Chad Flores founded Flores Law after specializing in appeals for over a decade at Beck Redden LLP, where he was a partner in the appellate section. He has been Board Certified in Civil Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 2012. Before entering private practice, Chad clerked for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Supreme Court of Texas.

In federal litigation, Chad has served as lead counsel before the Supreme Court of the United States at both the merits and petition stages, as well as in federal circuit and district courts across the country. In Texas, he appears regularly before the Supreme Court of Texas and supports trial counsel in lower courts statewide.

For over a decade, Chad has been named a Super Lawyer and/or Rising Star in Appellate Law by Thompson Reuters. He was recently recognized by Best Lawyers in America in the field of appellate litigation and was honored by Benchmark Litigation for commercial and white-collar litigation accomplishments.

Chad teaches appellate advocacy at the University of Houston Law Center’s Blakely Advocacy Institute and is a guest lecturer at the University of Texas School of Law. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and American University’s Washington College of Law.

Partner, Beck Redden LLP

Law Clerk, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Law Clerk, Supreme Court of Texas

J.D., American University Washington College of Law

B.A., The University of Texas at Austin, Government

United States Supreme Court Historical Society

Texas Supreme Court Historical Society

Bar Association for the Fifth Federal Circuit

Texas Bar Association, Appellate Section

Houston Bar Association, Appellate Section

Houston Young Lawyers Association

Levinson Alcoser Assocs., L.P. v. El Pistolon II, Ltd., No. 21-0797 (Tex. 2023).

New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S.Ct. 2111 (2022) (amicus curiae).

Azteca Int’l Corp. v. Ruiz, No. 13-21-00241-CV, 2022 WL 17983161 (Tex. App.—Corpus Christi–Edinburg 2022).

Defense Distributed v. Grewal, 971 F.3d 485 (5th Cir. 2020).

Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Inv. Services of Nevada, Inc. v. Chandra, 822 F. App’x 597 (9th Cir. 2020).

Freeman v. American K-9, No. 15-0932 (Tex. 2017).

Levinson Alcoser Assocs., L.P. v. El Pistolon II, Ltd., 513 S.W.3d 487 (Tex. 2017).

Collins v. Federal Housing Finance Agency, 254 F. Supp. 3d 841 (S.D. Tex. 2017).

Owens v. Jastrow, 789 F.3d 529 (5th Cir. 2015)

Glassell Producing Co. v. Jared Res., Ltd., 422 S.W.3d 68 (Tex. App.—Texarkana 2014).