Sara Turman

Sara Turman-Vedral occupies an unusual niche among Dallas injury lawyers: she is an appellate specialist working on the plaintiff’s side. While most personal injury attorneys concentrate on building a case for settlement or trial, Turman-Vedral’s craft is the written legal argument — the briefing and appeals work that can preserve a hard-won verdict or revive a claim after an adverse ruling. For injury victims whose cases raise complicated legal questions, that skill set can be the difference between winning and losing.

Her career began in 1997 at Jose, Henry, Brantley & Keltner, where she concentrated on appellate matters and personal injury litigation. In 2000 she opened her own practice, the Law Office of Sara Turman-Vedral, before later joining Freese & Goss in Dallas. Appellate work has taken her across a wide range of legal territory, and she has developed a particular focus on complex litigation — class actions, mass torts, consumer cases, and personal injury claims. She is admitted to practice before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Turman-Vedral’s academic record was strong from the start. Raised in Chadron, Nebraska, she attended Texas Christian University as a National Merit Scholar and graduated magna cum laude in 1994. She earned her J.D. cum laude from Southern Methodist University School of Law in 1997 as a Hatton Sumners Scholar, and served as an editor of the SMU Law Review from 1995 to 1997.

At Freese & Goss — a firm whose founding partners bring more than 77 years of combined experience — Turman-Vedral supports the firm’s mass tort and complex injury docket with nearly three decades of appellate and litigation experience of her own.

She is a particularly good fit for injury victims whose claims involve mass tort litigation, class actions, or thorny legal issues likely to be fought in the appellate courts. Freese & Goss offers free consultations, and injury clients pay nothing unless the firm recovers compensation.