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Kirker Davis: A Husband-and-Wife Trial Team That Only Takes Multi-Million-Dollar Divorces

Chris Kirker and Holly Davis are married to each other and run a family law firm together — an unusual professional arrangement in a practice area built entirely around other people’s marriages ending. Before founding their own firm in 2013, the two oversaw a 14-attorney family law litigation practice across three Texas offices at a previous firm; they left that scale specifically to build a narrower, deliberately high-end boutique.

Origin and Background

Holly R. Davis graduated from Baylor University School of Law in 2006; Chris M. Kirker graduated from the same school in 2010. Both previously served as Family Law Partners at another Austin firm, where they oversaw a litigation practice spanning up to 14 attorneys across three Texas offices before founding Kirker Davis in 2013. Chris Kirker has earned the National Trial Lawyers’ Top 100 Trial Lawyer designation every year since 2014. Holly Davis has served as a legal analyst for Entertainment Tonight, Court TV, People Magazine, and Forbes — national media credentials distinct from, but reflective of, her professional standing. Both partners hold Super Lawyers recognition and Avvo “Superb” ratings. The firm has grown from two attorneys in 2013 to a team of 14 across Austin, San Antonio, and McKinney.

Practice Concentration

Kirker Davis handles family law exclusively, with an explicit focus on high-asset divorce: professionals, business owners, and multi-million-dollar estates, including divorces involving multiple business entities and high-profile clients. The firm also offers estate planning, prenuptial agreements, and business valuation services alongside its core divorce and custody practice. This is a narrower client focus than most family law firms in this Family Law & Divorce directory, which the firm states directly: “this unique area of law has a limited amount of competitors and peers who exclusively handle complex family law matters.”

Notable Work / Track Record

As is standard for family law practices, the firm does not publish verdict or settlement figures, since Texas family court outcomes are individualized and case records are frequently restricted from public access. Awesome Attorneys is disclosing that gap rather than substituting marketing language for it. What is independently verifiable is scale and continuity: growth from two founding partners to a 14-attorney, three-office firm since 2013, and continuous individual recognition for both name partners across multiple years.

Client Voice

Kirker Davis holds 44 reviews on Yelp with recurring, specific praise: multiple reviewers name Chris Kirker directly for being “ready to tackle anything that was thrown my way from the opposing side,” and one names attorney Kasey specifically, on a family-friend referral, expressing strong satisfaction. A separate independent review-summary analysis, synthesizing patterns across the firm’s public review base, specifically noted that some clients mentioned premium service levels come with corresponding fee structures typical of specialized family law practices — a straightforward cost disclosure Awesome Attorneys is including directly rather than omitting, consistent with the firm’s own explicit high-end market positioning.

Beyond the Courtroom

Holly Davis’s recurring role as a legal analyst for national media outlets (Entertainment Tonight, Court TV, People, Forbes) means the firm’s expertise is regularly tested in a public commentary context beyond individual case work — a form of visibility distinct from litigation results or peer awards.

Recognition for This Austin Family Law Firm

Peer-reviewed and third-party credentials: both founding partners hold Super Lawyers recognition; Chris Kirker has held the National Trial Lawyers’ Top 100 Trial Lawyer designation continuously since 2014; and both hold Avvo “Superb” ratings, a client-review-driven distinction Awesome Attorneys notes is separate from the peer-nominated Super Lawyers and National Trial Lawyers recognitions. Awesome Attorneys did not identify Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification documented for either named partner and notes that directly, since several other firms in this directory’s Family Law category do hold that specific certification.

Texas Legal Backdrop

High-asset divorces involving multiple business entities — the firm’s stated specialty — intersect closely with Texas’s community property framework (Texas Family Code Chapter 3), which presumes property acquired during marriage is community property subject to “just and right” division under § 7.001, while requiring separate property to be traced by clear and convincing evidence to be excluded from that division. Valuing a closely-held business for divorce purposes typically requires expert testimony, since a business’s book value and its fair market value for division purposes are often meaningfully different figures — which is why the firm’s business valuation service offering pairs directly with its stated divorce specialty. None of this is legal advice; a specific high-asset or business-valuation divorce should be evaluated by a licensed Texas attorney based on the actual assets and business structures involved.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

Kirker Davis’s clearest, most specific differentiator is deliberate scale and focus: a husband-and-wife trial team who left a larger, 14-attorney practice specifically to build a narrower, high-end boutique focused on multi-million-dollar and business-owner divorces, backed by continuous individual peer recognition for both partners since the mid-2010s. The honest trade-off, disclosed directly by independent review analysis and consistent with the firm’s own stated market positioning, is cost: this is an explicitly premium-priced practice, and a prospective client should expect fees that reflect the firm’s stated focus on complex, high-asset matters rather than routine divorces. For a genuinely high-net-worth divorce involving business ownership or complex assets — precisely the niche this firm has built itself around — that combination of focus and trial credentials is a strong basis for a shortlist. For a more modest-asset or uncontested divorce, a firm with a broader client range may be more cost-proportionate.

Methodology and Sourcing

This profile was researched from Kirker Davis LLP’s official website (kirkerdavis.com), the firm’s Yelp review page, its BBB profile, third-party review-aggregator summaries, and independent directory listings documenting the partners’ credentials and media appearances. Review-pattern language attributed to “independent review-summary analysis” reflects third-party synthesis of the firm’s public review base rather than a single quoted client.

Publisher Disclosure and Independence Notice

Awesome Attorneys is an independent legal directory and editorial publication. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed by Kirker Davis LLP or its attorneys prior to publication. Awesome Attorneys may in the future offer sponsored placement products to attorneys and firms, including this one, but sponsorship has no bearing on the editorial content, inclusion, or findings of this profile.