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Dara Hegar
Dara Hegar
Dara Hegar, Managing Attorney for the firm’s offices in Houston, Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, and New York, brought her expertise in complex litigation and trial coordination to the Lanier Law Firm in 1999. 
Evan Janush
Evan Janush
Mr. Janush oversees business litigation for The Lanier Law Firm’s New York office and he is the practice group leader of the firm’s employment litigation practice.
W Mark Lanier
W Mark Lanier
W Mark Lanier founded The Lanier Law Firm in 1990. Since then, Mr. Lanier has earned widespread recognition from the legal profession and the media as one of the nation’s top trial lawyers. Mr. Lanier frequently instructs other attorneys on trial techniques and has served as a featured lecturer at many of the nation’s top law schools including Harvard, Stanford, Pepperdine and the University of Chicago. Mr. Lanier’s courtroom work has resulted in feature articles in ‘The Wall Street Journal’, ‘The New York Times’, ‘The American Lawyer’, ‘The National Law Journal’, ‘Los Angeles Times’, ‘The Boston Globe’, ‘Bloomberg News’, ‘New York Lawyer’, ‘Texas Lawyer’, and ‘The Houston Chronicle’, among others. He also is a frequent guest and contributor on network news broadcasts including CNBC, Fox News and Fox Business News. ‘U.S. News and World Report’ has named Mark Lanier in its Best Lawyers in America list for nine consecutive years and most recently as the 2013 Top Class Action Attorney in America. ‘The National Law Journal’ has twice named him one of the nation’s Top 10 Trial Attorneys, and in 2010 named Mr Lanier as one of the most Influential Attorneys of the Decade. In 2017, Mark was inducted into the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame, by National Trial Lawyers, which recognizes outstanding attorneys who leave an indelible mark on the American legal tradition through a lifetime of service to the public, the Constitution, and the trial bar. Although attorneys previously had to be 60 or older, that requirement was waived for the 56-year-old Mr. Lanier. In addition to national recognition, in 2010 ‘Texas Lawyer’ newspaper named him as one of the Top 25 Attorneys of the Past Quarter Century, and the publication named him as one of the Top 5 ‘Go To’ Personal Injury Plaintiff Attorneys in Texas in 2002, 2007 and 2012. He also has been recognized multiple times on the ‘Texas Super Lawyers’ list as one of the state’s Top 10 Attorneys.