Ethan Shaw
Two board certifications, five federal courts including the Ninth Circuit, and an Intellectual Property practice area — and no rideshare page at all. "Uber/Lyft Accidents" is one line on his practice-areas index. We list him for what the register shows, and say plainly what the website does not.
The bar record
We read Ethan Shaw in the State Bar of Texas Find a Lawyer directory — the same register behind every Houston, Dallas and Austin listing on this site. The practice, school, fee and language rows are supplied by the lawyer; the Bar publishes them without verifying them, and prints in words where a lawyer has supplied nothing.
Texas answers, and asks more than anyone else. The State Bar prints No Public Disciplinary History as a sentence — not a blank like Washington, not a missing field like Pennsylvania. And it asks about eight things no other register on this site asks about at once: practice areas, law school, fee options, languages, other states, courts of admittance, firm size and services provided. Where a lawyer declines, it prints the refusal in words — None Reported By Attorney — so you can tell a question nobody asked from one nobody answered. One record in this city says that five times.
These nine were held once, and the hold is why this listing exists in the form it does. Nine Austin lawyers — this one among them — first reached us with an entry from austinbar.org, the Austin Bar Association’s find-a-lawyer: a voluntary membership directory with no disciplinary field of any kind. We did not publish them. The State Bar of Texas records have since been supplied, and the comparison settled the question: all nine read No Public Disciplinary History — the field the directory does not have — and on top of that, three of the nine licence dates in the directory were wrong and four addresses disagreed, with the regulator matching the lawyer’s own website on three of them. The wait produced a better record, not merely a slower one.
What the record shows
He is Board Certified in both Civil Trial Law and Personal Injury Trial Law. Two certifications is rare — only he and Robert Alden hold both, out of two hundred and twenty-eight listings.Verified
His courts of admittance run to five: the Fifth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals and the Texas Eastern, Southern/Bankruptcy and Western District Courts. The Ninth Circuit is the only appearance of a west-coast federal appellate court on any Texas listing here.Verified
His practice areas include Intellectual Property alongside personal injury — an unusual pairing, and one his biography supports by describing patent infringement engagements.Verified
The firm’s website has no rideshare page. We fetched the homepage and the practice-areas index on 27 August 2026: the homepage contains no instance of rideshare, Uber or Lyft, and the practice-areas index carries Uber/Lyft Accidents once, as a list item with no page behind it that we could reach. His listing says so rather than implying a rideshare practice we cannot see.Verified
The address we were first given was another firm’s building. The Austin Bar Association directory placed him at 1609 Shoal Creek — which is Hayden Briggle’s address. The State Bar of Texas gives 1301 W 25th Street, Suite 406, and the firm’s own website agrees with the State Bar.Verified
The register lists his law school twice — Texas Tech University as a bare row and again with the J.D. and a May 1990 date. A duplicate row in the regulator’s own record.Verified
What the firm says
His biography describes representative engagements including commercial, patent and catastrophic injury matters. We print no recovery figures.Reported
He says the firm takes cases across Texas and beyond, which the five federal admissions are consistent with.Reported
Rideshare
What we haven’t checked
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