Top Rated Personal Injury Attorney in Bellaire, TX

An attorney at the Heard Law Firm PLLC, Derek Merman focuses his practice exclusively on complex personal injury and wrongful death litigation. Working out of the firm’s offices in Houston, Texas, he represents clients throughout the greater metropolitan area. Fluent in Spanish as well as in English, Mr. Merman has been admitted to practice in Texas since 2004, and he is also admitted to practice in Iowa as well as before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Western, Northern, and Eastern Districts of Texas, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

A significant portion of Mr. Merman’s practice involves the representation of people who have been harmed by defective or dangerous products. In the course of his distinguished career, he has gone up against such manufacturing conglomerates as General Motors, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer pharmaceuticals, and DuPont de Nemours, Inc. Mr. Merman's cases have also included aviation accidents, admiralty claims, civil rights violations, and truck and other motor vehicle crashes. He has been able to obtain millions of dollars in compensation through settlements and jury awards, including a verdict of more than $16 million in a civil rights case.

These and other successes have resulted in a great deal of favorable recognition from Mr. Merman’s fellow attorneys, including a 10.0 “Superb” peer-review rating through Avvo. In addition, he has been named to both The National Trial Lawyers: Top 40 Under 40 and The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100, and he has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Merman is a 2004 cum laude graduate of the University of Houston Law Center.