Colvin, Saenz, Rodriguez & Kennamer LLP: A South Texas Civil Defense Firm With Roots in 1950 and a Railroad Docket That Dates to the Same Year

By Expert Attorneys

Colvin, Saenz, Rodriguez & Kennamer LLP is a South Texas civil litigation firm that traces its roots to 1950, when it was founded as Sharpe, Cunningham & Garza. Founding partner Reynaldo G. Garza later became the first Hispanic U.S. Federal District Court judge. Across more than 70 years, the firm has defended businesses, manufacturers, and insurers, and it has represented Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad since that same year, 1950. It also serves as regional counsel for Ford Motor Company and represents manufacturers of vehicles, tires, construction equipment, and other products across the country.

Named partners Norton A. Colvin, Jaime A. Saenz, Joseph A. Rodriguez, and Alison Kennamer lead the current practice. The civil docket includes products liability, insurance coverage and defense, trucking defense, toxic torts, commercial and construction litigation, professional negligence, labor and employment, and family law. A manufacturer defense file and a later family-law matter can stay in the same office rather than being sent to a separate domestic-relations firm.

The firm keeps offices in Brownsville, at 1201 East Van Buren St., and in Edinburg, at 323 West Cano, Suite 100, Edinburg, TX 78539, reachable at 866-330-6805. It serves Brownsville, Edinburg, and the Rio Grande Valley, along with Harlingen, McAllen, Laredo, and Corpus Christi, and represents clients throughout South Texas in surrounding counties.

That 1950 railroad relationship, a Ford regional-counsel role, and a founding partner who later sat on the federal trial bench are not decorations on a generic defense listing. They are the history the Brownsville and Edinburg offices still practice from, more than seventy years later, under the four named partners who lead the firm now.

Insurance coverage disputes and insurance defense are distinct from a products-liability brief, and both are handled in the Brownsville and Edinburg offices. Trucking defense, toxic torts, and professional-negligence files are part of that same civil-defense docket, as is labor and employment work for the businesses the firm already represents.

Colvin, Saenz, Rodriguez & Kennamer LLP
1201 East Van Buren St., Brownsville, TX 78520
956-542-7441
https://www.rcclaw.com/