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Personal Injury. Mr. Baker represents individuals who have been injured by the
negligent acts of other persons or companies. These types of suits include industrial accidents,
trucking accidents, automobile accidents, defective products, premises liability, civil assault,
and cases arising out of other intentional misconduct or negligence.
Medical Malpractice. Mr. Baker represents individuals who have been injured by the negligent
conduct of physicians, nurses, and other licensed healthcare personnel. Mr. Baker also focuses on
hospital negligence, which includes the administrative decisions made by hospital administrators
which may have contributed to cause, personal injuries received during the treatment and care of an
injury or disease.
Business and Commercial Law. Mr. Baker provides a wide range of services to business clients,
including assistance with a range of contract, employment, and operational disputes. The services
provided by Mr. Baker include drafting and negotiation of business agreements, as well as litigating
those agreements over which a dispute has arisen.
Family Law. Mr. Baker handles a wide range of family law matters, including divorce, custody
disputes, property division, modifications of prior custody or support orders, premarital agreements,
paternity, termination of parental rights, adoptions and change of name requests. Throughout his practice, Mr.
Baker has developed a reputation for winning difficult custody cases.
Employment Law. Mr. Baker routinely represents individuals who have been wrongfully terminated
due to their age, gender, race or pregnancy. Termination of an employee on these grounds is
unlawful under both state and federal law. Mr. Baker also represents individuals who have been
wrongfully discharged under various state statutes which prohibit the termination of whistle blowers.
Consumer Protection. Mr. Baker represents individuals and businesses which have been harmed as
a result of deceptive business practices or through the purchase of faulty merchandise. Many of
these claims may be brought pursuant to the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Other theories
available to injured consumers include fraud, breach of contract, and other types of misrepresentation
claims.
Professional Licensure. Mr. Baker has extensive experience in representing registered nurses and
vocational nurses with pending licensure disputes before the Texas Board of Nurse Examiners. This
representation ranges from resolution of matters on an informal basis through the entry of an agreed
order, to contested matters before the State Office of Administrative Hearings. Mr. Baker also
has experience in representing other licensed professionals in matters pending before their licensing
boards.
Appellate Practice. Mr. Baker also has experience in representing client's whose cases are being
considered by an appellate court of review. Representative cases include:
- Gary Young vs. Pamela Young, 168 S.W.3d 276 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2005, no writ history) (counsel for Pamela Young)
- Kent Brown vs. Barrett Keith Brown, Sanders, O'Hanlon & Motley, P.L.L.C., Roger D. Sanders, James A. Fry, P.C., James A. Fry, Individually, John W. Ellis, Jr., Hill, Ellis, Hill & Shea, and J. Kermit Hill, 145 S.W.3d 745 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2004, pet. denied) (counsel for James A. Fry, P.C. and James A. Fry, Individually)
- Jackie Newton vs. Rosalie Newton, 895 S.W.2d 503 (Tex. App. – Fort Worth 1995, no writ history) (counsel for Rosalie Newton)
- In Re Hoffman-Shehan, Cause No. 05-03-00218-CV, Court of Appeals of Texas, Fifth District, Dallas 2003 (counsel for Gerald Shehan)
Other Areas of Practice. Throughout his years of practice, Mr. Baker has obtained
experience in handling many different legal matters. Should your legal problem fall outside the scope
of the practice areas listed above, please feel free to give Mr. Baker a call regarding your particular
legal problem. If Mr. Baker has the experience to help you, he will tell you so. If not, he will attempt
to refer you to another attorney whom he knows has the experience to handle your particular issue.
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