Chip Lewis

Erin Epley is a Board Certified criminal trial lawyer representing clients in high-stakes federal and state criminal matters across Texas and in federal matters nationwide. She focuses on investigation, negotiation, and trial work for clients facing white collar charges, public integrity allegations, violent crime accusations, serious felonies, and reputation-sensitive criminal investigations. With more than 18 years of experience and over 80 jury trials, Erin brings rare insight from both sides of the courtroom. She began her legal career as a prosecutor in the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, where she specialized in Public Integrity and sex-crimes/vulnerable-victims prosecution and rose to District Court Chief. She later moved into defense work alongside nationally recognized criminal defense lawyer Chip Lewis, an experience that deepened her defense perspective and sharpened her approach to high-stakes state and federal trial work. Erin later served as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas. During her federal service, she earned a Top Secret clearance, served as liaison to the ATF Crime Gun Strike Force, and prosecuted serious violent crime and complex federal matters involving antitrust, extortion, money laundering, and cross-border criminal conduct. Erin’s defense practice is built for clients facing consequential legal, professional, and reputational risk. She is known for direct advice, disciplined preparation, and the ability to evaluate a case through the eyes of prosecutors, judges, and trial lawyers — identifying what the government can prove, where the case is vulnerable, and how to build leverage before critical decisions are made. In 2023, Erin was appointed Chief Counsel and Director of the Texas House General Investigating Committee, where she led the investigation and served as trial counsel in the impeachment proceedings involving Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. As part of a trial team with Rusty Hardin and Dick DeGuerin, she examined witnesses and presented evidence before the Texas Senate.