Clayton Richard Rawlings

Hampton & Rawlings:

     My practice takes a precise focus representing people who have been injured due to the negligence of corporations or individuals. I screen my cases very closely so I have a small caseload, which allows me to give individual attention to each client. My greatest satisfaction is successfully representing injured individuals against huge corporations.

I will gladly sit down with a prospective client and visit with them about their case without charging an initial consultation fee. We take great pride in only charging legal fees if we truly help the client. I generally handle these matters on a contingency fee basis, so the client only pays me attorney fees if I recover for them.

Out of the Courtroom:

     I am married to the love of my life and we have raised 5 wonderful children who are all educated and raising families of their own. My oldest son owns a successful barbershop in Santa Monica, California. My youngest daughter won the silver medal in the NCWA finals and was declared an All American. She was the first female wrestler to ever represent The University of Texas. My second youngest daughter is in an artillery unit in the United States Army. She is presently assigned as a gunner on a multi rocket launcher and her unit is currently deployed on a forward operating base in Afghanistan, where they have been assigned as support for an elite Rangers Unit. She has received a combat action badge for her participation on a rescue mission—the particulars of which I cannot make public. I am proud of all my children. I raised my girls to be warriors. It never occurred to me they would take it literally!

     I have always been a thrill-seeker. For that reason, I've been a downhill snow skier, scuba diver (including wreck, cave, and night dives), and skydiver. I flew with the Texas Air Aces and engaged in mock aerial combat at 10,000 feet, and I have parachuted twice from 13,000 feet. I have played drums in various rock bands since the 1980s.

     My wife and I have run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain three times—nearly gored twice! We returned to Texas, bruised, bloodied, but head unbowed. It is that same sense of adventure that I take into the courtroom.