Drew Willey Law

About Drew Willey:

Hard-working, caring, smart, and a man of his word. After working through school alongside the owners of a handful of small businesses, Drew started a professional tax career doing provision and compliance tax accounting at PricewaterhouseCoopers for a large and complex foreign real estate investment structure from oil and gas proceeds. After receiving a master’s in tax accounting at the #1 program in the country (University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business), he excelled in revenue and production analysis as an energy accountant at one of the largest oil and gas companies in Houston. To help clients more, he attended the University of Houston Law Center where his advocacy skills became immediately apparent in moot court competitions and alternative dispute resolution practice.

Immediately after taking the bar exam, he received nationally renowned litigation training from the Gideon’s Promise program. Alongside his practice in tax and civil matters, he quickly became known as one of the best litigators in the Harris County Criminal Courthouse. His dedication to providing passionate, proactive, and client-centered representation to marginalized people in the greater Houston area led him to co-found the non-profit, Restoring Justice, with his wife. Through his vision, leadership, and executive skills, Restoring Justice not only provides high-quality, holistic counsel to those who need it most, but also find ways to expose, disrupt, and fix the systemic racism and discrimination in our criminal legal system, proving that client-centered work can lead to systemic change - simultaneously improving hundreds of lives and saving our economy billions of dollars.

Today, Drew continues his near decade of serving clients in tax, civil, and criminal legal matters further explained throughout this site. He has been featured in publications like The New York Times, Texas Monthly, Texas Tribune, Newsweek, and the Houston Chronicle.

 
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Honors & Awards

  • University of Houston Law Center’s 2023 Alumni Association Public/Non-Profit Sector Achievement Award

  • Harris County Criminal Lawyers’ Association 2021 Unsung Hero Award

  • We Raise 2018 Emerging Leader Award

  • St. Mary’s UMC 2016 Outstanding Community Service Award for Ending the Southlawn Gang Injunction

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution certifications – Advanced Arbitration Skills & Texas Mediator Credentialing Association


Professional & Community Involvement

  • Restoring Justice Board member

  • Families of Conviction Board member

  • Christian Legal Society Houston Board Treasurer

  • Gideon’s Promise Alumni & Faculty – nationally premier litigation training program with a public defense focus                                                                            

  • Praxis Labs Cohort member – national redemptive entrepreneurship community

  • Greater Houston Community Foundation Next Gen Donor Institute & Giving Circle Alumni


Court Admissions

  • Texas

  • United States Supreme Court

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

  • United States Tax Court

  • United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas

  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

  • United States District Court for the Western District of Texas


Representative Matters

  • Handled case from trial level to a winning judgment after an oral argument before a hostile panel at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that set up a favorable ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court denying the opposition’s Petition for Writ of Certiorari.

  • First granted criminal petition for writ of mandamus by the First Court of Appeals of Texas in the last decade.

  • Six-figure settlement from Montgomery County in a case that led to jail-wide improvements for the prevention of suicide attempts.

  • One of only four six-figure settlements from Harris County over jail conditions in the past decade.

  • In a low-level felony in Montgomery County, two busted jury panels resulted in the county calling a venire larger than they do for capital murder cases, and the case resulted in the first ever accused felon being admitted into the county’s recovery program.

  • 15 dismissals for my clients in one day by applying federal legislation principles in Lomas, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, Civil Action No. 16-cv-3745 (United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, Houston Division), to state court cases systemically reforming the District Attorneys’ county-wide intake system by getting them to follow the law during their swearing and oath process of all complaints.

  • Successful representation of 92 young men against Harris County, preventing a first-of-its-kind civil injunction against them.

  • Advised multiple company start-ups, including the formation and eventual sale of a local business.

  • Publication: “Resurgence of EOR Credits: Oil Tax Planning Opportunity.” Texas Tax Lawyer, Vol. 43 No. 2, Winter 2016: 116-17. Print and Internet. (Correctly predicted the return and industry impact of Enhanced Oil Recovery Tax Credits). 

Primary Office in Houston, Texas

P.O. Box 30317, Houston, TX 77249

Drew@Law-DW.com

713-739-9455 p

713-510-1950 f