About Us

Shaw & Associates is not your typical law firm. We believe in cures, not palliatives.

That’s why in more than 1,000 cases ranging from minor accidental injury, to complex malpractice, to product liabilityand to medical peer review, Shaw and Associates has earned a reputation for aggressive litigation, tough negotiations, and early dismissals.

Our goal, simply, is to keep you and your practice out of harm’s way. But when conflict is unavoidable, we’ll serve up strong medicine, in the maximum dose.

The people who serve you include:

Diane K. Shaw, J.D.

 

 

• Graduate of South Texas College of Law (now Texas A&M University Law School).
• Admitted to practice in the U.S. District Courts, Northern, Eastern and Southern Districts of Texas; and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
• Member of the Texas Bar, Dallas Bar, American Bar, Dallas Association of Defense Counsel, Dallas and Texas Bar Foundations, American North Texas Society for Healthcare Risk Management.
• Former Dallas Inns of Court Barrister member.
• Past Committee Chair, State Bar rules of Evidence Committee.
• Currently serves on the Federal Criminal Justice Panel.
• Member, Dallas County Medical Society Circle of Friends.
• Member, Tarrant County Medical Society Family.

Before starting her law firm in 1995, Ms. Shaw was a partner with the law firms of Bailey & Williams and Fowler, Wiles, Norton & Keith. She has 25 years of trial experience focusing on medical malpractice defense, SOAH, State and federal compliance with health care laws, tort and insurance reform, and general civil litigation.  She maintains ad-litem certification and completed advanced mediation education to best serve as mediator in hundreds of cases.

Kimberly Land Cormier, J.D.

 

• Graduate of St. Mary’s University School of Law.
• President, Board of Advocates, St. Mary’s.
• B.B.A, The University of Texas at Austin.
• Former, Dallas Inns of Court member.
• Founding Member, Connect Her, Professional Women’s Networking Group.
• Admitted to practice before the Northern District of Texas.
• Member of the Texas Bar Association, Dallas Bar Association and Dallas Association of Defense Counsel.

Ms. Cormier has more than 15 years of first-chair trial experience. Her practice areas include medical malpractice defense, first and third party personal injury and commercial claims, medical malpractice, premises liability, automobile and general commercial liability claims and family law.  Ms. Cormier has been a certified mediator for more than a decade and serves as a guardian ad litem in District and County Courts.

Tina M. Price, J.D.

• Graduate of Texas Wesleyan University School of Law.
• BSW, University of Texas at Arlington.
• Admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court, Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas.
• Member of the Texas Bar, Texas Bar, Family Law Section; Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association.
• Former Eldon B. Mahon Inns of Court (Tarrant County) member.
• Past Committee Co-Chair, Tarrant County Bar Association, Lawyers Against Domestic Violence.

Ms. Price has trial experience focusing on administrative healthcare compliance, guardianship, and family law including but not limited to serving as Ad Litem for social security disability, divorce, child custody, and child support.

Jason Klotz, J.D.

 

• Graduate of Southern Methodist University
• B.A., The University of Texas at Austin
• Admitted to practice in Texas
• Admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
• Member of the Texas Bar, Dallas Bar and Dallas Young Lawyers Association

Mr. Klotz devotes his practice to health care legal matters, including defense of health care providers against liability claims involving medical malpractice, wrongful death, and commercial and employment-related matters.  He has extensive experience representing hospitals, physicians and professional organizations in a myriad of complex litigation matters and other legal issues, including insurance coverage disputes, insurance defense, construction law, contract law, social security disability, employment law, family law, and compliance and general civil litigation.  He also has extensive knowledge about current health care rules and regulations and far-reaching research skills that provide for innovative approaches to legal matters.

Brenda J. Damuth, J.D.

 

• Graduate of Baylor University Law School.
• American Academy of Attorney-Mediators.
• Board-certified in personal injury trial law.
• AV-rated by Martindale in complicated legal issues, catastrophic damages.

Ms. Damuth has extensive first-chair trial experience in a wide range of personal injury disputes and has mediated more than 200 negligence cases, including professional medical malpractice and nursing home cases. She also lectures nationally on medico-legal and nursing home litigation.