Eric Allen Hawley

Eric Hawley is a trial attorney at Kherkher Garcia, LLP, with over 15 years of experience representing individuals against powerful corporate interests.

Eric offers personal injury clients a distinct advantage through his background handling complex commercial litigation on both sides of the courtroom—a perspective that sharpens his ability to anticipate and counter defense strategies in personal injury matters.

Throughout his career, Eric has been driven by a fundamental commitment to representing victims who are natural underdogs against major corporations and insurance companies that seek to bully plaintiffs into cheap settlements.

He has successfully recovered substantial settlements and verdicts for clients suffering from catastrophic injuries and serious personal harm resulting from:

Motor vehicle and 18-wheeler trucking collisions

Construction and workplace incidents

Building and scaffolding collapses

Product liability

Premises liability and slip-and-fall injuries

Sexual assault cases

In 2025 alone, Eric worked directly on cases where Kherkher Garcia recovered over $105,660,000 in settlements and awards for clients.

Eric’s advocacy extends beyond traditional personal injury cases. He has experience handling complex commercial litigation, including contractual disputes, breaches of fiduciary duties by corporate officers, fraud claims, and litigation over corporate trade secrets.

Beyond trial work, Eric has developed particular experience in appellate advocacy. His appellate work includes providing critical support to trial teams by helping them to preserve favorable verdicts and remedying trial errors on appeal. Eric also handles briefing and oral arguments at the federal and state level for cases that either side chooses to appeal.

A Dallas native, Eric graduated with a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. He then returned to his alma mater for law school as a recipient of the prestigious Tom C. Clark Fellows Scholarship in Law.

While at The University of Texas School of Law, Eric demonstrated his commitment to advocating for the disadvantaged when he participated in the Capital Punishment Clinic as a Student Attorney, assisting with the representation of indigent defendants charged with or convicted of capital offenses.

Eric’s dedication to public service continued during law school and afterward with his work for non-profit organizations, including the Texas Legal Services Center, where he aided victims of identity theft, and the Texas Center for Policy Studies, where he contributed to environmental policy reform in Texas.

After law school, Eric began his legal career handling business litigation in Houston, Texas. Since 2014, Eric has worked along side Jesus Garcia in representing plaintiffs with serious personal injuries.

In 2019, Eric Hawley and Jesus Garcia joined with Steve Kherkher to form the firm Kherkher Garcia, LLP.

Publications

“Cybersecurity and Disaster Recovery Issues for Law Firms,” The Houston Lawyer, Vol. 53, Number 4, Jan-Feb. 2016

Selected for publication in The Computer & Internet Lawyer, Vol. 33, No. 12, 2016.

Presentations

“Navigating Arbitration: Avoidance, Approach, & Aftermath"

Personal Injury CLE, South Texas College of Law, 2025,

Personal Injury CLE, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, 2024

“The Verdict Is In! … Now What? How to Get a Proper Final Judgment in Texas

”Personal Injury CLE, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, 2023

“Data Breach: What Attorneys Need to Know

”CLE at Schwartz, Junell, Greenberg & Oathout, 2013