Practice/Organization Description
Alicia D. Butler, Esq., has spent her eleven-year legal career primarily working as an advocate for ordinary people victimized by corporate wrongdoing. Since January 2006, she has served of counsel to the Law Offices of Joel M. Fineberg, P.C., in Dallas, Texas, handling medical malpractice cases and providing as-needed help on commercial class-actions.
Formerly a shareholder at the Dallas law firm of Baron & Budd, P.C., Ms. Butler represented plaintiffs in toxic tort actions for eight years under the tutelage of renowned trial lawyer Frederick M. Baron. In her work at Baron & Budd, Ms. Butler's clients included hundreds of residents in a community exposed to radiation from two nuclear fuel facilities in Pennsylvania, dozens of workers exposed to beryllium at facilities operated by the U.S. Department of Energy, the City of Santa Monica in its successful fight to hold industry accountable for MTBE contamination of the public water supply, and more than 1,500 workers injured by exposures to mercury, lead, benzene, asbestos, beryllium, arsenic, silica, and other substances at a lighting plant in West Virginia.
Ms. Butler began her legal career after graduating with honors from the University of Texas School of Law in 1996. Before going into private practice as a plaintiff's lawyer, she served as a briefing attorney to Justice Rose Spector of the Texas Supreme Court, and as an Americorps*VISTA volunteer creating employment law resources for Bexar County Legal Aid in San Antonio, Texas.
Education
University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with honors, 1996
Rice University, B.A. English and Sociology, magna cum laude (1992)
