- Adoption
- Criminal DefenseStephanie was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 2000. Stephanie's practice includes criminal law, personal injury and commercial litigation. She may be contacted at the firm or by email at
- RobberyNow 73, McMahan says he doesn't have personal memories of Hamilton's trials but recalls vividly people talking about them for years afterward. He says Hillsboro residents were nervous about having Hamilton in the local jail, because Clyde Barrow — of Bonnie and Clyde fame — allegedly was with Hamilton during the Bucher robbery.
- BurglaryBarrow also was tried in the Hill County Courthouse. According to Sept. 15, 1930, minutes of the 66th District Court, a jury found the outlaw guilty of burglary in State v. Barrow and sentenced him to two years in prison.
- MurderDick McMahan, a Whitney resident who is writing a book about the Bucher murder, says Hamilton shot Bucher to death. According to a March 20, 1933, order signed by then-66th District Court Judge Walter Wray, the first trial in State v. Hamilton ended in a mistrial after the jury could not agree on the verdict.
- Business Transactions
- Real Estate LitigationOur firm has a broad practice in a number of areas of the law, including litigation, both commercial and personal injury, banking, contracts and other commercial transactions, corporations and partnerships, real estate, real estate litigation, eminent domain/condemnation, oil and gas, estate planning and probate proceedings, estate litigation, mediation, municipal law, school law, criminal law and creditor bankruptcy, family law, including marriage dissolution, adoption, premarital and marital agreements. We primarily represent plaintiffs in litigation; however we do practice on both sides of the docket. This experience of working on both sides of the docket is beneficial when we defend our bank, corporate and medical clients. We serve as local counsel with many firms in the preparation and trial of litigation in Hill County courts.
- Eminent Domain
- Personal InjuryShowers was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1966, and is also admitted to the Western and Northern Districts of the U.S. District Court, and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. He now concentrates his practice primarily on major personal injury, business and commercial litigation. He may be contacted at the firm or by email at
- Estate Planning
- Probate
- Bankruptcy