[ 02 / About Kent Starr ]
Thirty years of criminal trial practice. Fifteen thousand cases. One attorney.
Kent Starr's office is at 5900 S Lake Forest Dr, McKinney. He has tried matters from misdemeanor county-court dockets to first-degree felony jury trials across Collin County and the wider DFW region.
[ 03 / The Story ]
Kent Wade Starr did not set out to be a criminal defense lawyer. He studied international law at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1998, expecting to spend a career in treaties and trade. The English approach to legal reasoning he learned there has stayed with him since. It still shapes every motion he writes.
He came home from Oxford to a different kind of question. Where does a Texan with a year of Oxford international-law study actually practice? The honest answer for Kent was that the work he wanted to do was the work that put him on his feet in a courtroom, on behalf of an actual person with an actual problem. He has been doing that, somewhere in Texas, almost every week since 1997.
[ 04 / Philosophy ]
“Three decades of Texas criminal trials. Every case, from first call to verdict, handled by Kent personally.”
When clients call Starr Law, P.C., they reach Kent. Not an intake coordinator who promises Kent will get back to them. When they walk into the McKinney office, they meet with Kent. The cross-examination at trial is done by Kent. The firm has resisted the partnership-track economics that turn most defense practices into assembly lines.
[ 05 / Credentials ]
A foundation in rigorous legal reasoning.
Education
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University of Arkansas at Little Rock
1996J.D.
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Magdalen College, Oxford
1998International Law
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University of Denver
2001LL.M., Taxation
Clerkships
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Supreme Court of Arkansas
CareerAppellate clerkship
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Navajo Nation Supreme Court
CareerAppellate clerkship
Bar Admissions
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State Bar of Texas
ActiveBar Card 00798527, admitted 1997
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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
ActiveFederal appellate practice
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U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
ActiveFederal trial practice
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U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
ActiveFederal trial practice
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U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
ActiveFederal trial practice
[ 06 / Jurisdictions ]
Counties of practice:
Collin · Dallas · Denton · Tarrant · Rockwall · Kaufman · Ellis · Johnson · Parker
[ 08 / Beyond the Law ]
Kent is a former Golden Gloves boxer and earned his black belt in 1989. The discipline of those traditions sits naturally next to thirty years of trial advocacy. He speaks Spanish and Portuguese in addition to English, which has mattered to clients and families more times than he can count, especially when fear and unfamiliar courts are part of the conversation.
[ 07 / Consultation ]
Speak in confidence.
Request a consultation. We answer the phone, including on Sundays.