Clay Jenkins

Clay Jenkins is an Ellis County personal injury attorney in Waxahachie, Texas, whose work centers on accident and workplace injury claims. He represents individuals affected by vehicle collisions, industrial incidents, and other events involving alleged negligence. His practice covers car, truck, and motorcycle accidents, brain injuries, wrongful death, premises liability, product liability, and other personal injury matters. Clay began in general trial practice before turning his attention primarily to injury and industrial accident cases.

Clay graduated from Waxahachie High School in 1982 and received his law degree from Baylor University in 1987. From 1988 to 1989, he served as briefing attorney to Texas Supreme Court Associate Justice Oscar H. Mauzy. This early experience exposed him to appellate legal analysis and the work of a state high court. In 1989, he returned to Ellis County to work with his father, Warwick H. Jenkins, who had established the family legal practice in 1948.

Clay has handled a broad range of trial matters during his career. His more recent practice focuses on accident injuries and workplace or industrial incidents, including cases involving serious bodily harm. His listed services include claims arising from explosions, unsafe premises, dangerous products, dog bites, and transportation accidents. This variety of case types requires attention to physical evidence, medical consequences, liability questions, and the effects of injuries on families. His prior general litigation experience provides further context for that work.

Clay Jenkins has held leadership roles in trial-lawyer organizations, including serving as chairman of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association Board of Advocates in 1994. In 2004, he was identified as the most successful plaintiff’s attorney in an Ellis County Bar poll reported by Texas Lawyer. His professional memberships include the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, and the Brain Injury Association of Texas. His experience combines appellate exposure, civil trial work, and longstanding representation of injured Texans.

Law Office Affiliations

• Founder, Clay Jenkins & Associates
• Member, State Bar of Texas
• Member, Ellis County Bar Association
• Member, The College of The State Bar of Texas
• Member, The Pro Bono College of The State Bar of Texas
• Member, The Dallas Trial Lawyers Association
• Member, The Texas Trial Lawyers Association
• Member, The Association of Trial Lawyers of America
• Member, The United States Supreme Court Historical Society
• Member, The Texas Supreme Court Historical Society
• Member, Brain Injury Association of Texas

Licensed State

• Texas

Education

• Baylor University
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Baylor University
  Bachelor of Science (BS)

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