Contact: jim@wrencookattorneys.com

Jim has trained thousands of attorneys across the country in trial work.

He has more than 40 years of trial experience spanning a multitude of major personal injury, wrongful death, and business litigation jury trials. He is board certified in Civil Trial Law by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and in both Personal Injury Trial Law and Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

Jim has served as national president (2009-2011) of the National Board of Trial Advocacy, and as a founding chapter president (2003-2005) and again as a recent chapter president (2024-2025) with the American Board of Trial Advocacy (ABOTA). Until stepping away from the full-time tenured faculty of Baylor Law School to return to full-time trial practice in early 2025, he also served as the Leon Jaworski Chair of Practice & Procedure, the director of the Baylor Practice Court program, and co-director of the Baylor LL.M. in Litigation Management. He still teaches Advanced Trial Prep at Baylor Law as an adjunct professor.

Jim is an author or co-author of multiple books, articles, and CLE papers relating to civil litigation, including the latest book edition of Proving Damages to the Jury co-authored with Laura Brown (James Publishing, San Francisco, 2025). He is a graduate of Trial Lawyers College and a current director of Litigation Mastery, an educational non-profit training program focused on helping plaintiff lawyers move to the next level in their litigation careers.

Contact: louie@wrencookattorneys.com

Growing up in Waco as the son of a small business owner, Louie recognized early on the value honest entrepreneurship brings to our community and the damage that can be done when competitors cheat the rules. From an early age Louie’s father taught the concepts of authenticity, humility, audacity, creativity, and wisdom as the drivers in industry and personal life – not soaring profits at all cost. Louie watched his father lose out at times to businesses that did not hold the same values, which to this day acts as his inspiration to practice law.

After attending Oklahoma Baptist University on a cross-country and track scholarship Louie attended Baylor Law (on student loans, credit cards, his wife’s paycheck, and a lot of prayer) where he graduated magna cum laude. Louie also won the prestigious Mad Dog and Dawson Sodd Mock Trial/Moot Court competitions and served as an editor on Baylor’s Law Review.

During his practice, Louie has had the privilege of representing families and businesses in over 20 states. These cases have ranged as wide as unfair trade practices, product failures resulting in death, to oilfield explosions.

Currently, Louie’s role as a safety advocate has been focused on addressing unfair labor dumping by wall-street run mega fleets and brokers in the trucking industry. These practices have resulted in countless fatalities as well as loss of long-held family businesses. Some of the safest family owned trucking companies in the country along with countless families of victims have partnered with Louie to bring these dangerous practices to light.

Louie is married to his college sweetheart Nadia Cook. In their spare time Louie and Nadia enjoy creating and playing live music, surfing, and trying to keep up with their daughter.

Louie’s Core Values passed along from his father are as follows: 

1. Authenticity: Let your yes mean yes and your no mean no.

2. Humility: Elevating those around you through servant leadership.

3. Audacity: Growing through making the uncomfortable and often unpopular decision when necessary.

4. Creativity: Looking to different disciplines, fields of study, and art to solve complex and unorthodox problems.

5. Seeking Wisdom: Continually seeking the truth and distinction between right and wrong.

Louie believes that by following these core values he along with his clients can make a positive societal impact by making our world a safer and more fair place to live.

Contact: liz@wrencookattorneys.com

Elizabeth M. Fraley is a tenured Professor at Baylor Law School who serves as director of and teaches Practice Court.  She holds the Leon Jaworski Chair of Practice and Procedure. She serves as Dean and faculty at the School of the Trial, Academy of the Advocate in St. Andrews, Scotland and is called on often to teach ethics and evidence to judges and to attorneys in their trial practice.  Liz is an actively practicing attorney with more than 35 years of trial and mediation experience.  In addition to trying select cases, she now adds value as a jury and litigation consultant, offering unique and insightful assistance with case development, jury testing, theme development, overcoming evidence challenges, and crafting the jury charge. Her approach and expertise create efficiency and effectiveness in litigation for her client. 

Prof. Fraley has frequently been named a Texas Super Lawyer and was a D Magazine “Best Lawyers in Dallas” annually from 2011-2021. She was awarded the Louise B. Raggio award in 2023 by the Dallas Women’s Lawyers Association. The Raggio is presented to a lawyer who has demonstrated the highest levels of professionalism while making significant contributions to the advancement of women attorneys.  A member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), Fraley is past president of the Waco Chapter, a national board member and chairs the ABOTA Artificial Intelligence committee. She serves as faculty for the Judicial Education Conference, teaching evidence to sitting judges.  She is author of the updated Practical Guide to Texas Evidence, co-author of Fundamentals of Lawyer Leadership, and co-author of Texas Commercial Causes of Action as well as numerous articles on jury trials, evidence, leadership, AI, and litigation management and mastery. Prof. Fraley speaks in Texas and nationally on trial skills, litigation management and litigation mastery, virtual advocacy, leadership civil procedure and evidence.  An avid runner and traveler, she is the mother of six children.