Thompson Coe Elects Eight New Partners

Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, L.L.P. is pleased to announce the election of new partners – Alexander Blue, Cassie Dallas, Christopher Frazier, Stephanie Krueger, Jon Paul Melton, Molly Pela, Leslie Richardson, and Christopher Rigler. The new partners are representative of three of Thompson Coe’s six offices and make up the largest partner class at Thompson Coe to date. A brief overview of each candidate is below:

Cassie Dallas – Cassie Dallas is a member of our Appellate section and is based in the Dallas office. Cassie focuses her practice on appeals and mandamus proceedings in Texas state and federal courts. Cassie has considerable experience preparing appellate briefs, original proceedings, motions to dismiss, summary-judgment motions, jury charges, and post-judgement motions. She has argued numerous cases before the Second and Fifth Courts of Appeal. She attended law school at Texas Tech University School of Law where she graduated summa cum laude.

Christopher Frazier – Chris Frazier maintains a diverse casualty litigation practice with an emphasis on defending companies and individuals in personal injury, wrongful death, negligence, deceptive trade practices, premises liability, and products liability matters. Christopher also represents general contractors and property owners in workplace injury litigation. Christopher is based in our Houston office and is a member of the Litigation and Products Liability & Mass Torts sections. He received his law degree from the University of Houston Law Center.

Stephanie Krueger – Stephanie’s practice focuses on defending claims for premises liability, commercial automobile accidents, products liability, dram shop, and industrial accidents involving property damage, personal injury, and wrongful death. Stephanie has defended property owners and property management entities on a wide variety of premises liability claims ranging from simple slip and falls to third-party criminal activity. Stephanie is based in our Houston office and is a member of the Litigation and Products Liability & Mass Torts sections. She attended Michigan State University College of Law.

Jon Paul Melton – Jon Paul is a trial lawyer in the Commercial Litigation and Products Liability & Mass Torts sections. His practice is dedicated to resolving disputes and reaching favorable results for clients who specialize in commercial transportation, construction, product manufacturers, property ownership, and oil field services. Jon Paul has successfully tried cases to verdict in state and federal court for clients facing claims of negligence, construction defect, bad faith, and breach of contract. He is based in the Dallas office and attended law school at the South Texas College of Law.

Leslie Richardson – Leslie focuses her practice on litigation and insurance defense, involving personal injury, construction defect, wrongful death, premises liability, and business disputes. Before joining Thompson Coe, Leslie represented a variety of clients, ranging from insurance companies and their insureds to injured workers. Also, as a former corporate claims analyst, Leslie’s experience includes management of healthcare general and professional liability claims made against physician groups and long-term care facilities. Leslie is a member of the Litigation Section and is based in the Dallas office. She attended law school at Texas Tech University School of Law.

Christopher Rigler – Christopher has over ten years of experience in the areas of professional liability defense (medical, accounting, and legal), trucking company defense, products liability defense, construction defect defense, and appellate practice. Over his career, Christopher has successfully defended physicians, nurses, healthcare providers, attorneys, accountants, product manufacturers, insurance companies, trucking companies, general contractors, and businesses in various civil and administrative phases and forums. Christopher is based in the Dallas office and is a member of the Litigation, Healthcare and Products Liability & Mass Torts sections. Christopher received his law degree from Gonzaga University.

Thompson Coe is recognized for its civil litigation capabilities and its expertise in insurance law, and has offices in Dallas, Houston, and Austin, Texas, Los Angeles, California, New Orleans, Louisiana and Saint Paul, Minnesota. Building its practice on a heritage of more than 65 years, the firm provides a full range of services to the insurance industry and offers many other client services in labor and employment, commercial litigation, premises and products liability, professional liability, energy, marine, mass tort, appellate, construction, commercial transactions, real estate and tax, data privacy, administrative law and estate planning.