Lisa Vance is a trial lawyer who has won significant defense verdicts for companies with challenging disputes. These include dangerous vicarious liability claims of sexual assault and murder as well as document-intensive national litigation. Ms. Vance has tried first impression cases at all levels of state and federal courts throughout the southwest, arguing emergent theories of law in trial and on appeal.
In the last several years, Ms. Vance’s practice has included a central focus on family and marital disputes. She promotes a gentler focus on marital termination, convinced that a family’s energies should be spent on the healthy development of children, rather than concentrating on marital angst. Ms. Vance works closely with mental health providers, so that clients can heal, rather than continue to wound those they do, and have, loved. As a result, the firm promotes collaborative law for marital disputes, whenever appropriate. When necessary, however, to protect families, Ms Vance's trial skills successfully promote the best interests of her clients and their children.
As an early provider of legal services to web companies engaged in e-commerce, Ms. Vance’s privacy and internet-related commerce interests remain a consistent facet of her law practice. Ms. Vance is a frequent lecturer on HIPAA and other privacy-related topics, having addressed UK pharmaceutical companies about American privacy rights and Texas psychologists. She is published on the web.
Lisa A. Vance is an AV rated lawyer and the firm is registered in the Martindale-Hubble Bar Register of Pre-Eminent Lawyers; her peers have granted her the highest level possible for competence and ethics. Ms. Vance has recently been elected “Woman of the Year” (in her field) by the National Association of Professional and Executive Women, been recognized as one of the “Best Family Lawyers in San Antonio” by SA Monthly since the inception of the publication, which will again list Lisa Vance in the August 2008 publication. Ms. Vance, a member of the College of the State Bar of Texas, has been listed in the 2003-2006 edition of Best Lawyers in America. She is an Outstanding Lawyer of America, has been a Texas Super Lawyer (limited to the top 5% of lawyers in the state) and has been recognized for the past two years as one of the Best of the U.S. lawyers. She is also listed in Who’s Who in American Law. Ms. Vanceis included in the National Association of Professional and Executive Women for inclusion in the registry for “Women of Excellence.”
Ms. Vance received her BA with honors from The University of Texas at Austin in 1977 and her JD from St. Mary’s University School of Law in 1981. She is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Texas, The United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, the United States Court of International Trade and the Supreme Court of the United States. Lisa is board certified in Personal Injury Trial Law, which expertise is often relied upon by clients seeking help with privacy issues.