​D'Juana Parks is a personal injury attorney who is certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. She practices personal injury, Federal Employers Liability and Toxic Tort Law. She is licensed to practice in Texas and has been named to the Texas Super Lawyers List by Thomson Reuters every year since 2009.

​Equity partner, David P. Wilson has been with Provost Umphrey Law Firm as an attorney since 1991. He is certified in personal injury trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and is licensed to practice law in Texas, Louisiana and Ohio. Wilson commonly represents injured offshore oil workers, seaman, and railroad workers. Wilson has a unique background in that he served eight years in the United States Air Force and worked in television news before going to law school.

James E. Payne is an equity partner at Provost Umphrey Law Firm LLP and a member of the management committee in Beaumont, Texas. Payne was certified in personal injury trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in 1999. The National Board of Trial Advocacy certified him in 2001 as a Certified Civil Trial Advocate and in 2012 as a Pretrial Practice Advocate.

The publishers of Super Lawyers have selected two attorneys from Beaumont, Texas-based Provost Umphrey Law Firm to the 2017 Texas Rising Stars list for their work with personal injury clients. No strangers to the prestigious list, Ronnie Turner Jr. and Colin David Moore have been included a combined 14 years.

​Provost Umphrey attorney Matthew Matheny says the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to let stand a lower court ruling in the case involving the National Football League and former players who’ve suffered brain injuries from playing the game is the right thing to do.

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