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The Stewart Law Firm: Chairman of MADD-Texas’s Advisory Board, Now Fighting Injury Cases

Stephen Stewart didn’t just start representing injury victims after founding his firm in 1997 — he took on a sustained volunteer leadership role with Mothers Against Drunk Driving, eventually chairing MADD-Texas’s advisory board. This Austin personal injury attorney has spent nearly three decades representing catastrophic injury victims while maintaining that parallel public-safety advocacy commitment.

At a Glance: Austin Personal Injury Attorney Firm Overview

Origin & Background

Stephen W. Stewart earned his B.B.A. in finance from Texas Tech University before earning his J.D. with honors from Texas Tech University School of Law in 1997, the same year he founded his firm in Austin. Notably, Stewart’s early career experience included commercial truck crash litigation and insurance defense and product liability defense work — meaning he has direct experience seeing how defense counsel and insurers approach these same case types, before moving his practice to represent plaintiffs. He is licensed in Texas and New Mexico and admitted before the U.S. District Courts for the Western, Eastern, Southern, and Northern Districts of Texas.

Practice Concentration

The firm handles catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, defective products, commercial trucking crashes, catastrophic workplace injuries, and child sexual abuse cases — a notably broader and more specialized case mix than a typical general auto-accident practice, particularly the trucking litigation and product liability defense background Stewart brings from his early career. The firm serves clients in Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston.

Notable Work

The firm does not publish a structured, itemized settlements-and-verdicts table with individual case figures on its current site. Past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future case, and this gap in published results is disclosed directly rather than papered over.

Client Voice

Client reviews consistently describe sustained, personal attention through long cases: one client who hired Stewart for two separate personal injury lawsuits wrote, “I can’t say enough about him. Intelligent, hard working, trustworthy, caring, ethical, knowledgeable… the best of the best. And that includes his entire staff.” Another, describing a case after being struck by an 18-wheeler that changed lanes into their vehicle, wrote that Stewart “personally touched base with me often, keeping me updated at all times” through “a lengthy lawsuit.” A third, involved in a wrongful death and property-loss case affecting several hundred other people, described Stewart as “kind, compassionate and helpful.” No negative reviews of substance were located during this research.

Beyond the Courtroom

Stewart serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board for MADD-Texas (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), a sustained leadership commitment rather than a one-time sponsorship, and earned MADD’s Star Volunteer Award for his work as a member of the organization’s Law Enforcement Appreciation Team. He also received the Medal of Honor during National Crime Victims’ Rights Week and serves as a Board Member of the 100 Club of Central Texas, an organization supporting the families of first responders killed or catastrophically injured in the line of duty. He and his family are also involved with the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Recognition

No Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification for Stewart was confirmed in available public materials, and this profile does not use “specialist” language as a result. Stewart has been named to Texas Super Lawyers. This is a peer-review recognition rather than state board certification, and this profile does not conflate the two.

Texas Legal Backdrop

Texas personal injury claims are generally subject to a two-year statute of limitations under Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 16.003, running from the date of injury or, for wrongful death, from the date of death. Texas follows a modified comparative-fault “51% bar” rule under Civil Practice and Remedies Code Chapter 33: a claimant found more than 50% responsible for their own injury recovers nothing, while a claimant at 50% or below has recovery reduced by their share of fault. Commercial trucking cases specifically often involve federal regulations under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in addition to Texas state law, which can affect both liability theories and evidence preservation timelines. This is general background information, not legal advice, and does not account for the specific facts of any case.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

A founder with direct insurance-defense and product-liability-defense experience early in his career, now applying that insight on the plaintiff’s side for nearly 30 years, is a genuine and verifiable form of insight into how the opposing side builds a case. Stewart’s sustained MADD-Texas advisory board chairmanship — not a logo on a website, but an active leadership role with award recognition — reinforces a documented, long-term public safety commitment that goes beyond his individual client work.

The honest gap: Stewart does not hold Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification, a credential several other firms in this directory’s Austin PI coverage carry, and the firm doesn’t publish a detailed, itemized settlements table the way some peer firms do, making it harder for a prospective client to independently benchmark specific case outcomes. That’s worth asking about directly in a consultation rather than assuming the firm’s multi-city reach and specialized case mix substitute for documented results.

Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was compiled from the firm’s own website (thestewartlawfirm.net), including its about-us, results, and testimonials pages, Super Lawyers’ attorney profile for Stephen Stewart, the Better Business Bureau’s business profile, Lawyers.com’s Martindale-Avvo-sourced client reviews, and Lawful.com’s independent firm directory listing.

Publisher Disclosure & Independence Notice

Awesome Attorneys is an independently researched legal directory. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed by The Stewart Law Firm prior to publication. Awesome Attorneys may in the future offer sponsored placement products to firms profiled on this site, but sponsorship status has no bearing on editorial content, and inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement of any firm for any particular legal matter. Nothing in this profile constitutes legal advice or a lawyer referral; readers with a legal question should consult a licensed Texas attorney directly.