John G. Escamilla

jescamilla@wgclawfirm.com

“John’s aggressive litigation skills are matched by his keen legal analysis beyond the trial court level. Not only does he achieve the desired verdict, he makes sure you get to keep it.”

Ric Godinez
McAllen, Texas

John G. Escamilla was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in San Antonio, Texas.  He was educated at the University of Texas at Austin, where he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and History in 1991, and a Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1995.  During law school, Mr. Escamilla received a Cain Foundation Public Interest Fellowship, clerked at Texas Rural Legal Aid in Weslaco, Texas, and served as Articles and Notes Editor for the Texas International Law Journal.

After graduation, Mr. Escamilla served as the briefing attorney for Hon. Linda Reyna Yanez at the Thirteenth Court of Appeals in Edinburg, Texas from 1996 through 1998.  For more than a decade since, he has been prosecuting wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases throughout Texas and beyond.  He has successfully represented clients in lawsuits arising from trucking accidents, workplace accidents, defective vehicles and tires, premises liability, civil rights abuses, electrocutions, and medical malpractice. Mr. Escamilla has litigated and tried complicated commercial lawsuits between businesses involving breach of contract, fraud, negligence, and tortuous interference.  He has represented a wide array of clients, from car dealerships and other retailers involving franchise disputes, scientists and universities involved in research disputes, and oil well owners and service companies involving well damage and lost production.  He has recently represented clients in a workplace accident involving a misused forklift, a trucking crash caused by a careless interstate truck driver, a rollover accident caused by defective tires, a commercial dispute related to oilfield services that damaged an oil well, a lawsuit against a tire company involving its design, and a premises liability case in which three persons were fatally injured.

Mr. Escamilla brings an exceptional breadth of experience to the cases he handles because, in addition to his extensive trial practice, Mr. Escamilla has handled over thirty-five appellate matters.  He has been lead appellate counsel in state and federal actions, including interlocutory appeals, original proceedings, and appeals to various Texas appellate courts.  Among his appellate triumphs was convincing the Texas Supreme Court to affirm an exceptional liability finding and compensatory damage award well in excess of a million dollars in an employment discrimination case. 

Apart from his litigation, Mr. Escamilla gives back to the legal community as a frequent speaker at legal education conferences (CLE) courses on a variety of litigation-related topics.  He has authored award-winning series of informative articles for the Hidalgo Bar Association’s monthly publication The Summons.

Mr. Escamilla is licensed to practice in the state courts of Texas, the United States Court for the Southern District of Texas, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Federal Claims.  John is a member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association (TTLA) and Attorney Information Exchange Group (AIEG).  He also serves on the National Advisory Board for the Association of Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America.  John is fluent in written and spoken Spanish.