Atty. Joe Roden

• Joe Roden grew up in Liberty, Texas and attended the University of Texas as an undergraduate, where he graduated in 1988
• He then went into the U.S
• Marine Corps
• Joe attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant and was a decorated officer in the Marine Corps during Desert Storm, the first Gulf War
• After leaving the Marine Corps, he graduated from the University of Houston Law Center with honors and then clerked for Justice Murry Cohen on the First Court of Appeals
• After clerking for the Court of Appeals, he joined McGinnis, Lochridge and Kilgore, where he did primarily appellate work, an area of concentration he has continued while at Rusty Hardin & Associates
• Joe is considered an excellent appellate attorney by his peers and continues to consider that his primary vocation
• He is the immediate past chair of the Houston Bar Association appellate practice section
• He proudly refers to himself as an “appellate geek.” In reality, however, he is far more than a one-note artist
• He has increasingly taken the lead in developing and managing complex personal injury and business litigation cases that started out with forlorn potential
• Through his sheer determination and legal imagination, he has achieved incredibly favorable settlements in several of these thorny cases during the last few years
• He has done a remarkable job conducting the discovery for these cases and preparing them for trial
• Joe has also been a wonderful asset and resource in assisting the other attorneys in the office with instant high-quality legal research and writing on short notice for a wide variety of cases
• Joe concentrates exclusively on civil cases

Practice Areas

Appellate, Cases Involving Public Figures, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Claims