Scherr Legate
About the firm
Scherr Legate PLLC is a personal injury and employment law firm based in El Paso, Texas, representing individuals injured in auto accidents, trucking crashes, workplace accidents, and other catastrophic incidents across Texas and New Mexico. The firm has handled over 250 wrongful death and jury trials and donated $1 million to establish the Scherr Legate Trauma Center at University Medical Center in El Paso.
Notable results
A Santa Fe jury awarded $165.5 million, the largest verdict in New Mexico history, to the survivors of a young mother and her daughter killed when a FedEx tractor-trailer plowed into their stopped pickup at highway speed on Interstate 10.
An El Paso jury awarded more than $4 million on behalf of an auto dealership employee who was catastrophically injured when a co-worker's truck struck her in the dealership parking lot after hours, and the Texas Supreme Court in June 2023 blocked an attempt to retry the case, locking in the verdict.
A Phillips County, Arkansas jury awarded $2.5 million to tire shop owner Michael Snyder after a Chinese-made tire with an antiquated weftless bead design exploded during mounting, causing a serious head injury.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
