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Biography
Andrew Sher is a Houston Attorney at Law and for over 20 years, Andrew Sher has been protecting people and the environment. Sher has an AV® Preeminent™* Peer Review Rating and has distinguished himself as an elite environmental, personal injury attorney and business trial lawyer. Sher is a graduate from The University of Texas at Austin (B.B.A., 1991) and The University of Houston Law Center (J.D., 1993). He is bar licensed in both Texas (1994) and Colorado (1995). Sher has also regularly been selected for inclusion as a Super Lawyer by Thomson Reuters as published in Texas Monthly and as one of Houston’s Top Lawyers by H-Texas.
Although located in Houston, Sher’s practice has taken him to jurisdictions all over Texas and many venues across the United States. As a personal injury attorney, Houston Attorney Andrew Sher has extensive experience prosecuting a wide variety of lawsuits including those arising from environmental and natural resource damage, complex commercial disputes and catastrophic personal injury matters on behalf of individuals, public and private companies as well as governmental entities. Houston Attorney Andrew Sher has represented land and mineral owners, such as ranchers, farmers, developers, Indian tribes, cities and states. His clients cumulatively own more than a million acres across Texas and the continental United States. “We are very selective about our cases, which means more personal service and better results for our clients.”
Andrew Sher born in Durban, Republic of South Africa, 1969; admitted to bar, 1994, Texas; 1995, Colorado; and 1996-2011, U.S. District Courts, Southern District of Texas; Western District of Texas; Northern District of Texas; Eastern District of Texas; and 2004, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Received 1991, B.B.A., Petroleum Land Management, The University of Texas at Austin and 1993, J.D., The University of Houston Law Center. Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation; Member, State Bar of Texas, Colorado Bar Association, American Bar Association, Houston Bar Association, Fort Bend County Bar Association, American Association for Justice, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, and Houston Trial Lawyers Association.
For more than 20 years, Mr. Sher has been practicing in the area of environmental, personal injury and civil trial litigation representing clients in federal and state courts located in Texas, New Mexico, California, Colorado, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and other states. Mr. Sher is a Martindale Hubbell AV® Preeminent™* Peer Review Rated Attorney with exceptional experience and capabilities. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991 and obtaining his J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center in 1993, Mr. Sher spent ten years actively litigating cases with a nationally recognized civil trial law firm before founding The Sher Law Firm, PLLC, in 2003. Mr. Sher founded his law firm on the belief that he could establish “a small law firm by choice, with big-firm experience and capabilities.” Since its inception, the firm has been actively engaged in prosecuting a wide variety of cases involving catastrophic personal injuries, dangerous drugs and products, environmental pollution claims, toxic exposure injuries, oil & gas lease and royalty disputes, real estate fraud, business, commercial and breach of contract torts, intellectual property claims and eminent domain, right-of-way, easement and water rights disputes.
Houston Attorney Andrew Sher was an invited speaker at the first annual Clear Gold Summit in September, 1999 concerning private property rights and surface and groundwater resources in the State of Texas. The Clear Gold Summit, an invitation only event, launched the debate on Water in Texas – A Commodity for the 21st Century and was attended by selected representatives with experience and expertise involving water issues from across the State. In the fall of 1999, Mr. Sher was also designated Special Assistant Attorney General by Attorney General Patricia A. Madrid for the purpose of litigating environmental enforcement actions on behalf of the State of New Mexico. In 2008, the Texas Bar Foundation Board of Trustees elected Mr. Sher to serve as a Life Fellow to the Texas Bar Foundation “in recognition of service and devotion to the highest traditions of the Bar.” Mr. Sher has also regularly been selected for inclusion as a Super Lawyer by Thomson Reuters as published in Texas Monthly for “Environmental Litigation” and as one of Houston’s Top Lawyers by H-Texas Magazine.