Attorney
Houston, Texas, 77006
Aggressive, bold, and creative – Attorney Gilde has the experience and the proven ability to succeed where other lawyers and law firms fail. As the founder of Gilde Law Firm, Bradford Gilde is dedicated to helping clients with their legal issues – trucking and auto accidents, industrial accidents, mass torts, defective products, plant/refinery explosions, maritime/oil platform injuries, and all severe personal injuries.
From his success as a trial attorney, he brings keen strategic foresight, extensive factual knowledge, and a commitment to client satisfaction in every case. Bradford Gilde attended The University of Texas at Austin (UT), where he graduated with a degree in Philosophy and Government with a minor in Business. While at UT, Bradford Gilde competed in interscholastic Mock Trials and was President/Captain of the UT Judo Team, where he fought in numerous collegiate, state, and national competitions.
After UT, Brad Gilde returned to Houston, Texas, to attend South Texas College of Law-Houston (STCL) – the best law school in the country for trial advocacy. Bradford Gilde competed successfully in numerous national mock trial competitions and was awarded the Order of Barristers. After receiving his JD, Attorney Gilde returned to STCL as an adjunct law professor – teaching Mock Trial Litigation and coaching STCL’s nationally competing varsity mock trial teams. Attorney Gilde pursued a career representing injured people and their families after law school.
Attorney Gilde has been honored to work for some of Houston’s most elite plaintiff trial firms, including The Lanier Law Firm, Aaron J. DeLuca, PLLC, and Matthews & Associates—Bradford J. Gilde Attorney Gilde’s past guides Gilde Law Firm’s philosophy. A Shodan in Judo, Judo strongly shaped Attorney Gilde’s view of litigation and advocacy. Judo requires a fighter who is constantly moving, acting, and reacting offensively and defensively, fighting smaller, leaner than your opponent, and often allowing your opponent to defeat itself. Judo is an Olympic sport where competitors fight, under rules, to win. The trial is no different.
The trial is a competition between two sides – the Plaintiff vs. the Defendant(s); the prosecution has rules – rules of evidence, procedure, and the law; the trial is a fight – justice is not freely given without one; and in the trial, there is only one winner. Attorney Gilde uses these same combative tactics in litigation and advocacy as a trial lawyer.
That is, “constantly moving” requires constant pressure on defendants by aggressively filing legal papers first and often; “acting and reacting both offensively and defensively” requires using the law as both a sword and a shield to advance the client’s interests; “fighting smaller, leaner than your opponent” requires using big-firm thinking in a small-firm setting, so that the lawyer can act and react quickly without being burdened by big-firm inefficiencies; and “giving-way” requires seeing the big picture – knowing when and how to capitalize on your opponent’s mistakes to win the case.
