Our objective at The Bratton Firm is to pursue the legal rights of our clients
and achieve just compensation for their grievances to the full extent of the law, regardless of our
clients' position in society or the stature of their opponents.
Both E. Barham Bratton and R. Louis Bratton are Board Certified Personal Injury Trial Lawyers,
certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.
R. Louis Bratton is a fourth generation Austinite, and E. Barham Bratton has practiced law in
Austin for over forty years. Our firm is located in downtown Austin across the street from the
Travis County Courthouse and our longevity in and familiarity with the area has led to long-standing
relationships with the academic community, specifically The University of Texas and the medical and
professional communities of in Austin and throughout Texas. We enjoy an excellent reputation, and we believe
that this reputation serves our clients well.
We offer our clients sixty years of collective legal experience and decades
of Board Certified experience practicing personal injury law in cases state wide. Our firm specializes
in representing victims involved in serious personal injury and death cases, including nursing home
negligence, hospital negligence, medical malpractice, products liability, automobile/trucking accidents,
inappropriate sexual contact or sexual abuse by a therapist, teacher, coach, pastor or other professionals.
Our success is based on the professionalism of our attorneys and the talented staff that supports them.
The success that we have achieved for our clients has come through intensive investigation, exhaustive
discovery, the association of qualified experts, and a creative ability to communicate. We believe we can
demonstrate how suffering and tragedy have resulted from carelessness, mismanagement, negligence, greed, or
even malice. We take a personal interest in every client and promise excellent representation and a dedicated
effort. We regularly represent individuals who do not have US citizenship and who speak only a foreign language.
Our offices are in Austin, Texas, and we have represented Plaintiffs throughout the state of Texas as well as
New Mexico, Oklahoma, Missouri, and New York.