About Us

Thornton Esquire Law Group, PLLC has evolved over the years to be a thriving personal injury accident and family law firm. The managing attorney, Attorney Rahlita D. Thornton was licensed to practice law almost 30 years ago. During that time clients have been mostly personally referred by friends, past clients, and current clients. The managing attorney, who is a native Houstonian is especially proud of her connections both social and business in the Houston and surrounding areas. Although licensed in Texas the firm negotiates and settles serious accident cases (Motor Vehicle, 18 Wheeler, Company Vehicle Accidents, Catastrophic Accidents, Wrongful Death Actions) Nationwide in any city and places such as Atlanta, Georgia, Greenville, North Carolina, Tera Haute, Indiana, Baton Rouge, LA, Hammond, LA. and is able to handle family law cases (Divorces, Custody, Child Support, Visitation Violations) in Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio. These social, business and professional connections have helped the firm to grow and thrive. The firm is certainly grateful and humbled by those that have helped the firm to grow.

Our clients are loyal. They are especially appreciative that they are able to understand the legal process so much easier than ever after meeting with our firm. The firm and its attorneys, paralegals, and legal assistants like to keep it simple for our clients. Legalese is not what we pride ourselves on at our firm. Explanations of serious and difficult to understand legal issues are often explained where the clients feel a sense of relief. They get it. Then it makes is so easy to weather whatever storm they may have had when they initially contacted the firm. They are immediately put at ease. Clients can tell that the firm is knowledgeable, understanding, experienced, compassionate, and most importantly passionate about helping them achieve their goals. Hard work and perseverance are part of our firm’s culture. Clients get a sense of comfort when interacting with the members of the firm. There’s a down to earth feel by all that come into contact with us. The firm keeps our clients up to date on the status of their cases through secure messaging systems set up to minimize any breaches in confidential information. The firm strives to keep up with technology to make it easy for our clients to achieve their goals and stay up to date with their cases, and for the firm to be as productive as possible in pursuit of our clients’ goals. The firm believes that Where Accident and Family Law Clients become Legal Family”

However, members of the community know that we handle our business and know when it is time to play and when it is time to get serious. We negotiate to the fullest on any legal matter that we encounter. No matter how small or big you think your legal problem is we take it seriously. Managing member attorney, Rahlita D. Thornton often observes out of control opposing counsel behavior then professionally with a sense of empowerment with the knowledge of the law fights and ends up smiling when it is all said and done. That is why sometimes we say “Don’t Let Our Cute Smiles Fool You. We win Legal Fights!”. Call us at (713) 401-3998. Ready to Help!