Michael S. Hull was recently included in the 2001-2002 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, an award recognized by The New York Times, Forbes, and The Washington Post. Mr. Hull has tried more than one thousand jury, non-jury and administrative matters and is Board Certified in Personal Injury and Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. His trial experience includes mass tort work in asbestos, breast implant, tobacco, Norplant and Fen-phen litigation, numerous product liability matters, defense of pharmaceutical companies, health insurance carriers, medical negligence, construction disputes, employment issues and numerous administrative matters. Mr. Hull has also drafted legislation, and works on litigation matters that have sensitive political aspects. Further, Mr. Hull has substantial experience managing extremely complex litigation.

Mr. Hull is a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel, the Texas Association of Defense Counsel, the Defense Research Institute, the American Bar Association, the Travis County Bar Association, and the State Bar of Texas and is a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation.

Since graduating from law school, Mr. Hull has served as Co-Chair of the Texas Young Lawyers Voter’s Rights and Registration Committee and as Secretary and Vice-Chair of the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse by appointment from Governor Ann Richards. Mr. Hull has also served as President of the Universal Park Committee, as Chair of the Business Advisory Council of United Cerebral Palsy and received the 1991 John Ben Shepperd Alumni Achievement Award, and as Board Member of the Central Texas Mental Health Board.

Mr. Hull was born in Colorado City, Texas, graduated from Hereford, Texas High School in 1976 and received a B.S. Degree in 1979 from Wayland Baptist University. Mr. Hull played basketball for the Pioneers, and graduated from Texas Tech Law School in 1981. He is married to Mignon McGarry, a legislative Consultant. They have one daughter, Michelle, who was born in January 1997.

Susan Henricks has practiced Texas civil litigation and administrative law since 1981. She is a funding partner of HULL HENRICKS LLP, after practicing as a partner in Locke Purnell Rain Harrell and Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP. Ms. Henricks joined the Locke firm in 1998 with Michael S. Hull and other former partners of Maroney, Crowley, Bankston, Richardson & Hull, LLP where she practiced as partner and an associate (1993-1998). Previously, she formed her own firm in Austin, Texas in 1985 and was a partner in the firm of Martin & Henricks from 1986 to 1992. From 1983 to 1985 she served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas where she practiced administrative and trial law, representing Texas state agencies in statewide trial and appellate courts.

Before operation of the State Office of Administrative Hearings, Ms. Henricks conducted approximately 100 hearings as an appointed Administrative Law Judge for numerous state agencies, including the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners, the Texas Employees Retirement System and the Texas Racing Commission among others. She was retained as outside hearing counsel for the Texas Board of Vocational Nurse Examiners from 1986 to 1992.

Ms. Henricks is a member of the State Bar of Texas (1981), the Travis County and American Bar Associations, Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel and the Texas Bar Foundation. She is former Chair of the Travis County Administrative Law Section, serves on the State Bar Administrative and Public Law Council.  She is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas (1984) and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (1990). In the Austin community, Ms. Henricks has served as a member of the Austin YMCA Board of Directors since 1987. She received the YMCA Will Miller Volunteer Leadership Award in 1993 and has also served as Board Member and volunteer for the American Institute for Learning, a nationally recognized literacy and alternative education program. Before attending law school she served as a staff member in the Texas State Senate for two legislative sessions.

Ms. Henricks is a graduate of MacArthur High School, Irving, Texas and received a Bachelor of Journalism with Honors and J.D. (1981) from the University of Texas at Austin. She was a student member of Phi Delta Phi. Ms. Henricks has made her home in Austin, Texas since 1973.

Bryce Benjet concentrates his practice in appellate, administrative, and general civil and commercial litigation. He also has a background in criminal appellate practice. Before joining Hull Henricks LLP, Mr. Benjet served as staff attorney to Justice Bea Ann Smith of the Third Court of Appeals from 2003-2006 and as a Staff Attorney for the Texas Defender Service from 1999-2003. He began his legal career as the Judy Clarke Fellow at the Center for Capital Litigation in Columbia, South Carolina.

Mr. Benjet was born in Willingboro, New Jersey and graduated from Highland Park High School in Highland Park, Illinois. He received a B.A. in history from Brandeis University in 1995 and his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1998. Mr. Benjet was admitted to the Texas State Bar in 1998 and is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Eastern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas.

Lee Parsley is board certified in civil appellate law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He focuses his practice on civil appellate law and on legislative representation (principally in the area of civil justice reform). He also has substantial experience representing clients in all kinds of civil litigation and in divorce cases.

Parsley is a member of the prestigious, nine-member Texas Board of Law Examiners, having been appointed to that position in 2007 by the Supreme Court of Texas. Among other things, the Board of Law Examiners writes the examination lawyers must take to be licensed to practice law in Texas.

Parsley also serves as President and General Counsel of the Texas Civil Justice League, having assumed that role in May 2010. Before joining the Texas Civil Justice League, Parsley was a leading legal reform advocate in Texas, having testified many times before House and Senate committees and having participated in drafting and analyzing some of the most important legal reform bills passed by the Texas Legislature in the past decade.

From 2000-2004, Mr. Parsley was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas School of Law, where he taught a seminar on Texas appellate practice. Additionally, as a co-author of eleven chapters of the Texas Litigation Guide, Texas's most renowned legal treatise covering all aspects of Texas civil law, Parsley literally "wrote the book" on Texas appellate practice. In addition to co-authoring Chapters 147-154 of the Texas Litigation Guide on appellate practice, Parsley also co-authored Chapters 90 to 92 on pretrial discovery.

Parsley has a long history of involvement with the Texas Supreme Court. As the first Rules Staff Attorney for the Texas Supreme Court (1993–1997), he contributed to rewriting the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure in 1997, merging the Texas Rules of Civil and Criminal Evidence in 1998, and revising Texas’s pretrial discovery rules in 1999. He also published a weekly index to the activities of the Texas Supreme Court from 1990 to 1999.

Mr. Parsley obtained an undergraduate degree and an MBA from Texas Tech University, and graduated magna cum laude from Texas Tech University School of Law in 1989.

Parsley is a fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, a member of the State Bar of Texas Litigation and Appellate Sections, and serves on the Texas Tech University School of Law Foundation Board of Directors.

A native Texan, Parsley is married to Julie Caruthers Parsley, a highly skilled appellate and energy lawyer. Julie is a former Commissioner on the Public Utility Commission of Texas (appointed twice by Governor Rick Perry) and former0 Solicitor General of Texas, where she handled the State’s most difficult appellate matters. Julie and Lee Parsley have two children, Catherine and William.