Reagen E. Thomas

Criminal law is written in one place, enforced in another, and answered in a third, and she has worked in all three. At the Texas Capitol, for the chairman of the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice, her work was bail reform and prison reform⁠—the statutes themselves, and the arguments made for and against them long before anyone is charged under one.

Then three years in courtrooms across Texas, beside one of the state’s most experienced criminal defense lawyers, on homicides, federal trials, white collar prosecutions and the most serious allegations the system handles. In the same stretch she assisted the special prosecution team appointed in a state securities fraud case against a sitting statewide official⁠—the other side of the same work, which very few defense lawyers ever see from the inside.

What she is best at is finding things. Witnesses have histories. Officers have histories. People say things in places they forget are public, and so do the cameras that read every passing license plate. The fact that changes what a case is about is rarely in the file the State hands over.

There was no slow start. Her first case as a licensed attorney was a federal criminal antitrust prosecution in the Southern District of Texas⁠—a Sherman Act case, the kind most lawyers never see in a career. Federal court has been part of the practice ever since.

Her practice runs from first-time misdemeanors to first-degree felonies, in Texas state courts and in the Southern District of Texas. Homicides worked front to back. Federal trials. Human smuggling, fentanyl and conspiracy prosecutions where the exposure is measured in decades. Detention hearings reopened. White collar and fraud matters, state and federal.

She has defended clients accused of violent offenses, serious felonies, and some of the most sensitive allegations a person can face. In one such matter, a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child was dismissed after her investigation established that the complaining witness had been untruthful about her whereabouts.

Past results are not a guarantee or prediction of the outcome of any other matter. Every case turns on its own facts, its own record, and its own court.