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DuBOSE WITH HIS WIFE, ALIISA.
ADallas native, DuBose knew by high school he wanted to be a lawyer. “I didn’t know yet what area of the law would be my focus, but I knew I wanted to stand-up for and help regular people. Once I clerked for a small personal injury rm during law school, I knew that was the practice area
for me.”
DuBose is now in his 23rd year as a personal injury attorney and his
rm, DuBose Law Firm, PLLC, has entered its second decade doing exactly what he set out to do long ago. “Our practice is devoted exclu- sively to helping individuals who have been harmed,” he says.
DuBose says he always wanted to open his own rm, and a er 12 years practicing at two prominent personal injury rms, he made the move – just a few months before the 2008 recession hit. “ e stock market crashed three or four months a er I hung out my own shingle. at was an interesting time to start a practice. It was challenging, but I wouldn’t change a bit of it,” he says.
BREAKING NEW GROUND, OIL FIELDS AND EMPLOYMENT LAW
DuBose and his rm have earned a reputation for successfully rep- resenting people su ering from mesothelioma and lung cancer. Cli- ents o en worked in blue-collar elds, such as pipe tters, insulators, boilermakers, operators, millwrights, mechanics, drywallers, electri- cians, railroad workers and military service.
When DuBose began representing these clients in the late nineties, mesothelioma was virtually unheard of in the media. One of the rst jobs he had was working at a large rm that had a national asbestos practice. He was fascinated by the combination of three factors: sci- ence, history and the law.
“I saw I could help people by representing them in cases that were very interesting. e work involved science – what causes cancer, the toxicity of asbestos and the method of exposure. It also involved his- tory, in a sense, because the latency period for developing an asbestos related cancer is 30 to 50 years from the time of exposure. So the cases all deal with events that happened in the 1950s, 60s or 70s.”
DuBose received national attention for his investigation of the as- bestos content of mud additives in oil eld drilling. “Up to the mid- 1980s, there were companies selling asbestos in 50 lb. bags for rough- necks to dump down the hole. You can imagine what damage to the human lungs exposure to that dust can cause.”
e rm represents clients in three practice areas: asbestos product liability; serious personal injury cases; and employment law matters. DuBose has handled several pro bono cases including representing the family of a woman who perished in the 9/11 attacks by seeking compensation from the September 11th Victims Compensation Fund.
Employment law, in recent years, has been another area where Du- Bose has expanded his rm’s practice. “We present individuals in em- ployment claims involving overtime pay, minimum wage violations and other employment law matters,” says DuBose. “In employment law cases, we again get to help everyday people who’ve fallen through the cracks or been treated unfairly in the workplace. Wage and hour violations extend across industries and our rm is proud to tackle these cases.”
He and his rm o en represent clients facing desperate personal and nancial stress. DuBose says, “It’s an honor to represent ordinary people who are going through extraordinary circumstances. To be able
ALIISA AND DuBOSE WITH THEIR CHILDREN, ANALISE, HARRISON AND AUDREY.
In employment law cases we again get to help everyday people who’ve fallen through the cracks or been treated unfairly in the workplace.”
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