Lea Buffington Partner Burns Anderson Jury & Brenner Phone: (512) 338-5322 Fax: (512) 338-5363 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Download vCard

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Practicing in the fields of general civil litigation, workers' compensation, and judicial review of workers' compensation cases for over twelve years, Lea has thoroughly learned the process and the law. She knows both how to work out a deal and how to win a case, and she has the success rate to prove it.

Lea is devoted to serving her clients, finding out what they really want, and finding a way to attain it. She stays aggressively involved, and that is what makes the fast-paced, high-volume workers' compensation practice truly satisfying to her.

Lea focuses her practice on workers' compensation defense. She has also practiced before the State Office of Administrative Hearings and has served clients' needs for general civil defense litigation in the areas of professional liability, medical malpractice defense, and non-subscriber employers.

As of January 1, 2006, BAJB is proud to have Lea Buffington named as a junior partner.



Certification:    

Texas Workers' Compensation Law - Texas Board of Legal Specialization

 

Professional Affiliations:

Austin Bar Association
State Bar of Texas
Austin Young Lawyers Association
Texas Young Lawyers Association
Texas Association of Defense Counsel



Publications & Seminars:

Lea has taught seminars and made presentations to insurance adjusters, employers, risk managers and TWCC personnel at Texas Workers' Compensation Insurance Fund, CNA Companies, Gulf Insurance Group, Farmers Insurance Group of Companies, Amerisure Companies, Texas Association of School Boards, ITT Specialty Risk Services, Inc./The Hartford, and Texas Workers' Compensation Commission

Author and Speaker: "Defending and Adjusting Occupational Disease and Repetitive Trauma Injury Claims," 1998.
Author and Speaker: "MMI, Impairment and the 90-Day Rule," 1998.
Author and Speaker: "Sufficiency of Controversion," 1998.
Author and Speaker: "The Benefits Scheme," 1997 and 1998.
Author and Speaker: "Issues Regarding Recoupment and Salary Continuation," 1997 and 1998.
Author and Speaker: "Troubleshooting in Contribution and SIBs Cases," 1997.
Author and Speaker: "Defenses and Exceptions under the Texas Workers' Compensation Act," 1996.
Author and Speaker: "Occupational Diseases Under the Texas Workers' Compensation Act," 1996 and 1997.
"Understanding and Preventing Bad Faith Claims," 1997 and 1998.
"Identifying Exceptions and Defense Under TWCA," 1997 and 1998.
"Controversion of Claims, Calculation and Suspension of Benefits under Texas Workers' Compensation Act," 1996 and 1997.
"Special Issues Regarding Benefits under Texas Workers' Compensation Act," 1995 and 1996.
"Calculation and Suspension of Benefits under the Texas Workers' Compensation Act," 1996.
"Texas Workers' Compensation Commission Dispute Resolution Process," 1993.