William Wallace Reade III

William Wallace Reade III is a Litigation Attorney at John K. Zaid & Associates with close to a decade in personal injury practice and a resume that stretches from Houston courtrooms to law offices in Madrid and London. Over his career he has resolved thousands of injury cases, with total recoveries reaching into the tens of millions of dollars, and he describes his role plainly: standing between severely injured people and the insurance companies trying to underpay them.

Reade handles the full spectrum of vehicle and injury litigation, including car accidents, commercial 18-wheeler and trucking cases, premises liability matters, and wrongful death claims. Trucking cases in particular reward his depth of experience, because commercial carriers and their insurers defend those claims aggressively from the first phone call.

A Houston native raised in the Memorial area, Reade graduated from The Kinkaid School, where he played football and basketball, ran track, and worked in the journalism program. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in History with a minor in International Business from the University of Texas at Austin in 2015, studying abroad in Barcelona along the way, then completed his Juris Doctor at South Texas College of Law Houston in 2018. During law school he served as an Associate Editor of the Texas Journal of Business Law, earned a Certificate in Transactional Law, became a Certified Mediator in the State of Texas, a credential that pays off daily in settlement talks, and clerked at both Greenberg Traurig LLP and The Leigh Law Firm. He then earned an LLM in International Sports Law from the Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía in Madrid and practiced for six months at Northridge Law, LLP, a sports law boutique in London, before returning home to Houston.

Away from the office, Reade is a husband to Cinthya, father to their son Leo, and owner of a dog named Gizmo. He follows Houston sports and Premier League soccer and loves working through the city’s underrated restaurant scene.

Reade suits injury victims who want a seasoned negotiator with genuine volume experience, particularly people hurt in car and commercial truck crashes and families pursuing wrongful death claims. His mediator training means he knows how to close cases at fair value without needless delay, and his willingness to litigate keeps insurers honest. Consultations are free, and the firm’s contingency structure means clients owe nothing unless they recover.