"Sexual activity between people who are known to each other either platonically or sexually is called date rape. This form of sexual assault occurs during a social interaction between the rapist and the victim. It may be planned or spontaneous. A Bureau of Justice study reported that the majority of women raped, 68 percent, knew their rapist as a boyfriend, friend or casual acquaintance.*

Sexual Harassment is lewd, obscene, harassing conduct by an employer, which may be coupled with inappropriate touching, groping, fondling, or unwanted sexual contact by an employer. Many times sexual harassment includes repeated sexual comments, sexual innuendo, and unwanted sexual touching or unwanted sexual contact by an employer.

Physical Assault is unwanted contact usually resulting in bodily injury, such as a black eye, bruising, broken bones, or fractures. Physical assault can also include unwanted touching or groping. In Texas a person can bring a civil cause of action for an assault, unwanted touching, that does not cause a physical injury. This would include assaults such as slapping another person in the face, touching another person on their breast or genitals without their consent.

Domestic Violence is physical abuse directed toward a spouse, girlfriend, or domestic partner. Usually this is seen as physical violence by men against women, however, there are cases involving assaults by women on their husbands and between same sex domestic partners. Domestic violence includes threats of violence, intentional infliction of emotional distress, mental abuse, mental cruelty, threats, infliction of fear and submission, and may include forced or rough sex or rape against a spouse, partner or girlfriend. The common thread in these cases is control by the abuser.

A hate crime is a crime that is motivated by race, religion, disability, gender or ethnicity/national origin or other prejudice. The victim's actual status is irrelevant - for example, it is a hate crime if an attacker attacks someone because he or she believes a victim is Black, or mentally handicapped, or of a certain ethnicity or national origin, even if it is not actually true.

There are cases in which a person may be a victim of a Sexual Exploitation although they actually consented to having sexual relations with the offender. These cases usually hinge on relationships involving trust and positions of power, including these relationships: doctor-patient, therapist-patient, clergy-penitent, lawyer-client, educator-student, and professor-student.

Our firm represents victims of motor vehicle collisions, motorcycle collisions, and boating collisions caused by drunk drivers, intoxicated drivers, or impaired drivers. This includes injury or death of pedestrians, motorcyclists, bicyclists, passengers, and other drivers caused by drunk, intoxicated, or impaired drivers.

Our firm represents victims of motor vehicles collisions, motorcycle collisions, and boating collisions caused by negligent and reckless drivers. This includes injury or death of a pedestrian, passenger, or other driver caused by a negligent or reckless driver.

Wrongful death is a personal injury case against another person or entity that resulted in fatal injuries that caused the victim’s death. A cause of action for wrongful death against the negligent or reckless person or entity that caused the death actually “survives” the death of the victim. Wrongful death actions can be pursued by the surviving spouse, child, or parent of the deceased victim in Texas. These cases include motor vehicle collisions, car accidents, motorcycle accidents, boating accidents, pedestrian-auto accidents, bicycle-auto accidents, and death caused by a dangerous piece of machinery or dangerous product, death caused by an accident at a job site or the workplace.

In Texas, it is illegal to secretly videotape or photograph a person who is nude or in a state of undress without their consent. This type of illegal action is an Invasion of Privacy of the victim and entitles the victim to sue the perpetrator for monetary damages in a court of law. It is also illegal to stalk someone and invade their privacy by following them and gaining access to their personal and private lives. This includes persons who illegally intercept others email accounts or hack into email accounts to read their victim’s personal emails. A victim of an Invasion of Privacy, like this, can sue the perpetrator for money damages and also seek a permanent injunction from a court to prevent the perpetrator from coming near the victim again or bothering the victim.

A stalker is someone who tries to control his or her victim through behavior or threats intended to intimidate and terrify. A stalker can be an unknown person, an acquaintance or a former intimate partner. A stalker's state of mind can range from obsessive love to obsessive hatred. A stalker may follow a victim off an on for a period of days, weeks or even years. A stalking victim feels reasonable fear of damage to property, bodily injury or death to self, family or household member.

Disclosure of intimate and offensive material about someone, slight misrepresentations that place someone in a false light, or appropriation of someone's name or likeness (for example, unauthorized use of someone's photo) are all actionable.  In Texas, Invasion of Privacy is an intentional tort with three distinct causes of action:

1. Intrusion into seclusion or solitude or into private affairs;
2. Public disclosure of embarrassing facts;
3. Appropriation, for commercial advantage, of a person's name or likeness.