Meet the Attorneys

Eddie G. Shell

Born in Bertram, Texas

Graduated From Lampasas High School in 1969

Has Tried Over 200 Criminal and Civil Jury Trials

Licensed to Practice

• Admitted to the Texas Bar in 1981
  
• U.S. District Court, Southern and Western Districts of Texas

Education

• University of Texas, Bachelor's Degree, 1974
  
• Antioch School of Law, Juris Doctorate, 1980

Experience and Accolades

• Public Defender, Burnet County, Texas, 1988 - 90
  
• Elected County Attorney, Burnet County, Texas, 1990 - 92
  
• Voted: Best Attorney – 2009, 2012, 2013 
  
• Voted: Best Law Firm – 2014, 2015 and 2019

Memberships

• Highland Lakes Bar Association, President, 1990
  
• State Bar of Texas
  
• Highland Lakes Criminal Defense Association, Vice-President, 2006 - 07
  
• Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association

Austin C. Shell

Born in Austin, Texas

Graduated With Honors From Marble Falls High School, 2002

Licensed to Practice
 

• Admitted to the Texas Bar in 2011

Education

• Texas A&M University, Bachelor's Degree, Biomedical Science, 2006
  
• Elected President of Law School Class, 2009 - 10
  
• Texas Southern University, Juris Doctorate, 2011
  
• Certification in Governmental Law

Accolades

• Helen Dawn Williams Mock Trial Competition, 2009
  
•  Executive Board, Student Bar Association, 2009 - 10
  
•  Executive Board, James M. Douglas Board of Advocates, 2009 - 11
  
•  Senator Rodney Ellis Texas Legislative Internship Program
  
•  The Task Force on Indigent Defense & Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions, 2010
  
•  National Mock Trial Competition Texas Young Lawyers Association, 2010 - 11
  
•  Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award for Trial Simulation, 2010 - 11
  
•  Judge for National Mock Trial Competition Texas Young Lawyers Association, 2014
  
• Voted: Best Law Firm – 2014, 2015 and 2019
• Voted: Best Attorney - 2020

Experience

• Galow & Smith, PC, 2010 - 11
  
• Shell & Shell, 2012 - Present

Memberships

• Highland Lakes Bar Association
  
• State Bar of Texas
  
• Texas Trial Lawyers Association
  
• Capital Area Trial Lawyers Association
  

Watch Austin Shell on the A&E series, “The Accused: Guilty or Innocent?” where he defends the innocence of a man on trial for his life and accused of Manslaughter in Llano County, Texas.

Michael Williams

From Goldthwaite, Texas

Graduated With Honors From Goldthwaite High School in 2008

Licensed to Practice

• Admitted to the Texas Bar in 2017

Education

• Texas Tech University, Bachelor's Degree, Finance, Magna Cum Laude, 2012
• Texas Tech University School of Law, Juris Doctorate, 2016

Experience

• Field Manning Stone Hawthorne & Aycock, Law Clerk, 2013
• McWhorter Cobb and Johnson, Law Clerk, 2014
• Texas Tech Law Ambassadors

Memberships

• State Bar of Texas
  

Ross Lavin