Dara G. Hegar
Dara Hegar is the Managing Attorney of The Lanier Law Firm. She represents clients in each of the firm’s practice areas with a focus on trial coordination in complex litigation matters. While Mrs. Hegar’s proficiency spans across all of the firm’s practice areas, her specialty is providing specific insight that has resulted in many significant verdicts and settlements. She played a key role in the firm’s courtroom victories for years, including the $253 million verdict in the nation’s first Vioxx trial.
Dara earned her law degree at St. Mary’s University School of Law, where she served with distinction as Associate Editor of the Law Journal in 1998. She further served as briefing attorney to the Honorable Richard H. Edelman at the Fourteenth Court of Appeals from 1998 through 1999, before joining the Lanier Law Firm.
Practice Areas:
• General Litigation
• Personal Injury - Products: Plaintiff
• Business Litigation
- Texas Rising Stars by Thomson Reuters, 2005, 2007-2009, 2011-2013
- The National Trial Lawyers, Top 100, 2013
- Texas Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters, 2018-2021
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America - 2020
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers - 2020
- Best Lawyers in America, 2017-2021
Houston, Texas 77064
