- Criminal DefenseNick Pucillo graduated cum laude from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and a Certificate in Business. During his time at UT, Nick was involved in numerous student organizations and spent a summer studying abroad in Barcelona, Spain. After graduation, Nick spent a year working for a criminal defense attorney, which is when he decided to pursue a career in the legal profession. Nick moved back home to Houston, Texas to attend law school and graduated from the University of Houston Law Center in the top twenty five percent of his class. While attending law school, Nick clerked for a federal judge at the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, an appellate judge at the Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas, a commercial litigation firm, and a bankruptcy firm. Nick’s practice with Ramey, Chandler, Quinn & Zito, PC primarily focuses on personal injury and first- and third-party insurance defense.
- Wrongful Death
- Sex CrimesOur attorneys defend landlords, tenants and property owners from tort claims including rape, drowning, murder, criminal assaults, slip and falls, and construction defects, including foundation defects and mold litigation. Premises liability is a rapidly evolving area of the law and our firm stays abreast of these developments. In fact, we have established important law in this field. Our goal is the most cost-effective use of resources and law to defend clients.
- Assault
- Murder
- Juvenile CrimesThroughout Lee’s time in law school, he gained significant litigation experience by working with several pro bono organizations, including externing with the Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center. He additionally served as a Student Attorney in the Tulane Juvenile Law Clinic, where he represented children facing criminal charges in New Orleans. Lee was also extensively involved in the Sports Law Society. He was a Senior Managing Editor of the Sports Lawyers Journal and on the Executive Board for the Tulane Professional Basketball Negotiation Competition, the largest national competition of its kind. Lee’s practice with Ramey Chandler Quinn, P.C. primarily focuses on first and third-party insurance defense and personal injury matters.
- Business DisputesWade Quin and Nick Zito routinely handle aviation matters for the firm’s clients. In addition to handling tort claims, his work in their area also involves aviation related business disputes and large claims involving hull damage. They have successfully represented airlines in these matters including more complex cases involving the application of the Montreal Convention and federal preemption issues.
- Construction Contracts
- Trade Secrets
- Intellectual Property
- Employment LitigationWe have talented, experienced litigators who represent all types of employers in labor and employment matters. We handle every phase of employment litigation and have the knowledge and expertise to determine when a case should be resolved and when it needs to be tried. We handle Title VII, Texas Labor Code, FMLA, ADEA, ADA cases in Federal and State Courts as well as arbitration.
- Real Estate LitigationWade is a trial lawyer with over 30 years of courtroom experience. He handles a wide variety of civil litigation including professional liability, transportation and railroad litigation, products liability, premises-liability and personal-injury matters, construction litigation, real estate litigation, insurance disputes, and commercial litigation. His trial experience includes wide-ranging disputes from medical negligence to officers and directors liability, products liability to railroad accidents, premises liability to construction defect matters, and bank fraud to bad-faith liability, to name a few. He has been elected by his peers to Associate Membership in the American Board of Trial Advocates. He has written and lectured for various continuing legal education programs in the State of Texas, as well as for the insurance, transportation, construction, commercial property, medical, legal and professional industries.
- Premises LiabilityThe hub of our practice is in Houston but we have cases pending in every quadrant of the state. Our firm’s brand is that of trial lawyers focusing primarily in insurance defense with an emphasis on transportation litigation, products liability, premises liability, professional liability, commercial litigation, first party bad faith litigation, as well as intricate insurance coverage opinions and appeals. The last twenty years have slipped by quickly, but during those years we have been privileged to serve citizens in Houston, neighboring counties and others across the State of Texas and look forward to doing so long into the future.
- Construction LitigationThe firm has a long history of successfully representing clients in a wide array of both residential and commercial construction matters. Our attorneys regularly litigate, mediate and arbitrate claims relating to cost issues, construction defects, design errors and contract disputes. We represent owners, developers, general contractors, subcontractors, engineers and design professionals and, in each case, leverage our experience to provide aggressive representation focused on an efficient and cost-effective resolution.
- Property DamageRamey, Chandler, Quinn & Zito, PC is a respected leader in insurance-related litigation, including disputes involving hurricane and other weather-related catastrophes. Our personal and commercial lines practice focuses on the representation of major insurance carriers as well as independent adjusting firms, adjusters, and insurance agents throughout the state of Texas. The attorneys at Ramey, Chandler, Quinn & Zito, PC possess the depth of experience to effectively represent and counsel their clients in a wide variety of matters ranging from residential property and automobile claims to complex commercial property damage disputes involving specialty and industry specific lines of property insurance. Ramey, Chandler, Quinn & Zito, PC has a proven record of successfully litigating such cases on behalf of their clients in both state and federal court, while also leading the way in the development of innovative strategies for the effective management of high volume litigation through the creation of Multidistrict Litigation Courts following Hurricane Ike and the 2012 Rio Grande Valley hailstorms. Ramey, Chandler, Quinn & Zito, PC strives to understand the needs of its clients and provide an aggressive, yet cost-efficient defense that emphasizes results. Through this approach, our clients can expect that we will promptly and properly assess the risks they face as well as anticipate and aggressively defend claims for damages utilizing a proven strategy developed through years of trial-tested experience.
- Personal InjuryDuring his time in Waco, Travis developed a love for sports and entertainment law that led him to New Orleans to pursue a law degree at Tulane University, which boasts the leading sports law program in the country. There, he became heavily involved in the Tulane Sports Law Society and the Tulane Pro Basketball Negotiation Competition as co-chair of the board, which he helped grow from infancy into the nationally recognized competition it is today. Travis also clerked for a commercial litigation firm and completed an externship with the National Labor Relations Board during his years at Tulane. Travis’s practice with Ramey, Chandler, Quinn & Zito, PC focuses on personal injury and first- and third-party insurance defense.
- Medical MalpracticeBob has defended a variety of high-dollar exposure lawsuits over the past 30 years, from simple automobile cases to wrongful death trucking accidents, products liability, dental malpractice, medical malpractice, toxic torts, commercial disputes, premises liability and sexual assaults and has taken more than 200 jury verdicts.
- Estate PlanningNd year attorney native to Houston. Wyatt graduated from Baylor University with a Bachelor of Arts in Russian, and went on to attend law school at Texas Tech University. Wyatt practiced law in New Mexico for two years after graduating, and gained broad range of experience across many practice areas during that time, including collections, family law, contract law, social security, criminal defense, oil and gas, general civil litigation, estate planning, and personal injury defense. Wyatt returned to his hometown of Houston in 2023 and joined our firm. Wyatt is licensed to practice law in Texas and New Mexico.
- Bankruptcy
- Debt Collection