Bellevue Government & Administrative Lawyers

Linda Thomson graduated from Texas Christian University with a B.A. and Baylor University School of Law with a Juris Doctorate. As a former hearing officer with 30 years of experience, she is familiar with the procedure, testimony, and evidence needed to win the case. She works with initial applications, requests for reconsideration, requests for hearing, and appeals at all levels of the claim. She handles cases and hearings across Texas and on a national level before the Social Security Administration across the United States. She handles appeals from hearing decision denials before the Appeals Council and the Federal Courts.

Colin Durham has over 24 years of courtroom experience covering a wide range of areas. Mr. Durham's primary area of practice is civil litigation, including employment law, construction, contract, commercial, and related areas of business litigation. Mr. Durham has tried numerous jury and bench trials on behalf of his clients. His employment practice primarily consists of representing management against claims in the substantive areas of race, sex, age, religion, accommodation/discrimination, national origin, and disability discrimination, retaliation, Wage & Hour claims, workers’ compensation retaliation claims, sex harassment, contract claims and various employment related torts.

Mr. Durham’s experience in appellate work includes having...

Rider Scott's legal background includes over thirty years of work and experience at the local, state, and federal level. His legal practice involves representation of both corporate and governmental entities with transportation, land use, zoning, condemnation, utilities, special district and regulatory matters in local, state and federal venues. In addition to legal matters, Rider represents clients before the Texas Legislature and in Washington as a lobbyist. He has a track record of outcome driven results for clients before executive branch or legislative bodies. Rider was recently named the Executive Director of the Dallas Regional Mobility Coalition (DRMC). DRMC is the primary...