Recognition

“Mr. Buzbee is a big, mean, ambitious, tenacious, fire-breathing Texas trial lawyer. Really big. Poster boy big.”

“For many, Buzbee is the guy to call when they have a wrong they want righted.”

“The list is long and the wins outnumber the losses by a wide margin.”

“I think Tony Buzbee is one of the most outstanding trial lawyers in Texas today. He has a high IQ, is smart, is a great orator and cross-examiner, and relates well to people. He is the best of his generation and is very successful.”

“Competitive? Michael Jordan is competitive. Tony Buzbee is a psycho. He’s obsessed with winning.”

“Buzbee was maniacal about preparation, working nonstop for weeks on end.”

“Tony Buzbee is the biggest, baddest, meanest dog in the yard—that’s a fact,” “But he’s also generous and he cares a lot about his people and his clients. He taught me everything I know about practicing law.”

“His shark-shaped cufflinks, the shark design on the tail of his private plane, his law firm’s slogan “Just Win,” all signal a tough, do-what-it-takes-to-win persona. It’s likely in his DNA.”

“Tony was the lead-by-example type,” said Chad Knopick, a lance cpl. under then-Lt. Buzbee in the weapons platoon of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion 4th Marines. “He would not expect you to do anything that he was not willing to do himself,” Knopick said. “Those types of leaders are easy to follow and this earned the respect of every Marine under his command.”

“Being second best was not an option in his book,” said Sgt. Maj. Chris Calhoun (Ret.), who served with Buzbee from 1992 through 1994. “He inspired everyone around him to achieve more than they thought possible.

“Buzbee won $41 million in the case of a seaman bitten by a brown recluse spider while working on a ship. He won $159 million from Valero after a refinery blast in Tennessee. He won $4 million, along with $25 million in punitive damages, in a case where a refinery worker died when a battery exploded. He won $35 million for a restaurant-chain owner in a partnership dispute. He represented Jimmy Buffett and the governments of Veracruz, Mexico, and the Basque region of Spain.”

“Tony was the epitome of the type of leader I had heard so much about from my grandfather, who served 22 years as a Marine. He was firm, but fair, and always led from example and never asked his Marines to do something that he would not do himself.”

“The name of this building [Buzbee Leadership Learning Center] is the epitome of honor, sacrifice and courage.”

“He is a very aggressive trial lawyer,” she said. “Extremely comfortable in the courtroom (and) very passionately fights for his clients. “He loves being a trial lawyer. The best ones do.”

“The first I heard of him was (former state Sen.) Babe Schwartz said watch out for this guy — he is a real up-and-comer,” Texas City Mayor Matt Doyle said. “That may have been a big understatement. He is definitely very good at what he does.”

“When Tony tries a case, he opens a flamethrower right away,” Richard Melancon, a former partner, says. “A flamethrower attached to a bulldozer.”

Whatever one may think of Tony Buzbee and his tribe morally, they are without doubt energetic, bold, and intelligent. - Colin Wright

I've known Tony Buzbee for years. He is more interesting than the Dos Equis character. He is a family man, a self-made man who came from nothing, a generous man in ways you can read about and ways you won't and as lawyers go he is in a class of his own. He has also done dangerous and life-threatening things in the service of his country. -” SCH”

“Governor Perry chose Tony Buzbee to lead his legal team because he has great confidence and trust in his abilities,” said Perry spokesman Travis Considine.

“Tony Buzbee is a real, genuine person. When he’s a friend of someone, he’s a friend. He cares about what you’re doing, and about your family.”

The leader of Perry’s legal team is a retired Marine captain who is known as a brash, skillful attorney out of Houston, described as one of the nation’s most successful trial lawyers by the New York Times.

“Tony Buzbee is a different cat,” “But he’s leading the next generation of top lawyers in Texas. I’ve known Joe Jamail and John O’Quinn and Tony is a throwback to that era. He has the legal abilities, the financial abilities and, most importantly, the huevos that most other lawyers don’t have.”

Tony Buzbee is a man who makes and then leaves his mark wherever he goes, especially in the courtroom.

Tony Buzbee is the hardest-working lawyer I know. He takes his own depositions and develops cases on his own rather than having his subordinates do so. You are not going to out prepare Tony. He knows his cases from the ground up. He has a great memory. He is the master of the deposition; he understands the psychology of the witness, his fears and sensitivities. Tony is very good at reading people. It is a challenge to have your witness ready for his cross-examination.”

I have always found Tony to be very prepared, creative in his approach, and someone who has always kept his word with me. He is a very formidable opponent.”

“I must say with all honesty your cross of our corporate rep was the best I have seen in my 50-year career.”

“I was born with a chip on my shoulder, and it’s still there,” he told me. “I live for fighting on behalf of the weak against the powerful. I enjoy getting my clients a bunch of money and putting the fear of God in those who are unfortunate enough to oppose me.”