Eric Hawley

Partner

Eric Hawley is a trial attorney at Kherkher Garcia, LLP, with over 15 years of experience representing individuals against powerful corporate interests.

Eric offers personal injury clients a distinct advantage through his background handling complex commercial litigation on both sides of the courtroom—a perspective that sharpens his ability to anticipate and counter defense strategies in personal injury matters.

Practice Areas & Experience

Throughout his career, Eric has been driven by a fundamental commitment to representing victims who are natural underdogs against major corporations and insurance companies that seek to bully plaintiffs into cheap settlements.

He has successfully recovered substantial settlements and verdicts for clients suffering from catastrophic injuries and serious personal harm resulting from:

• Motor vehicle and 18-wheeler trucking collisions
• Construction and workplace incidents
• Building and scaffolding collapses
• Product liability
• Premises liability and slip-and-fall injuries
• Sexual assault cases

In 2025 alone, Eric worked directly on cases where Kherkher Garcia recovered over $105,660,000 in settlements and awards for clients.

Eric’s advocacy extends beyond traditional personal injury cases. He has experience handling complex commercial litigation, including contractual disputes, breaches of fiduciary duties by corporate officers, fraud claims, and litigation over corporate trade secrets.

Beyond trial work, Eric has developed particular experience in appellate advocacy. His appellate work includes providing critical support to trial teams by helping them to preserve favorable verdicts and remedying trial errors on appeal. Eric also handles briefing and oral arguments at the federal and state level for cases that either side chooses to appeal.

Background

A Dallas native, Eric graduated with a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. He then returned to his alma mater for law school as a recipient of the prestigious Tom C. Clark Fellows Scholarship in Law.

While at The University of Texas School of Law, Eric demonstrated his commitment to advocating for the disadvantaged when he participated in the Capital Punishment Clinic as a Student Attorney, assisting with the representation of indigent defendants charged with or convicted of capital offenses.

Eric’s dedication to public service continued during law school and afterward with his work for non-profit organizations, including the Texas Legal Services Center, where he aided victims of identity theft, and the Texas Center for Policy Studies, where he contributed to environmental policy reform in Texas.

After law school, Eric began his legal career handling business litigation in Houston, Texas. Since 2014, Eric has worked along side Jesus Garcia in representing plaintiffs with serious personal injuries.

In 2019, Eric Hawley and Jesus Garcia joined with Steve Kherkher to form the firm Kherkher Garcia, LLP.

Client Victories

Eric’s recent notable victories for clients include:

• Election Contest Defense (2026): Working with a trial team, Eric successfully defended a Harris County District Court Judge in an election contest following an 8-day trial in 2023, securing a win for the Judge and preserving her election victory over her opponent.
  • On appeal, Eric prepared all briefs and presented oral arguments to the First Court of Appeals.
  • In February 2026, the First Court of Appeals published its opinion affirming victory for the client. Lunceford v. Craft, No. 01-23-00921-CV, 2026 WL 280362, ___ S.W.3d ___ (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 2026, no pet.).
• $19,000,000 Wrongful Death Settlement (2025): Assisted trial team in obtaining compensation for the widow and children of a construction worker who lost his life in a major incident that made national headlines.
• $11,000,000 Personal Injury Settlement (2025): Assisted trial team in obtaining settlement for victim in Colorado who was severely injured when he fell from an aerial lift while working on the construction of a building.
• $8,000,000 Trucking Injury Settlement (2025): Assisted trial team in recovering a settlement for a client who was injured when he was struck by an 18-wheeler that caused a roll-over crash.
• Negligent Security Settlement (2025): After two days of trial, Eric and the trial team obtained a substantial, but confidential, settlement in a case where a client was shot while in the parking lot of a restaurant in Houston, Texas.
• $110,000,000 Wrongful Death Settlement (2024): Assisted trial team in obtaining a settlement against a Fortune 500 pipeline company for burn victims of a plant explosion.
• $28,500,000 Personal Injury Settlement (2024): Assisted trial team in recovering compensation for a victim whose leg was amputated as a result of negligence on an oilfield site.
• $80,000,000.00 Trade Secret Claim Dismissal (2024): Obtained full dismissal of a lawsuit filed against his client, an oil field equipment distribution company, facing allegations of trade secret misappropriation from its competitor, who alleged over $80 million in damages. Eric then leveraged that dismissal to settle a separate contract dispute with the same parties, resulting in a substantial monetary sum for his client.
• $9,149,995.00 Verdict (2021): Working alongside Jesus Garcia, Eric secured a jury-trial verdict in Fort Bend County that included compensatory, consequential, and punitive damages in favor of an investor who was defrauded by her business partner.
• $1,650,000.00 Settlement (2021): Recovered compensation in a contract dispute for a Houston-based logistics company handling international shipping and storage of drilling rigs in Venezuela.
• $8,000,000.00 Settlement (2017): Collaborated with Jesus Garcia to recover substantial damages for a manufacturer of oil field equipment in a contract dispute with the equipment’s national distributor.

Publications & Presentations

Publications

• “Cybersecurity and Disaster Recovery Issues for Law Firms,” The Houston Lawyer, Vol. 53, Number 4, Jan-Feb. 2016
• Selected for publication in The Computer & Internet Lawyer, Vol. 33, No. 12, 2016.

Presentations

• “Navigating Arbitration: Avoidance, Approach, & Aftermath”
  • Personal Injury CLE, South Texas College of Law, 2025,
  • Personal Injury CLE, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, 2024
• “The Verdict Is In! … Now What? How to Get a Proper Final Judgment in Texas”
  • Personal Injury CLE, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, 2023
• “Data Breach: What Attorneys Need to Know”
  • CLE at Schwartz, Junell, Greenberg & Oathout, 2013

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