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Braziel Law Offices, P.C.: One Attorney, Three Firm Names, Twenty-Three Years on Super Lawyers

J. Derek Braziel has been board certified in Labor and Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization for most of his career, and selected to the Super Lawyers list every year from 2003 through 2025 — twenty-three consecutive years. What has changed around that constant is the name on the door. He has practiced as part of Lee & Braziel, LLP, then Braziel Dixon, LLP, and now, according to his current State Bar of Texas registration, as Braziel Law Offices, P.C. For anyone comparing a Dallas employment lawyer by longevity and peer standing rather than firm size, that continuity of person across three firm names is itself worth noting.

At a Glance: This Dallas Wage and Hour Lawyer’s Credentials

I. A Name That Has Changed, A Focus That Hasn’t

Derek Braziel graduated magna cum laude from Baylor University in 1992 with a B.B.A. in marketing and statistics, then earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1995, the same year he was admitted to the Texas bar. Early in his career, as a partner at Lee & Braziel, LLP, he oversaw the firm’s wage-and-hour practice — the firm ran a dedicated site, OvertimeLawyer.com, built specifically around unpaid-wage and overtime claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and one peer review from that period described him as a nationally recognized expert in wage and hour law.

By the 2010s, Braziel had moved into a new partnership, Braziel Dixon, LLP, alongside attorney Megan Dixon. Dixon left that firm in 2022 to join Clouse Brown PLLC as an executive employment attorney, and has since moved further, to an in-house labor and employment counsel role at Commercial Metals Company. Braziel’s current State Bar of Texas registration and his 2026 Best Lawyers listing both show his firm as Braziel Law Offices, P.C. — a name Awesome Attorneys is using for this profile because it reflects his present bar registration, even though some third-party directories and the practice’s own older marketing site still display the prior Braziel Dixon branding.

II. Credentials That Predate the Current Firm Name

Braziel’s board certification, Super Lawyers streak, and Best Lawyers recognition were all built under earlier firm names and have carried forward intact. He has held his Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification in Labor and Employment Law across all three iterations of his practice, and Best Lawyers credits his recognition in Employment Law — Individuals to 2008, an eighteen-year run through the current 2026 edition. He is also listed among the Wage and Hour Trial Lawyers Association’s Top 10, a credential that traces directly back to his Lee & Braziel-era FLSA litigation work.

III. Practice Concentration

Braziel’s Super Lawyers listing categorizes his work specifically as “Employee and Employment Litigation: Plaintiff” — an explicit plaintiff-side designation, not a general employment-law label that could include defense-side work. His stated practice areas span discrimination (race, age, gender, disability, pregnancy, religious, and military status), sexual and other workplace harassment, wrongful termination, retaliation, wage and overtime claims, FMLA disputes, non-compete and trade-secret matters, and USERRA claims for service members. He is also fluent in Spanish, a detail several attorney directories list explicitly and that matters practically for a Dallas-area employment practice serving a large Spanish-speaking workforce.

IV. Track Record

Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome. Employment settlements are frequently confidential by the terms employers negotiate, which limits what any firm — including this one — can publish about specific case outcomes.

Awesome Attorneys was unable to independently verify specific settlement or verdict figures attributable to Braziel individually across his three firm iterations; none of the current directories, bar records, or award listings reviewed for this profile publish itemized case results. What the public record does show is sustained peer recognition — unbroken Super Lawyers selection since 2003 and Best Lawyers recognition since 2008 — which functions as a longevity signal, not a substitute for case-specific outcome data. That gap is disclosed here rather than filled with estimated or unverifiable figures.

V. Client Voice

Public client reviews specific to Braziel Law Offices, P.C. under its current name were not found during this research; the practice appears to be too recently renamed, or too low-volume in web-visible reviews, to have generated a fresh review base under that name. The peer commentary that does exist predates the current firm name: a colleague reviewing his Lee & Braziel-era work described him as a careful, hard-working lawyer with a national reputation in wage-and-hour litigation. USAttorneys.com separately lists a 5.0 Martindale-Hubbell peer rating attributed to Braziel, though the underlying individual reviews were not independently viewable at the time of this research.

VI. Beyond the Courtroom

Braziel’s federal court admissions span the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and all four U.S. District Courts in Texas — Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western — reflecting a practice built to litigate wherever in the state a client’s case lands, not one confined to a single division. His two-decade specialization in wage-and-hour law, dating back to his time overseeing that practice area at Lee & Braziel, positioned him early in a niche that has only grown more active in Texas employment litigation since.

VII. Recognition

Peer-reviewed and independently conferred credentials: Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification in Labor and Employment Law; Super Lawyers selection every year from 2003 through 2025; Best Lawyers recognition in Employment Law — Individuals since 2008, carrying into the 2026 edition; a Best Law Firms ranking in Employment Law — Individuals credited to his current firm; and inclusion among the Wage and Hour Trial Lawyers Association’s Top 10.

Awesome Attorneys did not identify any marketing-program-only awards (pay-to-play recognition lists) claimed by Braziel; the credentials located are drawn from peer-review processes throughout.

VIII. The Texas Legal Backdrop

Braziel’s wage-and-hour focus runs through the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, which generally carries a two-year statute of limitations for unpaid overtime and minimum-wage claims, extended to three years where the violation is shown to be willful. Texas’s own wage-payment statute, the Texas Payday Act (Texas Labor Code Chapter 61), provides a separate, state-level avenue for certain wage disputes, administered through the Texas Workforce Commission.

On the discrimination and harassment side of his practice, federal claims under Title VII, the ADA, and the ADEA generally require an EEOC charge before a lawsuit can proceed, while the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act (Texas Labor Code Chapter 21) requires a parallel charge with the Texas Workforce Commission’s Civil Rights Division within 180 days of the alleged discriminatory act. Members of the military and reservists pursuing USERRA claims — one of Braziel’s listed practice areas — proceed under a distinct federal framework with no state statute-of-limitations equivalent, since USERRA generally has no filing deadline for initiating a claim.

IX. Awesome Attorneys Assessment: This Dallas Employment Lawyer’s Strengths and Limits

Braziel’s central strength is longevity and consistency of peer regard across a career that has otherwise changed firm names three times: twenty-three consecutive years on Super Lawyers and eighteen consecutive years with Best Lawyers are not easy streaks to interrupt, and neither depends on which name is on the letterhead in a given year. His early specialization in wage-and-hour litigation, a niche that has grown steadily more active in Texas employment law, also gives him a depth of subject-matter history that a newer solo practice would lack.

The honest limitation is transparency during the transition to his current firm name. Braziel Law Offices, P.C. does not appear to have an updated, standalone marketing website reflecting the current name at the time of this research — the domain most closely associated with his practice history (texasemploymentattorney.com) still displays the prior Braziel Dixon branding. Prospective clients searching by his current registered firm name may have a harder time finding him online than searching by his name directly. As a now-solo practice (based on available records), he also cannot offer the bench depth of a multi-attorney firm like Gillespie Sanford LLP or Rob Wiley, P.C. for larger or multi-track litigation.

X. Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was compiled from the State Bar of Texas attorney directory (texasbar.com), which lists Braziel’s current firm as Braziel Law Offices, P.C.; Best Lawyers’ 2026 firm and attorney listings; Super Lawyers’ attorney profile; Martindale-Hubbell attorney and firm profiles; the Wage and Hour Trial Lawyers Association’s member listing; and historical firm materials from Lee & Braziel, LLP (OvertimeLawyer.com) and Braziel Dixon, LLP, used only to document firm-name history and not treated as current operational information. The discrepancy between Braziel’s current bar registration and older third-party and firm-site branding is disclosed above rather than resolved by guesswork. No case results, credentials, or quotes were invented; where verifiable case-outcome data or current client reviews were not available, those gaps are disclosed rather than filled.

Publisher Disclosure & Independence Notice

Awesome Attorneys is an independent legal directory and editorial publication. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed by Braziel Law Offices, P.C. prior to publication. Awesome Attorneys may in the future offer sponsored placements clearly labeled as such, but no payment of any kind determines inclusion in, or the content of, this editorial profile. This article is for informational purposes only, does not constitute legal advice, and does not create an attorney-client relationship between the reader and Braziel Law Offices, P.C. or Awesome Attorneys.