Shurtleff Law

02/18/2026

Wayland Van Nest, a dedicated public servant with 24 years of experience, committed to bringing integrity, efficiency, and transparency to the District Clerk's office to better serve Brazos County with strong professional leadership.

04/11/2024

Cars crashing into restaurants, convenience stores, and shopping centers is a common occurrence. The reasons why this happens varies and can be due to many factors such as inattention, mistake in shifting to park, foot slipping off the pedal or a medical illness or seizure. One common theme is the landowner or business fails to place any protection for the building from vehicle traffic (such as a bollard, rock, concrete wall).

Shurtleff Law successfully helped a young man with serious injuries from this type of crash recently. We hope all of those injured at the restaurant a full recovery.

Several people are injured after a car crashed into the Stella Southern Cafe Wednesday.

05/05/2023

Gary Blair is a treasure for our community. Shurtleff Law is proud to support his golf tournament. What a great day and turnout. And those The Bloody Buddy bloody Mary's are fantastic.

04/29/2023

Break out the searsuckers. Attended Atticus Finch Day with my friends and colleagues in the Brazos County Bar Association .
In a profession that brings constant conflict, it's nice to reset and remember you can zealously represent your clients and still maintain civility and compassion. Atticus set a bar few will reach, but we can continue to strive to be more like him.w/ Marca Ewers-Shurtleff, Bryan City Council District 5

11/30/2022

Shurtleff Law Marca Ewers-Shurtleff for Bryan City Council District 5 and Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Brazos Valley will be in the parade again this year. Come join us and the Grinch on Thursday Dec. 8, 6 pm.

02/17/2022

As a past president of the Brazos County Bar Association, I appreciate Kyle Kacal speaking to the members today. Marca Theresa Ewers, P.C.

03/31/2021

Sometimes you just take a case because you believe in it. Sometimes you just get a dog of a case.

After over a year of not having jury trials, Brazos County Court at Law No.1 conducted its first jury trial last week. Shurtleff Law was successful in obtaining a jury verdict in favor of our client Morgan Seekatz regarding permanent possession of her personal property (a dog!). Morgan did a great job, the jury loved her. Fantastic work by the whole team including Marca Theresa Ewers-Shurtleff

Morgan’s gorgeous doggie Nugget is happy too.

We all love our dogs. They are part of our family right? Interesting side note on Texas law regarding damages available for the loss of a family pet: Can a dog owner recover emotional based damages for the loss of a dog? The Texas Supreme Court says no. The law says that pet loss (just like other personal property) is limited to the market value of the pet, and a court cannot award damages for loss of relationship, love or companionship.

Do you need a trial lawyer to help you with your case, injury claim or a problem with your business? Call Shurtleff Law today www.bcsattorney.com

04/03/2020

Fatty’s Smoke Shop in McLennan County was told it could reopen so long as its clerks followed social distancing best practices.

03/25/2020

Do you have contract or lease issues related to COVID-19?

Your contract may have provisions that provide relief based on the current State and local orders declaring a state of disaster.

A" force majeure" clause may be in your contract. It's a $10 lawyer term that provides excuse from performance based upon unforeseen events: acts of God, strike, fire, flood... and depending on the terms, acts of any local, state or federal government.

Additionally, Texas law recognizes that performance by a party under a contract can be excused under the doctrines of impossibility of performance, commercial impracticability, and frustration of purpose. After a contract is made, a party's performance may be made impracticable or impossible without fault by the party, preventing the ability to perform the basic assumption on which the contract was made.

Shurtleff Law is a civil trial law firm handling all areas of litigation, business disputes, business counseling and other matters.

We are open. Call for a phone appointment today:
979-446-4012

https://www.shurtlefflaw.com/