Ranelle M. Meroney
Partner
Practices
- Product & General Liability
- Construction
- Trials
Attorney Biography
Ranelle Meroney is a Partner in the firm’s Austin office. She has been trial lawyer for more than 35 years and has tried over 100 first-chair jury trials across the state of Texas. She focuses primarily on the defense of personal injury, property damage, employment, and construction cases, with a special emphasis on premises liability matters.
Ranelle is board-certified in personal injury trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. She also serves as a lecturer for the Trial Advocacy Program at the University of Texas School of Law.
Publications & Presentations
Presentations
- Presentation of Evidence: Seeing is Believing,” Austin Bar Association: 14th Annual Ultimate Trial Notebook Seminar, Austin, Texas, October 2018
- Dealing With Outside Counsel: Lessons Learned From Baseball, Texas Lawyer's In-House Counsel Summit, March 30, 2016
- Paid or Incurred, Subrogation/Liens, In-house Claims Handling Seminar, 2014
- Secondary Payer, Medicare Update, In-house Claims Handling Seminar, 2011-2014
Admissions
- Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern, Southern, and Western Districts of Texas
- U.S. Supreme Court
Memberships
- State Bar of Texas
- Litigation Section
- Construction Section
- Austin Bar Association
- Texas Association of Defense Counsel
- Defense Research Institute
- American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)
- Advocate
- President, Austin Chapter, 2019
- Foundation of the American Board of Trial Advocates, Fellow
- Association of Defense Trial Attorneys
- College of the State Bar of Texas
- Barbara Jordan Inn of Court, Founding Master
Education
J.D., University of Texas School of Law, 1979
B.A., with distinction, University of Colorado Boulder, 1977
Honors
Board Certified, Personal Injury Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization
Preeminent® Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell® Judicial Edition
Austin's Top Attorneys for Civil Law Litigation, Austin Monthly Magazine (2020-2021)
Best Lawyers in America® distinction in Construction Law (2021-2025), Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants (2022-2025), Litigation - Construction (2025), Litigation - Labor and Employment (2025)
Super Lawyers® Distinction (2016-2019)
Honorary Member of Board of Barristers, University of Texas School of Law
Pathfinder Award, Travis County Women Lawyers Association (2014)
Outstanding Achievement Award, Travis County Women Lawyers Association (2013)