Michael Kirk Mathis

Kirk Mathis is a native of Lufkin, Texas.  His clients include victims of orthopedic trauma, spinal cord injury, burn injuries, traumatic brain injury, nerve damage, and families that have suffered the wrongful death of a loved one.  Mr. Mathis specializes in cases arising from auto collisions with a particular interest in trucking accidents, unsafe premises, and wrongfuyl death litigation.

Mr. Mathis graduated from Texas A&M University in 1994 earning a B.B.A. in Accounting and from Texas Tech School of Law earning a J.D. in 1998.  He went to work for George and Reich Chandler in Lufkin immediately after graduating from law school and has specialized since that time in Plaintiff's personal injury and commercial litigation. Mr. Mathis has tried numerous cases both in Texas and out of state that have resulted in significant verdicts for his clients (including the largest Texas Tort Claims Act verdict for a Plaintiff in Nacogdoches County, Texas in 1998, the largest personal injury verdict in Jasper County, Texas in 1999, the largest personal injury verdict in Angelina County, Texas in 2001, the largest premises liability verdict in Angelina County, Texas in 2008, and the largest personal injury verdict in San Jacinto County, Texas in 2012).  

He has tried cases involving automobile collisions, truck wrecks, medical malpractice, products liability, environmental damage, insurance claims, and premises liability.  

Mr. Mathis is licensed to practice in Texas as well as Federal Court in the Eastern District of Texas, Western District of Texas, Southern District of Texas, District of Colorado, and the Central District of Illinois.  Mr. Mathis is a member the American Board of Trial Advocates, a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, member of the American Association for Justice, member of the Eastern District Bar Association, member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, member of the East Texas Trial Lawyers association, member of the Angelina County Bar Association and serves on the Local Rules Committee for the Eastern District of Texas. 

Mr. Mathis served as President of the Eastern District Bar Association in 2014 and currently serves as a member of its Board of Directors.  He is currently a member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association Board of Directors and served as Chairman of the Advocates Board of Directors in 2005.  Mr. Mathis currently serves as President of the Lufkin Host Lions Club and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Lufkin High School Alumni Association.  Mr. Mathis was honored to receive the Reich Chandler Outstanding Advocate Award from the Texas Trial Lawyers Association in 2011 and has been recognized as both a Rising Star and Super Lawyer in Super Lawyer magazine, a Thomson Reuters company.  Mr. Mathis is AV rated by Martindale Hubbell.