Thomas Bickham
Texas Super Lawyer
Mr. Bickham has been an attorney since 1993 and is fluent in Spanish. He obtained a Finance degree from the University of Texas at Austin (1989) and then worked in Accounting for The Fuji Bank for one year. Mr. Bickham was not satisfied with a career in banking and decided to go to law school to fulfill his goal of becoming an attorney.
Mr. Bickham graduated from South Texas College of Law in 1993 where he received numerous advocacy awards. Since he became an attorney, Mr. Bickham has focused his entire career in civil litigation. He began his career working for the Law Offices of James D. Guiffre where he worked primarily on oil refinery cases involving Spanish speaking clients as well as a large number of commercial vehicle cases. Mr. Bickham recognized that working on the defense side could be beneficial to his development as an attorney and worked as a civil defense attorney with the firm Boston & Cunningham, P.C. primarily handling the defense of medical malpractice cases.
In 1997, Mr. Bickham returned to the plaintiff-side and worked for Jim S. Adler, P.C. and handled the firm’s medical malpractice, nursing home docket as well as a large number of commercial vehicle cases.
In 2003, Mr. Bickham began working for the nationally recognized Ammons Law Firm where he gained invaluable experience working on complex automobile products liability cases and commercial vehicle cases. With Mr. Ammons as his mentor, he gained unique insight and skills which led to significant personal and professional growth. He obtained a large number of 7-figure verdicts and settlements and left the firm in 2012 to pursue his goal of opening his own law firm – Bickham Law. Mr. Bickham has continued to obtain a large number of 6 and 7-figure results since opening Bickham Law.
Mr. Bickham has been chosen as a “Texas Super Lawyer” by Texas Monthly Magazine in 2007, and every year from 2009 through 2026. This is a distinction shared by only 5 percent of attorneys in Texas. In addition, Mr. Bickham is individually rated “AV – Preeminent” by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory – the highest rating available.




