Our Cases in the News
- Holding Government Accountable After a Massacre at Sutherland Springs w/ Jamal Alsaffar, Lawyer Minds Podcast, August 10, 2021
- Air Force Found Largely Responsible for Texas Church Shooting, Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2021
- Air Force mostly responsible for church massacre in Sutherland Springs, Tex., judge says, Washington Post, July 7, 2021
- Court Rules US Government Liable to Mass Shooting Victims in Sutherland Springs Church Massacre, Law.com, July 7, 2021
- Judge finds U.S. 60% responsible for 2017 Texas church mass shooting, Reuters, July 7, 2021
- Judge says Air Force liable in Sutherland Springs shooting, San Antonio Express-News, July 7, 2021
- Judge rules Air Force bears 60 percent of responsibility for Sutherland Springs massacre, WOAI-TV San Antonio, July 7, 2021
- Judge Rules US Air Force Largely Responsible For Sutherland Springs Shooting, Texas Public Radio, July 7, 2021
- ‘He Was the Angel of Death’: Trial Over Sutherland Springs Shooting Concludes, Courthouse News, April 20, 2021
- Feds argue Air Force not liable for Sutherland Springs massacre, or only partly responsible, San Antonio Express-News, April 13, 2021
- Air Force Can’t Escape Suit Over Ex-Airman’s Mass Shooting, Law360, January 8, 2021
- Courts Slash Governmental Immunity, Allowing Mass Shooting Victims to Sue, Law.com, September 5, 2019
- U.S. Air Force could face liability in Texas shooting: legal experts, Reuters, November 9, 2017
- San Antonio judge sanctions government lawyers for keeping names from Sutherland Springs survivors, San Antonio Express-News, September 25, 2017
- Air Force could face record lawsuits over mass shooting, Stars and Stripes, November 13, 2017
- At a four-star veterans’ hospital: Care gets ‘worse and worse,’ Boston Globe, July 15, 2017
- Tragedy and injustice: The heartbreaking truth about military medical malpractice, Military Times, July 10, 2016
- When the Mother is a Soldier: Column, USA Today, November 27, 2015
- Military Family Presses Novel Gender-Bias Case Before the Supreme Court, National Law Journal, October 15, 2015
- Law prevents some family members from suing the military, Military Times, July 5, 2015
- Reproductive Malpractice and the Military, Huffington Post, July 4, 2015
- Court orders VA to pay stroke victim $21 million in malpractice case, Washington Post, April 15, 2015 (clients received $15,884,511.98 after attorneys’ fees and expenses)
- Is the Feres Doctrine fair? Stars and Stripes, June 19, 2011
Firm recognition
- Firm and partners featured on Austin’s Top Attorneys 2021 list in Austin Monthly.
- Whitehurst, Harkness, Brees, Cheng, Alsaffar, Higginbotham, and Jacob, PLLC are listed on the US News Best Law Firms List
- All partners and firm recognized as Austin’s Top Attorneys 2020 in Austin Monthly
- All partners named Super Lawyers in Texas Monthly by Thomson Reuters, September 8, 2015
Speaking engagements
- Jamal Alsaffar presented at the 2021 Arkansas Trial Lawyer Association Annual Convention on taking effective Zoom depositions.