Raina Spielman Newsome brings over 25 years of litigation experience and a proven track record of success. She is passionate about fighting for justice for victims of negligence and their families. Raina has a broad background in complex commercial litigation, products liability and personal injury, but her primary focus is on the complicated arena of medical malpractice litigation, especially birth injuries.
Raina earned her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance and Marketing with honors from The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin where she was on the Dean’s Honor List all four years and was selected to be a member of the National Business Honor Society. Raina earned her Juris Doctor with honors from The University of Texas School of Law, where she was recognized for earning the highest overall GPA first year and was selected to be on the Texas Law Review. She served as an Associate Editor of the Texas Law Review. Raina was also selected to join Order of the Coif, National Law Honor Society for the top 10% of United States Law School graduates.
Raina started her career as a litigation associate at the Houston office of Fulbright and Jaworski (now Norton Rose Fulbright), where she learned to try a case and handled complex commercial litigation, products liability, medical malpractice and catastrophic injury cases on behalf of defendants. Raina also worked for Hunton Andrews Kurth and its predecessor firms, specializing in medical malpractice and medical product litigation. She has tried jury trials, bench trials, arbitrations and performed appellate oral arguments.
Raina left Big Law to fight for the victims of negligence and medical malpractice. Her understanding of the realities of the defense of these types of cases provides her with insight on how to get the best results for her injured clients and their families. Raina fights zealously for her clients and has successfully recovered over $40 million in damages for her clients and their families, earning a membership to the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum.
In addition to being a member of the State Bar of Texas, Raina is also a member of the Arizona Bar and has been admitted to practice pro hac vice to represent victims of negligence and medical malpractice in multiple other states.
Raina has completed 7 full marathons, including the Boston Marathon, but she now prefers shorter runs, road cycling, hiking, and skiing. She is a mother to 3 wonderful human beings and a “Mimi” to a beautiful baby girl and they and her partner Tom Lightsey are the joy of her life..
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