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At a Glance
| Firm | Ried Pecina Trial Lawyers |
| Attorneys | Arthur S. Ried and Juan R. Pecina |
| Office | 6502 Bandera Rd., Suite 104, San Antonio, TX 78238 (also serving Brownsville and Harlingen) |
| Focus | A dual-practice trial firm: commercial trucking accidents and personal injury on one side, DWI/DUI and criminal defense on the other |
Sources: firm website (riedpecinatriallawyers.com). Compiled August 2026.
Origin
A Firm Split Cleanly Between Two Sides of the Courtroom
Ried Pecina Trial Lawyers is organized around two distinct practice groups on the firm’s own site — personal injury (representing injured plaintiffs) and criminal defense (representing people accused of crimes, including DWI) — rather than a single blended general practice. The firm markets itself around trial-readiness, stating clients work directly with the attorney handling their case rather than a case manager, and describes its trucking-accident attorneys as having backgrounds in “both plaintiff litigation and insurance defense.”
Practice
Trucking & Personal Injury
Per the firm’s own site, its personal injury practice covers truck accidents (18-wheelers, dump trucks, cement mixers, box trucks, tanker trucks, garbage trucks), car accidents, motorcycle accidents, bicycle accidents, bus accidents, pedestrian accidents, dog bites, slip and fall, catastrophic injuries, and wrongful death, serving San Antonio, Brownsville, and Harlingen.
DWI/DUI & Criminal Defense
Separately, the firm’s criminal defense group handles first-through-fourth-offense DWI cases, underage DUI cases, and the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Administrative License Revocation (ALR) process that runs alongside the criminal case, plus assault, drug offenses, serious felonies, theft, and weapons charges. The firm advertises 24/7 availability for arrests and describes its approach as reviewing the traffic stop, field sobriety testing, and breath or blood test procedures for weaknesses before deciding between negotiation, motion practice, or trial.
Track Record
No independently verifiable, itemized case-result compilation was located on the firm’s site for either practice group; criminal outcomes in particular are generally unsuitable for the kind of public “results” marketing used in civil litigation.
Past-Results Disclaimer: Every case is different, and no past result guarantees a similar outcome in any future matter.
Client Voice
The firm maintains a dedicated reviews page; specific dated, attributed client quotes were not extracted for this profile and should be reviewed directly on the firm’s site before engaging.
Community
No independently verifiable community or civic involvement was located in the sources reviewed for this profile.
Recognition
No State Bar of Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification (in Personal Injury Trial Law or Criminal Law) was located for either Ried or Pecina in the sources reviewed for this profile, and this profile does not use the word “specialist” for either attorney on that basis.
The Texas Legal Backdrop
What follows is general legal information, not legal advice.
On the injury side: Texas personal injury claims generally must be filed within two years under Civil Practice & Remedies Code § 16.003, and Texas follows a modified comparative responsibility system under § 33.001, barring recovery once a plaintiff is found more than 50% at fault. Commercial trucking cases add a federal layer of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration regulations on top of ordinary Texas negligence law.
On the criminal side: Texas charges Driving While Intoxicated under Penal Code § 49.04, with penalties escalating from a Class B misdemeanor on a first offense up to a felony on a third or subsequent offense. The Administrative License Revocation process runs separately from the criminal case through the Texas DPS, with its own short deadline — a late hearing request can mean an automatic license suspension regardless of how the criminal case turns out.
The Awesome Attorneys Assessment
Ried Pecina’s differentiator is genuine practice-area range built on two real, separately-staffed groups rather than a single lawyer claiming to do everything — trucking-accident attorneys with plaintiff and defense-side backgrounds on one side, a dedicated DWI/criminal defense group structured by offense level on the other. The honest trade-off: this profile located no board certification for either named attorney in either practice, and no independently sourced case outcomes for either side of the firm, so prospective clients are relying more on the firm’s own site content than third-party verification at this stage.
Methodology & Sourcing
This profile was researched in August 2026 from the firm’s own website, covering both its personal injury and criminal defense practice pages. Ried Pecina Trial Lawyers did not commission, review, or pay for this profile.
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