Ranelle Meroney is a Partner in the firm’s Austin office. She has been trial lawyer for more than 35 years and has tried over 100 first-chair jury trials across the state of Texas. She focuses primarily on the defense of personal injury, property damage, employment, and construction cases, with a special emphasis on premises liability matters.
- Presentation of Evidence: Seeing is Believing,” Austin Bar Association: 14th Annual Ultimate Trial Notebook Seminar, Austin, Texas, October 2018
- Dealing With Outside Counsel: Lessons Learned From Baseball, Texas Lawyer’s In-House Counsel Summit, March 30, 2016
- Paid or Incurred, Subrogation/Liens, In-house Claims Handling Seminar, 2014
- Secondary Payer, Medicare Update, In-house Claims Handling Seminar, 2011-2014
Admissions
- Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern, Southern, and Western Districts of Texas
- U.S. Supreme Court
Memberships
- State Bar of Texas
- Litigation Section
- Construction Section
- Austin Bar Association
- Texas Association of Defense Counsel
- Defense Research Institute
- American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)
- Advocate
- President, Austin Chapter, 2019
- Foundation of the American Board of Trial Advocates, Fellow
- Association of Defense Trial Attorneys
- College of the State Bar of Texas
- Barbara Jordan Inn of Court, Founding Master
Education
- J.D., University of Texas School of Law, 1979
- B.A., with distinction, University of Colorado Boulder, 1977
- Phi Beta Kappa
Honors
- Board Certified, Personal Injury Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization
- Preeminent® Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell® Judicial Edition
- Austin’s Top Attorneys for Civil Law Litigation, Austin Monthly Magazine, 2020-2021
- Best Lawyers in America® distinction in Construction Law, 2021-2026, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, 2022-2025, Litigation – Construction, 2025-2026, Litigation – Labor and Employment, 2025-2026
- Super Lawyers® Distinction, 2016-2019
- Honorary Member of Board of Barristers, University of Texas School of Law
- Pathfinder Award, Travis County Women Lawyers Association, 2014
- Outstanding Achievement Award, Travis County Women Lawyers Association, 2013