Lonnie Roach, Appellate Attorney in Austin, Texas

Lonnie Roach represents clients with disability claims including long term disability
claims, ERISA disability claims and Social Security disability claims. He is Board
Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Personal Injury Trial Law.

Mr. Roach was named to the highly prestigious Super Lawyers list by Thomson Reuters in 2016 and Martindale-Hubbell recognizes him as an AV® Preeminent rated attorney, the highest such rating available to any individual lawyer.

The son of a career army officer, Lonnie Roach was born at Fort Lewis Washington in
1963. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Dallas,
where he graduated with honors with a B.A. in Political Science. He then moved to
Austin in 1988 to attend law school at the University of Texas at Austin. While in law
school, he and his close friend, Greg Reed, won the State Bar of Texas Moot Court
Competition, a prestigious State-wide competition. This was Mr. Roach’s first experience
in appellate law. He’s been winning ever since.

After completing law school, Mr. Roach began his career practicing personal injury trial
law and became Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of
Legal Specialization the first year he was eligible. In addition to his trial practice, he is
the firm’s primary appellate lawyer and has successfully argued cases before the Texas
Court of Appeals, the Texas Supreme Court, and the United States Court of Appeals,
Fifth Circuit.

It was natural that Mr. Roach’s career path would eventually lead him to the field
of ERISA law, especially as it applies to long term disability insurance. Disability
benefits cases are, by their nature, medical cases. They involve volumes of medical
records that require a solid medical background to interpret. These are the skills of a
Board Certified Personal Injury lawyer. When these cases go to trial, however, they take
on the aspect of appeals. Disabled claimants are appealing the decision of powerful
claims administrators. These trials call for the skills of an appellate attorney. Mr. Roach
is both and has become a recognized expert in the field of ERISA, Long Term Disability.

He has successfully overturned denials of disability benefits at the administrative level, at
trial in United States District Court, and at the United States Court of Appeals.
Our disability benefits legal services are state-wide. At any given time, Mr. Roach is
likely to have cases pending in all four federal districts in Texas. He is a Board Certified
Texas attorney and is admitted to the United States District Courts for the Northern
District of Texas, the Southern District of Texas, the Eastern District of Texas, and the
Western District of Texas, as well as the United States Court of appeals for the Fifth
Circuit.