Brooks Schuelke has been handling civil litigation matters since 1995.

Our experience makes us different. A significant portion of Brooks's prior practice was devoted to legal malpractice claims suing lawyers when they screw up.
This gives us a different perspective on what it means to provide quality legal services and to serve clients.

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ABOUT BROOKS

Why hire Schuelke Law?

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We're respected by our peers. Brooks was the 2013-2014 president of the Capital Area Trial Lawyers Association, Central Texas's largest association of trial lawyers. He has served on CATLA's executive committee for several years. In 2020, CATLA awarded Brooks with the Judge Scott Ozmun Trial Lawyer of the Year award. Brooks is also proud that his clients have included a number of lawyers or family members of lawyers, those who know quality legal services when they see it.

We also write and speak about the law. Brooks has written or edited a number of different articles and papers about litigation issues. In the last few years, he has given numerous continuing education speeches to lawyers across the state (and country) on issues relating to lawyer ethics and uninsured/underinsured motorist claims.

Brooks is a diehard Longhorn. He graduated from the prestigious
University of Texas Business Honors Program in 1992 and received his
J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law in 1995.

Brooks is also very active in the community. On the legal side, he has served on numerous public service committees, such as the Austin Young Lawyers Association, Austin Bar Association and the Texas Young Lawyers Association.

He also stays busy outside the legal field. Brooks is proud to be one of three founders and an initial board member of Justice For Our Neighbors-Austin (opened in 2014), a legal clinic that provides free or low-cost legal services to immigrants.

Brooks is also an active volunteer for many organizations, including the Seedling Foundation, which provides mentors to children whose parents are incarcerated. For the last thirteen years, Brooks has served as a mentor, typically spending one lunch hour every week or so during the school year meeting with his mentees (now with obvious exceptions for Covid).

Brooks has also helped set up and serve in the First United Methodist Church Pickle Elementary Book "Sale". Brooks and his wife helped start and still actively volunteer in the program, which collects books and distributes them to children at Pickle Elementary in East Austin. Over the years, the program has distributed over 50,000 books to the kids. Brooks has been at every distribution day except one (due to an uncooperative defense lawyer).

Brooks is also the current United Methodist Church Capital District Lay Leader, helping oversee the 50+ United Methodist churches in the Austin area. As part of that work, he has worked extensively on mission projects both in Austin and around the world, including helping to create a long-term partnership with a health clinic and school in the West African village of Diecke, Guinea.

Recently, Brooks has spent significant time on the redevelopment of Parker Lane United Methodist Church. After this church closed, the church entered into an innovative partnership with Foundation Communities to use the property to create an affordable housing project.

In the past, Brooks has served on the board of directors for the Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve, including serving two terms as president of the board. He is also an alumnus of Leadership Austin (Class of 2006).

Brooks and his wife, Heather, have two children, Kennedy and Ryan, and the family has struck gold in the college choice area. Ryan is studying marine biology and playing baseball at Hawaii Pacific University on Oahu. And Kennedy, after graduating with her BS in Health and Human Services and a BA in Dance from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, has joined her brother and is in the Hawaii Pacific University Doctorate of Physical Therapy program. The family also has a well-loved (and spoiled) dog.

To learn more about Brooks, his family, and things important to us, feel free to view our past firm newsletters.

ARTICLES & VIDEOS

Below are some informational articles and videos I have written to help you stay informed about Texas personal injury issues — and how you can protect your rights.

Auto Accidents: Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist Frequently Asked Questions

Car wreck property damage video FAQs

Car Wrecks — Auto Insurance Basics

Your Case Has Settled. What Now? How Are Settlement Proceeds Distributed?

Discovery: What Is A Request For Disclosure?

Resolving the Personal Injury Claims of Minors

Resolving Your Property Damage Claim

Personal Injury Protection and Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist Coverage

MARK PERLMUTTER

Mark Perlmutter,

Mark Perlmutter, of counsel to the firm, has practiced as a trial lawyer for over twenty-five years, successfully representing clients in personal injury, legal and medical malpractice, employment, business, and class action litigation. He’s also been mediating cases in those areas for over 15 years. He’s been teaching at the University of Texas School of Law for a decade. He’s served as President of the Travis County Bar Association, the Austin Young Lawyers Association, and Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas. He has also taught in UT’s elite undergraduate honors program for four years, where he was one of UT’s highest-rated professors and received a teaching award from the University of Texas Liberal Arts Council. Mark’s courses, Trialmasters and Managing Human Differences, focus on personal and professional development, and instill in students powerful persuasion, negotiation, and listening skills along with a sense of purpose, ethics, and integrity.

Mark has been honored both as a legal innovator by The Texas Lawyer and as a “Superlawyer” by Law & Politics Magazine.

He has chaired the State Bar of Texas Professionalism Committee, served on the State Bar’s Texas Disciplinary Rules Committee, the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors, and helped author the Texas Lawyers Creed. Mark is also a co-producer of Lifetime Television’s Scared Silent, a movie based on a case in which he represented five women who were sexually assaulted by a deputy sheriff.

His education includes a bachelor of science in communication from Northwestern University, a law degree from the University of Texas School of Law, and (current) course work towards a Masters degree in counseling psychology at Argosy University, San Francisco Bay Area Campus. He has also received training in Systems Centered Therapy® for over seven years and has been certified as a Group Facilitator by M. Scott Peck’s Foundation for Community Encouragement.

He is the author of Why Lawyers (and the rest of us) Lie and Engage in Other Repugnant Behavior, a book about the courage to look inwardly in order to more effectively resolve conflict.

Mark has been coaching students and private clients since 2002.

Testimonials

Brooks was wonderful to work with . I felt he gave honest and realistic advice, and always let me make my own decisions with as much information as he could provide. I highly recommend him and I'll be referring any friends to him that need his services!

- Miriam Keaton (a personal injury client)

I pride myself on explaining things to clients. If clients don't understand something about their claim, they can't make good decisions. We try to explain things in details during meetings and in correspondence. We want you to know and understand what's going on.

-Brooks Schuelke