How Can I Help You Move Forward?

I manage matters strategically and efficiently, ensuring each step aligns with your broader objectives. I take the time to understand your business, your industry, and your desired outcome to ensure mutual collaboration. By combining legal proficiency with a practical understanding of your goals, I focus on delivering results tailored to your needs while building lasting, trusted relationships along the way.

Overview

Max J. Wagner concentrates his practice on insurance coverage defense and litigation, representing clients through all stages of complex disputes. In addition to his litigation practice, he brings experience in appellate matters, multidistrict litigation, and personal injury defense, offering clients strategic insight across a broad range of contentious matters.

Throughout his career, Max has worked on claims resulting from catastrophic events, such as Winter Storm Uri. He is skilled at analyzing the applicable policies, caselaw and facts of each case to give his clients options for the best possible results. Primarily representing insurance companies against litigants to minimize exposure and company liability, as well as defending against exaggerated or false claims, Max works to ensure his clients achieve the earliest possible resolution both before and after disputes become lawsuits.

Outside the Office

When not assisting clients, Max values time spent with his wife, Bethany, and their three daughters. He also enjoys squeezing in a day on the golf course or clearing his mind with a strategic game of chess.

Education

  • University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 2019
    • President of Phi Delta Phi (international legal honor society)
    • Tri-Sector Leadership Fellows Program
  • Emory University, B.A., 2014
    • Eta Sigma Phi National Classics Honor Society

Admissions

Bar Admissions

  • Texas

Court Admissions

  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts of the Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern Districts of Texas
  • U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Professional Affiliations:

  • State Bar of Texas
  • Houston Bar Association
  • Houston Young Lawyers Association