Criminal Law

• Wrongful Death
  Along with an increase in Texas-Mexico trade, NAFTA has brought us truck accidents, tractor-trailer accidents, 18-wheeler wrecks and other big rig crashes and catastrophes on roadways all over the Border Region and most of the Southwest, including South Texas. Each year countless severe personal injuries involving paralysis, spinal cord damage, brain injury, brain damage, closed head injury, amputation, severe burn, and even wrongful death occur because of unnecessary, preventable truck-auto accidents. And as big-rigs from Mexico increasingly ply our roadways, both the frequency of truck accidents and the severity of their personal injuries will rise, particularly along the corridors between the interior cities and border ports-of-entry: San Antonio, Laredo, Corpus Christi, Eagle Pass, Crystal City, Del Rio, Alice, San Diego, Hebbronville, McAllen, Edinburg, Brownsville, Harlingen, Rio Grande City, Roma and the entire Rio Grande Valley all are likely to see more such tractor-trailer accidents and their tragic consequences. Too, tractor-trailer rigs’ huge size by itself virtually guarantees much worse personal injuries following a truck accident than from other types of auto accidents and traffic crashes.

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Disputes
  In Texas, no attorney is a stronger advocate for his client than Virgil Yanta of the Yanta Law Firm. Whether you are in San Antonio, Laredo, Eagle Pass, Crystal City, Del Rio, McAllen, Harlingen, Brownsville, other Rio Grande Valley towns, or anywhere else in South or Central Texas, life-shattering business disputes require serious help from a trusted professional. South Texas business disputes lawyer Virgil Yanta has been Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1987, with decades of experience in successfully recovering millions for countless satisfied clients. An expert at rebuilding shattered lives, Virgil Yanta has been there before, understands your immediate needs, and will work quickly to get full justice for you and your business.
• Unfair Competition
  In Texas, small businesses victimized by fraud, unfair competition, unfair practices, trade disparagement or commercial defamation, antitrust violations, and other so-called business torts often suffer tremendous legal damages — so much so that they can be driven out of business. No attorney is a stronger advocate for his client, or more versatile, than Virgil Yanta of the Yanta Law Firm.
• Antitrust
  In Texas, small businesses victimized by fraud, unfair competition, unfair practices, trade disparagement or commercial defamation, antitrust violations, and other so-called business torts often suffer tremendous legal damages — so much so that they can be driven out of business. Not only do business owners seldom know all their legal rights, but also their commercial attorneys often fail to recognize the legal remedies available to redress the wrongs done to their clients. For example, the federal law known as the Lanham Act provides important legal rights and remedies available to many victims of unfair or unscrupulous business practices; yet, many commercial attorneys never even have heard of that effective remedial statute. Surely small businesses, the backbone of the Texas economy, deserve to have their rights enforced as aggressively as do individuals.

Employment Law

• Workers Compensation
  Qui tam lawsuits) that seek a reward or bounty for reporting fraud on the U.S. government. Found in the Texas Labor Code, this workers compensation law protects the injured worker – as well as those who assist that worker – from being fired or otherwise discriminated against in any way because of filing or helping with any workers’ comp claim.
• Wrongful Termination
  Cases under the workers’ comp anti-retaliation, anti-discrimination and wrongful termination or discharge law often are labeled as “whistleblower” claims, just as are federal False Claims Act cases (via

Property Law

• Easement

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Victims of accidents who are in need of a Texas personal injury lawyer already face enough obstacles, challenges and problems: pain, suffering, disability, mental anguish causing family tensions and stress, income loss, and huge medical bills, to name a few. Why add yet another hassle – travel to a lawyer’s office?
• Auto Accidents

Trusts and Estates

• Power of Attorney
  Depending on the fact situation, examples of fiduciary relationships and responsibilities may arise between managing partners, corporate officers, joint venturers, employees, securities brokers, escrow agents, insurance agents, holders of power of attorney, estate executors, trustees, mineral rights holders, and condominium board members. Additionally, fiduciary relationships may be created by informal situations, depending on the circumstances.