Members of this leading trial lawyer organization meet multiple times a year. Medical doctors also attend to help educate lawyers from across the country in birth injury and birth trauma.
Les actively works to improve the skills of other attorneys in their representation of birth injury clients. By speaking to national and international organizations about birth injury, medical negligence, and trial tactics, he continues to raise the bar for his colleagues and himself.
Over the years, Les and his law partners have built a firm uniquely designed to pursue compensation for birth injury victims aggressively and successfully.
Dear Les,
I’ve been thinking about what my situation would be had you not rescued me. I am more thankful everyday for you and your marvelous team. Charge on to save others with the wings of eagles. - Thank you my friend, Kathy M.
Miller Weisbrod Olesky has been at the leading edge of birth injury legal education for more than 30 years
After a decade of representing young victims of birth injuries, firm founder Les Weisbrod realized that more needed to be done to help attorneys across the United States. So, Les co-founded the Birth Trauma Litigation Group (BTLG) in 1991.
For the past 30 years, Les and the birth injury attorneys at Miller Weisbrod Olesky have organized continuing education for attorneys, including presentations from medical doctors who specialize in:
Today, BTLG is the leading educational and information sharing group for attorneys dedicated to representing children and their families dealing with life-changing birth injuries. Attorneys trained by Miller Weisbrod Olesky have held more leadership positions in the BTLG than any other law firm in the United States.
We remain committed to being the leading national birth injury law firm by helping clients across the United States. Training attorneys in the latest medical knowledge on the causes and long-term treatment of birth injuries improves representation industry-wide.
Contact Miller Weisbrod Olesky
Discuss your claim with our national birth injury attorneys at Miller Weisbrod Olesky. Please call (888) 987-0005 or use our contact form to tell us about your case.
Our Birth Injury Attorneys
Les Weisbrod
Les Weisbrod has been on the cutting edge of the national birth injury litigation scene for almost 40 years.
As a national birth injury attorney, Les has settled over 204 medical negligence cases for more than $1,000,000. He also obtained settlements in 75 birth injury cases for over $1,000,000 each.
His $31 million verdict against Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas was one of the top 100 verdicts in the United States that given year.
Les is recognized nationally and internationally as one of the top plaintiff’s medical malpractice trial lawyers in the United States. But the recoveries for the clients and the differences made in the lives of the children and families Les has represented tell only part of the story.
Les has worked with his law partner Clay Miller for years to build a one-of-a-kind law firm.
Miller Weisbrod provides unique and unparalleled services to families of birth-injured and brain-injured children from the moment the firm decides to take the case.
The registered nurses and registered nurse-attorneys on staff are valuable team members who assist Miller Weisbrod birth-injury clients. Les has designed a system where each birth injured child is assigned a nurse-attorney liaison to guide them through the process of medical treatment/evaluation, therapies, home assistance, and quality of life improvement.
Miller Weisbrod’s unmatched service allows families to better cope with the immediate challenges facing our young clients.
Birth-injured children and their families are Les and Miller Weisbrod’s priority.
Les and the attorneys at Miller Weisbrod fight for the justice their clients are entitled to under our nation’s system of justice.
This fighting spirit has taken Les across the United States to represent clients in birth injury and medical negligence cases. In fact, he has personally handled cases not only in Texas but also in Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Utah, Iowa, Ohio, Oregon, Montana, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and New York.
Les and Miller Weisbrod continue to expand their reach of helping brain-injured children to new states each year as we strive to bring a sense of justice to each affected family. And Les is not the only one who notices he fights for his clients.
Michael Rustad, a Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School in Boston who has done extensive research on punitive damage awards, says,
“Les Weisbrod has obtained more medical malpractice punitive damage jury verdicts for his clients than any other attorney in the United States.”
Also, a well-known defense medical malpractice attorney dubbed Les Weisbrod the “pitbull” of the Texas medical malpractice bar in a media profile of Les published by a major newspaper.
Les shares his experience and knowledge to improve the representation of all birth-injured children and their families.
In the early 1990s, Les recognized that a more focused effort needed to be made to educate attorneys who handle birth injury cases. As a result, Les was the founding Co-Chair of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) Birth Trauma Litigation Group in 1991. He also was a founding Co-Chair of AAJ’s Medical Negligence Litigation Group in 1999 and served as Chair of AAJ’s Professional Negligence Section in 1996.
Combined, these groups have put on more than a hundred continuing education seminars across the United States. helping to educate other attorneys by bringing in world-renowned experts in the fields of:
Education and professional experiences back up his dedication to helping children and families harmed by medical malpractice.
Les received his B.A. magna cum laude in 1975 from Claremont Men’s College and his J.D. in 1978 from Southern Methodist University Law School.
He is Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Personal Injury Trial Law and Civil Trial Law.
Les was a past president of the Dallas Trial Lawyers Association in 1993. He has been a member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association Board of Directors since 1990.
His work with the American Association for Justice (AAJ) (formerly ATLA) includes serving as President, President-Elect, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Parliamentarian. Mr. Weisbrod has also served on the AAJ Board of Governors since 1998 and the 17-member Executive Committee of AAJ since 2001. In 1990, he was chosen as a Rising Star of the ATLA and presented a paper entitled “Dirt and Greed: A New Look at Medical Malpractice Cases.”
Les has written and lectured extensively on birth injury litigation, medical malpractice, and medical product topics.
Les is a contributing author to the 1996 text Operative Obstetrics published by Williams & Wilkins. He also co-authored the “Drugs & Medical Devices” chapter in AAJ’s Litigating Tort Cases.
He also has lectured to lawyer groups across the U.S., Canada, England, and Australia.
Education
Southern Methodist University - School of Law, J.D. - Dallas, Texas, 1978
Claremont Men's College - B.A. - Claremont, California, 1975
Bar Admissions
Texas
Arkansas
Areas of Practice
Medical Malpractice
Birth Injury/Birth Trauma
Products Liability
Personal Injury
Associations & Memberships
State Bar of Texas
National Association Of Distinguished Counsel
Million Dollar Advocates Forum
Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
American Association for Justice
Texas Trial Lawyers Association
Dallas Trial Lawyers Association
Pan-European Organization of Personal Injury Lawyers
American Society of Law and Medicine
Consumer Attorneys of California
Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association
Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association
Dallas and American Bar Associations
ABOTA (American Board of Trial Advocates)
Clay Miller
Clay is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Clay has practiced solely in the field of catastrophic injury and wrongful death since graduating from law school. His practice has been limited to the representation of victims. Over the past twenty-four years, Clay has successfully settled or tried to verdict cases in the areas of vehicular negligence, medical malpractice, construction site accidents, workplace injury, premises liability, and commercial trucking and a nationwide business loss case (suits filed in a dozen different states) involving defective truck engines sold to trucking companies.
Clay represented dozens of trucking companies in lost profit and diminished value claims against Caterpillar in 2010 through 2012. These cases were filed in over a dozen states with the bellwether trial set in Federal Court in Davenport, Iowa. After intense litigation and trial preparation, a global confidential settlement was reached for all the clients.
Clay's most recent 2017 victories are a $30,800,000 jury verdict in Tennessee arising from fraud claims in the sale of heavy-duty truck engines and a $26,500,000jury verdict in a construction accident, obtained within 60 days of each other.
Clay was raised in Lewisville, Texas and completed his undergraduate degree in Finance at Texas A & M University. Following graduation from Southern Methodist University School of law, Clay worked for two Dallas firms representing victims. In 1998, Clay began his own practice before forming his current partnership. In addition to his law practice, Clay has lectured at seminars and published in the areas of construction accidents, jury selection techniques, medical negligence, trucking accidents and settlement tactics.
David Olesky is Vice Chair of the Health Care Professional Liability practice. David is a trial lawyer focusing his practice on complex litigation matters that involve defending and protecting clients in all types of cases related to catastrophic injuries or death, but with a special focus on birth injury cases. David regularly advises his health care clients on the issues and challenges that they face on a daily basis. Clients repeatedly look to him for guidance to handle such high stakes cases and matters in Texas and jurisdictions outside of Texas.
David has earned the trust and reliance of clients he has worked with by consistently getting the results that matter most to them, whether that is a win at trial or a favorable outcome through alternative dispute resolution outside the courthouse. Through his representation, David demonstrates a true loyalty and hardworking commitment to the clients that he serves.
David believes the foundation of any client relationship is to act as a trusted advisor instead of simply as a litigator. Clients value his earnest representation of their business interests, accompanied by a devotion to understanding their businesses, prompt attention to their immediate needs and the challenges they face in their individual roles.
Education
Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, J.D., 1992 - Dallas, Texas
Alexandra Boone is a partner in Miller Weisbrod. She concentrates her legal practice in the area of birth injury, medical malpractice and mass tort products liability. Alex currently works directly with firm partner Les Weisbrod in managing the birth injury docket and working with the firm’s highly qualified expert witnesses in the review of potential cases. Alex also litigates her own docket of medical negligence cases.
Over the course of her 17 years with the firm, Alex has focused on the administration and prosecution of mass tort litigation, originally focusing on occupational toxins, but more recently in the area of pharmaceuticals and medical devices. In the past, she has actively pursed cases involving hormone therapy, Vioxx, Fosamax, and Reglan. Alex was also instrumental in our firm successfully resolving thousands of cases transvaginal mesh, hip prosthetics, and the blood thinner Xarelto. She is actively prosecuting over 1,000 cases.
In addition to being a member of the Texas bar, she is also licensed in Oklahoma and is a member of the American Association of Justice, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Oklahoma Association of Justice and the Dallas Trial Lawyers Association.
Education
Baylor University - School of Law, 1996, J.D. - Waco, Texas
Bar Admissions
Texas - 1996
Oklahoma - 2006
Areas of Practice
Products Liability
Mass Tort
Associations & Memberships
State Bar of Texas
American Association of Justice
Texas Trial Lawyers Association
Oklahoma Association of Justice
Dallas Trial Lawyers Association
Pro Bono Activities
East Texas Legal Services/Nix Law Firm Pro Bono Project, 1996 - 1997
Robert Wolf
Robert E. Wolf was born in Dallas, Texas and graduated Magna Cum Laude as a proud horned frog from Texas Christian University in 1997, with Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Mortar Board. He obtained his law degree from Southern Methodist University in 2000 while serving as an Articles Editor for the International Law Review and winning awards at Mock Trial and Appellate competitions.
Robert has been named a Thomson Reuters | Texas Super Lawyers Rising Star (less than 2.5% of attorneys in Texas receive this distinction) in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. Further, Robert was recognized as a National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 attorney for Texas in 2012 (no more than 40 attorneys in Texas are eligible for this award annually).
Robert brought his passion for and over 14 years of experience of representing seriously injured individuals and their families to Miller Weisbrod in January 2015, and has concentrated his legal practice in the area of medical malpractice, products liability, and pharmaceutical/mass tort litigation. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas, American Association for Justice, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, and Dallas Trial Lawyers Association.
In addition to many successful jury verdicts and settlements across Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Idaho, Robert’s role as an attorney representing victims and their families has led to numerous changes to key safety practices and policies and procedures at corporations and medical facilities.
Robert and his wife Suzy also get plenty of exercise trying to keep up with their precious and very active daughter.
Education
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law, J.D. - 2000 - Dallas, Texas
Texas Christian University - B.S. Political Science - 1997 - Fort Worth, Texas
Bar Admissions
Texas - 2000
Areas of Practice
Medical Malpractice
Personal Injury
Products Liability
Associations & Memberships
State Bar of Texas
American Association of Justice
Texas Trial Lawyers Association
Dallas Trial Lawyers Association
Carrie Vine
Carrie Lynn Vine has over 15 years of experience in medical malpractice litigation, with a particular focus in representing children and families who have suffered birth injuries as a result of the negligence of either doctors, nurses or hospitals.
She is a passionate advocate for her clients and has handled hundreds of birth injury and birth trauma cases throughout the United States. As part of Carrie’s national birth injury legal practice, she has handled cases in Texas, Arkansas, California, Nevada, Kentucky, Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and North Dakota. She is determined to seek justice and works to obtain fair compensation for the children and families she represents.
Carrie earned her law degree from Northern Illinois University where she tutored other law students. Prior to law school, she received her undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame in Biomedical and Biological Science, and earned both a Master’s Degree and a Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University in Anthropological Genetics. She then conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Michigan Medical School before deciding to attend law school. She applies an academic mindset and love of science and medicine to mastering the medical principles and literature relevant to the cases she pursues.
Carrie is an active member of the American Association of Justice as well as the Birth Trauma Litigation Group (BLTG).
Education
Northern Illinois University:
Law School
University of Notre Dame:
Biomedical Science
Pennsylvania State University:
Anthropological Genetics
Bar Admissions
Texas
Areas of Practice
Birth Injury/Birth Trauma
Medical Malpractice
Associations & Memberships
American Association of Justice:
Member
Birth Trauma Litigation Group:
Member
Larry Lassiter
Lawrence R. Lassiter is an AV-rated attorney with more than twenty years of experience in appellate and trial advocacy. He has been consulted by attorneys across the country to conduct research, evaluate cases, prepare appellate and trial briefs, and formulate litigation strategy. He has prepared hundreds of appellate briefs in federal and state appellate courts, including the highest courts of Texas, West Virginia, Georgia, Oklahoma, Ohio, Nebraska and Tennessee, and he is member of the Bar of the United States Supreme Court. Larry has a national appellate and legal briefing practice. Larry has filed extensive briefs and/or argued before either state or federal courts in 30 out of 50 states in his career.
Larry assists the Birth Injury team in all aspects of legal briefing. Unlike many other birth injury firms across the United States, Miller Weisbrod has an attorney dedicated to handling legal briefing on behalf of our clients across the country. Larry has handled extensive briefing in birth injury and other medical malpractice cases in Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Ohio, Alabama, Georgia, New York, Utah, Arizona, Louisiana and West Virginia.
Since joining Miller Weisbrod in 2010, Larry has won a number of important victories vindicating the rights of our clients in both state and federal appellate courts, including Vitacost.com, Inc. v. McCants, 210 So.3d 761 (Fla. Ct. App. 2017); TTHR Ltd. Partnership v. Moreno, 401 S.W.3d 41 (Tex. 2013); In re E.B., 729 S.E.2d 271 (W. Va. 2012); Mid-Continent Cas. Co. v. Davis, 683 F.3d 651 (5th Cir. 2012); Rouhani v. Morgan, 2017 WL 3526719 (Tex. App. – Houston [1st Dist.] 2017, no pet.); Mid-Continent Cas. Co. v. Andregg Contracting, Inc., 391 S.W.3d 573 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2012).
He was as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Harlington Wood Jr., Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Larry was a University of Iowa Presidential Scholar and served as Editor in Chief of the Iowa Law Review.
Larry is an active member of the American Association for Justice. He is a member of AAJ’s Birth Injury Litigation Group and Medical Negligence Sections.
Education
University of Iowa - Political Science & History - B.A. - Iowa City, Iowa
University of Iowa - School of Law - J.D. - Iowa City, Iowa
Bar Admissions
Texas - 1996
Kansas
Missouri
Areas of Practice
Appellate Advocacy
Medical Malpractice
Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices
Products Liability
Personal Injury
Associations & Memberships
State Bar of Texas
American Association of Justice
Texas Trial Lawyers Association
Dallas Trial Lawyers Association
Laurie Pierce
Laurie draws upon extensive experience in state and federal courts with a focus on complex claims involving medical malpractice cases. After many years of defending health care providers and hospital systems in medical malpractice cases, Laurie joined David Olesky in the national birth injury and medical negligence practice at Miller Weisbrod Olesky.
Laurie’s focus is to understand not only the facts and circumstances of the matter at hand, but to understand the specific needs and goals of the client and their unique business considerations. Her extensive background in commercial litigation provides a foundation that enhances her health care litigation practice. She works with clients that require more than a strong trial lawyer; they expect an attorney who understands the relationship between law and their specific business and who will work tirelessly to protect their rights, interests and bottom line.
Admitted to Pro Bono College of State Bar of Texas in 2019 for outstanding delivery of legal services to low-income Texans
Court Admissions
United States Supreme Court
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas
Linda Cuaderes
Linda Cuaderes is both a registered nurse and a licensed lawyer. Linda works exclusively in Miller Weisbrod’s Birth Injury and Medical Malpractice section. Linda acts as the firm’s patient advocate and liaison with our young clients and their parents.
Linda combines her legal and nursing experience along with her exceptional organizational talent and attention to detail to make sure each child we represent is provided the highest level of medical care and attendant care during the pendency of their case. Linda communicates with our parent clients regularly to monitor their birth injured child’s treatment, provide guidance as to additional care and therapies and when necessary assist them in obtaining specialized medical providers.
Linda was raised in Bartlesville, Oklahoma and completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing with Honors at the University of Oklahoma. She started as an Oncology Nurse at Presbyterian Hospital in Oklahoma City, quickly becoming the Assistant Head Nurse of the Outpatient Endoscopy Unit. Linda then entered the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
Following graduation, Linda joined Les Weisbrod in the Medical Malpractice Section. After taking time off to raise her three lovely children, Linda returned to Miller Weisbrod and her passion of holding healthcare providers accountable for preventable errors. Linda is active in the American Association for Justice, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Dallas Trial Lawyers Association, and the Texas Bar Association. Linda is an active member of the Birth Trauma Litigation Group and Medical Negligence Section of the American Association for Justice.
She is admitted to practice before the Texas Supreme Court and routinely works on cases pending throughout the United States. Linda has worked with child victims of birth injury, their parents and other victims of medical malpractice in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Iowa, Ohio, New York, Alabama, Georgia, Arizona, Utah and Missouri.
Education
University of Oklahoma - School of Law, 1990, J.D. - Norman, Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma - School of Nursing, 1985 - Norman, Oklahoma
Bar Admissions
Texas - 1996
Areas of Practice
Medical Malpractice
Birth Injury/Birth Trauma
Associations & Memberships
Texas Bar Association
American Association of Justice
Texas Trial Lawyers Association
Dallas Trial Lawyers Association
Kristin Jones
Kristin combines her medical and legal training to provide invaluable, passionate service to parents struggling to care for their birth-injured children. Families often have questions as they go through the birth injury lawsuit process. Kristin diligently identifies and investigates all medical issues so the birth injury attorneys at Miller Weisbrod can answer those questions. Kristin ensures that our birth injured children’s medical records are thoroughly reviewed and organized. Miller Weisbrod’s birth trauma litigation attorneys and medical experts retained by the firm need her services while pursuing justice for our clients.
Education
SMU Dedman School of Law - Dallas, Texas
University of Texas at Arlington - Arlington, Texas
Bar Admissions
Texas - 1996
Areas of Practice
Medical Malpractice
Birth Injury/Birth Trauma
Associations & Memberships
State Bar of Texas
American Association of Justice
Texas Trial Lawyers Association
Matt Adair
Matt Adair is an attorney specializing in medical malpractice, products liability, and pharmaceutical litigation. He received his bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. During his time there, he studied abroad at the New College at Oxford University in Oxford, England.
Matt is a member of the State Bar of Texas, American Association for Justice, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, and Dallas Trial Lawyers Association.
Education
University of Notre Dame - Philosophy, B.A. 2012 - Notre Dame, Indiana
Baylor University - School of Law J.D. 2015 - Waco, Texas
Bar Admissions
Texas - 2015
Areas of Practice
Medical Malpractice
Products Liability
Pharmaceutical Litigation
Associations & Memberships
State Bar of Texas
American Association of Justice
Texas Trial Lawyers Association
Dallas Trial Lawyers Association
Garrett Stanford
Garrett Stanford was born in Dallas, Texas and graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2017 with a B.A. in Political Science. After graduation, he attended Baylor University School of Law. During his time at Baylor, he was a member of the Order of the Barristers and he won the Judge W.C. Davis Endowed Criminal Practice Professional Track Award. He obtained his law degree and license to practice law in 2020.
Garrett joined Miller Weisbrod in August 2021. His legal practice is concentrated in the area of birth injury and medical malpractice. Garret is actively involved in handling birth injury and medical malpractice cases in Texas, Ohio, Utah, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Education
Southern Methodist University - Political Science, B.S. - Dallas, Texas
University of Baylor - School of Law, J.D. - Waco, Texas
Bar Admissions
Texas - 2020
Areas of Practice
Medical Malpractice
Birth Injury/Birth Trauma
Associations & Memberships
State Bar of Texas
What is the Miller Weisbrod Olesky Birth Injury Case Review Process?
It’s how we determine if you have a case.
Our case review process starts the moment you contact our firm. You can contact our National Birth Injury trained intake team from anywhere in United States by telephone, via a website submission on this page, or even via live chat. We understand that injuries to a child during or shortly after birth are traumatic and emotional—and we’re here to listen.
Our Intake Members Gather Information About You and Your Child
During your first contact, you will speak with one of our birth injury-trained intake team members. Each member is a nurse or works closely with our legal nurse team.
Our intake team member will gather all the facts you have regarding your child, the birth of your child, and all concerns you have about the birth process.
You will not be required to tell us what you think was done wrong (that is our job to find out). Otherwise, please feel free to tell us everything you feel and know.
Please know there is absolutely No Charge for this consultation. You will never have to pay any money unless we recover compensation for you and your child.
Our Case Review Team Handles the Next Steps
After this consultation, our case review team will review the information you provided. This team consists of our professional nursing staff, nurse-attorneys, and the firm’s founding partners.
It usually takes six to eight weeks to retrieve medical records. Unfortunately, hospital medical records departments operate at a slower pace than we would all like!
As medical records arrive, our nurse consultants and nurse-attorneys thoroughly review them. We then review each case at a birth injury case review meeting. Both firm name partners, various birth injury attorneys, and our entire legal nurse and legal nurse-attorney team attend this meeting.
These experts include obstetricians, neonatologists, pediatric neurologists, pediatric radiologists, nursing experts, life care planners, and economists. In some states, we must have expert reports back from some of these experts before filing a lawsuit.
This entire medical record review process may take as long as six months to complete. Rest assured, we will be prepared to manage all potential issues after the experts have reached their medical conclusions.
We’ll Explain What Happens Next During Our Sign-Up Meeting
If we decide to take your case, you will meet with birth injury attorney Les Weisbrod and other team members. Les will explain our findings, what the medical experts found, and how the litigation process works.
We will have you sign our firm attorney contract that officially hires us to represent you. You will also sign medical authorizations so we can gather additional medical records covering:
Your prenatal care
Your labor and delivery
Your child’s neonatal care
Follow up visits with pediatricians and other specialists
Once again, you will not pay any attorneys’ fees or expenses during this process. You will never owe a fee or reimbursement of expenses unless we make a successful recovery for you and your child.
We Are Available to You During the Case Intake Process
As our investigation and case review proceeds, we will keep you informed. The intake team will be available to answer your questions and address any concerns you have with your child’s case, medical treatment, or condition.
We believe in taking care of our clients during each step of this process. Please know that we are here to listen and help during the entire case review and lawsuit process.
At the end of this process, we will be able to tell you whether we believe we can prove that a medical error caused your child’s birth injury.
Our Birth Injury Attorneys Have a Proven Track Record of Success
We provide dedicated, expert legal representation to pursue your legal claims toward future compensation. We also offer support and advice that you need right now.
We have earned a reputation as powerful advocates for individuals and families who have suffered as a result of negligence on the part of an individual, local business, major corporation, physician or health care facility.
Our Birth Injury team provides resources that may help parents better understand medical information, birth injury litigation, disability rights, and opportunities that may benefit their children.
Medical professionals can prevent birth injuries by carefully monitoring the health of a mother and baby and promptly intervening if necessary. Find out more.
Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is a type of birth injury caused by oxygen deprivation and/or limited blood flow to the brain at or near the time of birth.
Neonatal resuscitation refers to emergency intervention techniques employed immediately after childbirth to assist babies who are not able to breathe independently after birth.
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