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Ms. Shanley’s practice primarily involves Administrative Law and Workers’ Compensation Insurance Defense, including representation of insurance carriers before administrative tribunals and consulting on compliance and regulatory requirements. She represents insurance carriers, certified self-insureds, third party administrators, and employers in matters involving indemnity benefits and medical benefits liability within the Texas workers’ compensation system.

• Insurance defense, including regulation and compliance, workers’ compensation defense, and claims consulting
• Subrogation
• General Civil Litigation

• Texas Tech University (B.A. Political Science, magna cum laude, 1998)
• University of Texas at Austin (J.D. 2001, Texas International Law Journal, Legal Research Board)
• University College London (International Law Intensive, Fall 2000)

• Counsel to workers’ compensation insurers, employers, and certified self-insureds in all aspects of claim dispute resolution, consulting, and subrogation.
• Advisor in all matters involving Texas workers’ compensation regulatory compliance.
• Past experience includes serving as defense counsel for insurance carriers and certified self-insureds in hundreds of proceedings before the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation, and the State Office of Administrative Hearings.

• Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
• Member, State Bar of Texas (Administrative and Public Law, International Law, Labor and Employment Law, and Workers’ Compensation Sections)
• Austin Bar Association
• Austin Young Lawyers Association
• American Bar Association
• Significant Case: Skilled Craftsmen of Texas, Inc. v. Texas Workers’ Compensation Comm’n, 158 S.W.3d 89 (Tex. App.—Austin 2005, pet. dism’d).

• Presenter: Supplemental Income Benefits: Taking it Quarter by Quarter, Austin Claims Spring Seminar produced by Austin Claims Association, March 27, 2024.
• Presenter, “DDs and RMEs: Similarities, Differences, and Pitfalls,” Austin Claims Association, March 1, 2023.
• Moderator and Panelist, Pandemonium in the Time of the Pandemic, regional webinar produced by the National Workers’ Compensation Defense Network in partnership with the WorkersCompensation.com Center for Education Excellence, July 21, 2020.
• Author: “Third Court of Appeals Declares TWCC’s ‘Hazardous Employer’ Program Preempted by Federal OSH Act,” Insurance Council of Texas, June 30, 2005.
• Author: “New Dispute Process for Reimbursement of Healthcare Insurers,” Insurance Council of Texas, November 21, 2007.

• Member, Women’s Symphony League of Austin, 2023-present.
• Volunteer, Girls Empowerment Network of Austin, 2020-present.
• Fundraiser and participant, Swim Across America, benefiting the Innovative Clinical Trials Center at Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center, 2015.
• Fundraiser and two-time participant, Bike MS: Texas MS 150, benefiting the National MS Society, 2005 and 2006.

Texas, 2001-present

• Fellow,Texas Bar Foundation
• Awarded AV Preeminent rating by Martindale-Hubbell

Mr. Price practices civil and commercial litigation, handling a range of cases from complex commercial and reinsurance disputes to insurance defense, workers’ compensation, regulation, and subrogation matters. He has represented clients in state and federal courts and administrative agencies throughout the country as both lead counsel and as a member of litigation teams. Particular areas of interest and experience include workers’ compensation, insurance insolvency law, state guaranty associations and guaranty funds, and fiduciary litigation. Mr. Price is a native of Austin, Texas where he and his wife, Anna, work together to serve their community.

• Commercial litigation
• Workers’ compensation defense, subrogation, and claims consulting
• Insurance insolvency, receivership, and guaranty association litigation and consulting
• Fiduciary litigation
• Appellate

• Texas A&M University (B.S., Political Science, 2000)
• Notre Dame Law School (J.D., 2003; Executive Editor, Journal of College and University Law)

• Counsel to workers’ compensation insurers in all aspects of claim dispute resolution, consulting, and subrogation, including in proceedings before the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation, State Office of Administrative Hearings, and all state and federal courts.
• Counsel to insurers, employers, and professional employer organizations regarding workers’ compensation coverage disputes including addressing nature and extent of waivers of subrogation endorsements and indemnification provisions.
• Counsel to state property and casualty insurance guaranty associations in insurance insolvency and receivership matters, including coverage disputes, collection of deductibles under workers’ compensation policies, and causes of action arising under state guaranty fund statutes.
• Commercial litigation practice includes representation of corporations, officers, and directors in cases involving breach of fiduciary duty, unfair competition, misappropriation/theft of trade secrets, Texas Citizens Participation Act (TCPA)/Anti-SLAPP, breach of contract, theft of services, breach of confidentiality agreements, and institutional fraud.
• Special litigation counsel to bankruptcy trustee in successful prosecution and settlement of fraudulent transfer litigation under the Uniform Fraudulent Transfers Act, to recover on behalf of the trustee principal assets of the debtor transferred to related entities and concealed from disclosure to the bankruptcy court.
• Past experience includes serving on litigation team representing insurance receiver in asset recovery litigation prosecuted through federal multi-district litigation (MDL) with causes of action including RICO, breach of fiduciary duty, mail fraud, wire fraud, professional malpractice, among others.

• Panelist, “Establishing a ‘New Normal’ During COVID-19,” National Webinar of the Center for Education Excellence, Workerscompensation.com and National Workers’ Compensation Defense Network, June 1, 2020.
• Co-Presenter, “Attorney vs. Attorney Issues in Workers’ Compensation,” 16th; Annual Advanced Workers’ Compensation Law Conference, State Bar of Texas August 22, 2019.
• Contributor, Challenges for First Responders – Workers’ Compensation Emerging Issues Analysis (Robinson & NWCDN 2019 Ed.).
• Panelist, “Workers’ Compensation Fraud – A National Perspective,” American Society of Workers’ Compensation Professionals Annual Conference, March 15, 2018.
• Panelist, “Southeastern Subrogation and Multi-Jurisdictional Issues Facing the Region, 2018 NWCDN Southeastern Regional Conference – New Orleans, National Workers’ Compensation Defense Network, July 19, 2018.
• Contributor, The Quiet Before the Storm – Workers’ Compensation Emerging Issues Analysis (Robinson & NWCDN 2018 Ed.).
• Panelist, “Issues for Receivers and Guaranty Associations in Collection of Large Deductible Obligations,” National Conference of Insurance Guaranty Funds 2017 Legal Seminar, June 22, 2017.
• Author, Chasing Large Deductibles for Guaranty Associations, presented to the National Conference of Insurance Guaranty Funds at the 2017 Legal Seminar, June 22-23, 2017.
• Contributor, The Year of Constitutional Challenges – Workers’ Compensation Emerging Issues Analysis (Robinson & NWCDN 2017 Ed.).

• In re Accident Fund General Insurance Company, 543 S.W.3d 750 (Tex. 2017).
• Cal. Ins. Guar. Assoc., et al. v. Hill Bros. Transp. Co., 497 S.W.3d 67 (Tex. App.—Austin 2016).
• Reitman v. Yandell, No. 02-17-00245, 2018 WL 1324775 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth 2018).

• Austin Bar Association
• Austin Young Lawyers Association
• Texas Young Lawyers Association
• State Bar of Texas
• The Florida Bar
• Virginia State Bar
• American Bar Association
• American Society of Workers’ Compensation Professionals
• Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation

• Board of Directors, Aggie Bar Association (President, 2013-2014)
• Board of Directors, Young Men’s Business League of Austin/Austin Sunshine Camps (President, 2015)
• Board of Directors, Austin Symphony BATS (President, 2012-2014)
• Charter Member, Austin Young Chamber of Commerce
• Capital of Texas A&M Club
• Notre Dame Club of Austin
• Austin Core Team, Young Risk Professionals of Texas (Director of Outreach and Education, 2014-2016)
• Board of Directors, Austin Symphony Orchestra (2020-Present)
• Planning Committee, No Worries Classic Charity Skeet Shoot benefiting Wonders and Worries (2019-Present)

Texas, 2003-present
Virginia, 2006-present
Florida, 2007-present

• All Texas, Virginia, and Florida State Courts
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Ms. Chapman practices administrative, civil, and commercial litigation and appeals, focusing on Workers’ Compensation Insurance Defense. She primarily represents insurance carriers, self-insureds, third party administrators, and employers.

• Austin College (B.A. Public Health and Political Science, 2018)
• Willamette University College of Law (J.D., 2021) 

• Author, “Poor Mental State: Insufficiencies in Mental Healthcare in the United States,” ABA Health eSource (November 2021).

• State Bar of Texas

• Texas 2022-present

Mr. Garza practices administrative, civil, and commercial litigation and appeals, focusing on Workers’ Compensation Insurance Defense. Prior to joining Shanley Price, Mr. Garza attended Texas A&M University School of Law. He lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and strives to serve his community to the best of his ability.

• Georgetown University (B.A. Economics, 2017)
• Texas A&M School of Law (J.D., 2023, Concentration in intellectual Property)

• State Bar of Texas (2023)
• Tarrant County Bar Association (2023)

Texas, 2023-Present