Anastacio Trae Mindiola is a graduate of the South Texas College of Law and a member of the State Bar of Texas. For the last eight years, Anastacio Mindiola has managed his Houston practice while overseeing several unique civil lawsuits.Any individual who has had a negative experience with an attorney affiliated with the State Bar of Texas can visit www.texasbar.com and begin filing an official grievance. With a few exceptions, grievances must be filed within four years of the incident in question. A person does not need to have been a client of an attorney at any point to file a grievance. Rather, any individual with knowledge of unethical behavior is encouraged to elevate standards of the state’s legal service by filing a complaint.Grievances can be filed online or by mail. All grievances are reviewed by the Chief Disciplinary Counsel and responded to within 30 days of filing. Following the classification stage, a complaint is either filed as an “inquiry,” and subsequently dismissed, or as a “complaint,” in which case the grievance is more thoroughly investigated over a series of additional stages. Inquiries can be appealed through the Board of Disciplinary Appeals (BODA) or by amending the initial complaint, though amendments must contain new, pertinent information.
For more than seven years, Anastacio Mindiola has been working as an attorney at his own practice in Houston, Texas. Anastacio “Trae” Mindiola represents clients involved in civil cases such as mass torts, insurance claims, and product liability claims.In product liability claims, design defects, manufacturing defects, or marketing defects may be deemed liable by courts for injuries. A design defect is a mistake in a product's design that makes the product inherently dangerous. For example, top-heavy cars that have a high risk of tipping over are defectively designed. All products with design defects are dangerous to consumers even if the products are perfectly made by the manufacturers. In the event of a design defect, the engineers and designers are generally held liable for resulting injuries.Products that are designed safely but manufactured incorrectly are said to have a manufacturing defect. Manufacturing defects, which are introduced when the product is being made, do not apply to an entire product line. To make a manufacturing injury claim, the injury must be caused by a manufacturing defect that made the product reasonably unsafe. Product manufacturers are liable for manufacturing defects.Marketing defects apply to incorrectly labeled products. This includes problems with the instructions and with product warnings written to protect consumers from a possibly unsafe aspect of the product. Distributors, manufacturers, and retailers may be held liable for marketing defects since they all are responsible for the proper labeling of products.
