In Episode 75, Northwestern Law alumna Yvette Diaz, a personal injury attorney at Freese & Goss, PLLC in Dallas, Texas, shares her inspiring journey from legal assistant to trial attorney, and highlights the challenges and triumphs that shaped her path. Yvette emphasizes the importance of community in law school, shares her passion for trial preparation, and explains why she has dedicated her career to personal injury and mass tort law. Yvette also discusses how she has developed her lawyer persona and the significance of small wins in her legal practice.
Yvette Diaz is an attorney at Freese & Goss, PLLC in Dallas, Texas, where she focused her practice on personal injury and mass tort law. As a plaintiff’s attorney, Yvette represents individuals injured in car accidents, 18-wheeler collisions, motorcycle collisions, pedestrian collisions, slip and falls, general negligence, work injuries, and dog bite cases. Yvette is a trial attorney. She tries cases in both state and federal courts and has secured significant verdicts for injured plaintiffs against some of the largest corporations. Yvette has been named a National Trial Lawyers Top 40 under 40 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyer and a Super Lawyers Texas Rising Star.
Yvette is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.
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