The husband and wife team of Randall Sorrels (the Immediate past president of the State Bar of Texas) and Alex Farias-Sorrels (a trustee on the Texas Bar Foundation) announced their new team of lawyers and new office location for Sorrels Law. Randall Sorrels left his previous firm (Abraham Watkins) after 30 years, including 25 as managing partner. “I was given a unique opportunity to join another firm as a result of my role as President of the State Bar. Then fate, as well as a couple of former Major League Baseball players stepped in, and we opened our own law firm. And the result could not have turned out better,” said Sorrels, in a statement.

A nurse/lawyer, a pharmacist/lawyer, an engineer/lawyer, a bilingual lawyer and a lawyer who specializes in 18-wheeler and auto wreck cases round out the team. Alex Farias-Sorrels earned her J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law. She is a former briefing clerk at the Supreme Court of Texas and worked at the international firm of Morgan Lewis before becoming a plaintiffs’ lawyer. Randall O. Sorrels received his Juris Doctor degree from South Texas College of Law Houston. He began his career at Fulbright & Jaworski before becoming a plaintiff’s lawyer. Farias-Sorrels commented, “Once we decided to start our own law firm, we made a conscious effort to find a group of highly diverse, multi-talented lawyers to become teammates with. The diversity people see in our firm should signal we are a law firm for all of the people—not just a select few.”