Employee Spotlight: Maria Escamilla
The Advocate Capital, Inc. Employee Spotlight Award recognizes team members who personify our Company Core Values: Professionalism, Integrity, Continuous Improvement, Teamwork, and Service.
The Q-4 2020 winner from our Client Management/Training Team is Maria Escamilla, Executive Client Manager.
Maria joined the Advocate Team as a Quality Assurance Analy...
Greening Law, PC Gives Back to the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center
Advocate Capital, Inc. is proud of the great work our clients do both in the courtroom and in their communities. For the second year in a row, our friends at GreeningLaw, PC, have taken part in the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center’s (“DCAC”) annual Holiday of Hope.
DCAC began working with the children in the Dallas, Texas area in 1991. Today, they serv...
Advocate Cares: WhyHunger
Authored by: Ollie Lammers
Our team loves giving back to our community and making a difference.
While we are still working from home to keep our team safe, we still wanted to find a way to give back to our community.
For the month of December, we decided to make a donation to WhyHunger.
This nonprofit works to provide resources to support grassroots organ...
The Importance of Opioid Litigation with Jeffrey Simon
In this podcast episode, CEO and Chairman Michael J. Swanson, interviews Attorney Jeffrey Simon of Simon Greenstone Panatier, to discuss the importance of opioid litigation.
Attorney Simon goes into detail on how opioids impact the body and what has lead to the opioid crisis.
Jeffrey Simon explains how opioid litigation is helping communities that are bei...
Happy Thanksgiving From Advocate Cares
Because of the pandemic, many of us will celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday differently this year. Many families directly impacted by the pandemic may be unable to have dinner on Thanksgiving Day.
Advocate Capital employees now work from home, so we donated our usual employee Thanksgiving dinner funds to three non-profit agencies that will provide meals t...
The Importance of Worker’s Rights in the Meat Packing Industry with Public Justice
In this podcast episode, CEO and Chairman Michael J. Swanson, interviews Senior Attorney Karla Gilbride and Ameesha Sampat, Food Project Outreach Manager of Public Justice, to discuss the importance of worker’s rights in the meatpacking industry.
Ms. Sampat goes into detail on Public Justice’s Food Project and how they are able to help communities advoca...
Law Offices of David Pierguidi PC Receives a $1 Million Settlement
Congratulations to our friends David Pierguidi and his team at the Law Offices of David Pierguidi PC on the recent $1,000,000 settlement they reached on behalf of their client in New York City.
The case involves a then fifty-four (54) year old woman who had advanced-stage ovarian cancer. On March 3, 2016, she underwent a debulking surgery with hysterecto...
Attorney John Griffith Becomes New TTLA President
Congratulations to our good friend and client, Attorney John Griffith, for his new role as President of the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association!
Griffith and his team at GriffithLaw have been fighting cases for personal injury victims for the past 20 years, and he has remained committed to serving clients through his roles in the TTLA for nearly just as l...
Advocate Capital, Inc. Named Top Consumer Litigation Funding Provider in Texas
Authored by: Amanda Unterreiner
Advocate Capital, Inc. placed in the top three for Texas Lawyers’ Best of 2020 in the Consumer Litigation Funding Provider category in two top cities in Texas.
Advocate Capital, Inc. is also in the Texas Lawyers’ Best of Hall of Fame.
Every year, Texas Lawyers identifies legal products and service providers and identifies t...
Brown Moore & Associates, PLLC $6.13 Million Verdict Upheld in the Supreme Court of North Carolina
Congratulations to our friends, R. Kent Brown and Jon R. Moore of Brown Moore & Associates, PLLC, on the $6,130,000 verdict they received on behalf of their client in the Superior Court of Cabarrus County, North Carolina.
The Defendant appealed the ruling, and the Court of Appeals set aside $5,500,000 of the verdict which represented compensation for...