Provost Umphrey Partner, Bryan Blevins, Among Best Lawyers in America

Provost Umphrey partner, Bryan Blevins, among Best Lawyers in America.

2012-08-29

BEAUMONT, TX, August 29, 2012 (Press-News.org) Bryan O. Blevins, Jr., senior equity partner with Provost Umphrey Law Firm, is among The Best Lawyers in America 2012 in the field of Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs. (Copyright 2012 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC).

Bryan Blevins, joined Provost Umphrey in 1990 specializing in personal injury law and becoming a firm equity partner in 2007. Blevins has prepared, tried and appealed numerous personal injury and civil litigation matters, including toxic tort, medical malpractice, defective products, industrial negligence and civil rights. He earned his board certification in personal injury trial law from the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in 1995.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 39,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.1 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.

For more than forty years, Provost Umphrey's mission has remained to seek justice for those suffering from a personal injury, wrongful death or other legal wrong across Texas and nationwide through their lawyers in Beaumont and Houston, Little Rock, Arkansas and Nashville, Tennessee.

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