East Texas Accident

Earl Drott is board certified in personal injury trial law and for more than 37 years has handled personal injury and wrongful death claims in Tyler and the surrounding East Texas area. With a philosophy of helping all injured people the firm may find itself working on a car wreck claim involving soft tissue injuries one day and a wrongful death case the next day. As an East Texas injury attorney Earl Drott has successfully tried a substantial number of personal injury cases to verdict. The vast majority of the firm’s injury cases are referred to the firm by past personal injury clients or area lawyers who choose to trust their personal injury clients to the firm.

While many of the firm’s clients have been involved in 18-wheeler, motorcycle, or auto accidents, with over 37 years of experience as an East Texas injury lawyer Earl Drott has developed considerable expertise in a broad range of personal injury case types. Injury victims in need of an East Texas injury lawyer should contact us today.

East Texas is the region of Texas bordered on the east by Louisiana, on the north by Oklahoma, on the south by Galveston Bay and on the west by Interstate Highway 45. The Piney Woods region takes in most of East Texas. The region is the western edge of the southern pine forests and there is little change across the South continuing on through East Texas until the pine forests give way to the Post Oak Region. East Texas takes in all or part of 49 counties. The six million residents of East Texas are concentrated in four areas: Houston, Beaumont/Port Arthur/Orange, Tyler/Longview/Marshall and Texarkana. The region has abundant rivers and lakes and is becoming a recreational destination. As Texas becomes increasingly urban with the growth of its population centers many seek to get away to the sprawling beauty and slower pace of East Texas causing tourism to become an important part of the regions ecomony. In recent years the region has seen an influx of people from other parts of the country which has fueled residential growth and construction.

Deep East Texas is a 13 county subregion of East Texas comprised of Angelina, Houston, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Shelby, Trinity, and Tyler counties. The area includes the oldest town in Texas which is Nacogdoches. Deep East Texas is sparsely populated with the density outside the population centers falling below 18 people per square mile. The discovery of the East Texas Oil Field, the largest oil field in the United States, in the 1930s brought an economic boom to the Tyler/Longview/Kilgore/Henderson area which lasted for more than 50 years. The logging industry continues to an important part of the economy of the region together with growing manufacturing, construction, health care, and retail industries.

Earl Drott Law is located in the heart of East Texas in Tyler. The firms’ offices are located in the Bank of America building in South Tyler just inside the southeast corner of Loop 323 at the intersection of South Beckham Avenue/ Hi ghway 110 South and Golden Road.