ABOUT US

Jim E. Lavine

Our attorneys are highly experienced and well-versed in a variety of issues related to criminal law in Texas, federal, and military courts. Trust in our expertise to achieve the best outcome for your case.

Of Counsel

Jim E. Lavine

Defense lawyer, former prosecutor in Chicago, Illinois and in Houston, Texas 

Education

  • Juris Doctor from Illinois Institute of Technology – Chicago Kent College of Law
  • Bachelor of Arts from Williams College

Bar ADMISSIONS

  • Texas
  • Illinois
  • United States Supreme Court
  • United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Seventh, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits
  • All United States District Courts in Texas
  • United States District Court in the Northern District of Illinois
  • United States District Court in the Western District of Oklahoma

Bar Association Memberships

  • National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Former President)
  • Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (Former Director)
  • Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association (Former President)

Jim E. Lavine is a former prosecutor in Chicago, Illinois (six years) and in Houston, Texas (five years).

Mr. Lavine represents clients at trial and on appeal in state and federal courts, as well as before professional licensing boards. He also represents individual and corporate clients in regulatory compliance matters and as witnesses, suspects, or targets in grand jury investigations.

Mr. Lavine is a Past President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Mr. Lavine is a former member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, a former director of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, and a former President of the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association.

Mr. Lavine has been recognized from 2003-2025 by Law & Politics as a Super Lawyer (an outstanding lawyer who has attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement), published in Super Lawyers Magazine. Mr. Lavine and Mr. Zimmermann were named attorneys of the year for 2005-2006 by the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association and were also named as the outstanding lawyers in the state for 2005-2006 by the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. In 2007, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers presented the Robert C. Heeney Award to Mr. Lavine. This is NACDL’s most prestigious award, given annually to the one criminal defense attorney who personally and professionally best exemplifies the goals and values of the Association and the legal profession. In 2013, in Chicago, Mr. Lavine was honored by his law school, Illinois Institute of Technology – Chicago Kent College of Law, as one of its outstanding alumni in its 125 year existence.

Mr. Lavine is married and has three children.