ABOUT ME
Hi, I'm Jessica Caird
WHERE JESSICA COMES FROM
Jessica was raised in Dallas. She has lived in Houston since 1995 when she came to attend the University of Houston Law Center. Jessica knew she wanted to be a lawyer since high school when she joined the mock trial team as a freshman remaining on the team for all four years. She went to law school to become a prosecutor, and has fulfilled that dream for over 26 years as she worked as an Assistant District Attorney at the Harris County District Attorney's Office since 1998. She began as a trial prosecutor trying over 40 jury trials, the most recent of which she tried this past summer. During her time in the Trial Bureau, she acted as a chief prosecutor in the Juvenile Division for almost 3 years where she learned civil, as well as criminal law.
A THRIVING CAREER
Jessica began working as an appellate attorney in 2006, where she developed a passion for researching and writing about complex legal issues from pretrial writs of habeas corpus up through successfully seeing two death penalty convictions upheld on appeal against the defendants' efforts to overturn their death sentences. She has written over 440 briefs on behalf of the State of Texas which seek justice through affirming convictions in a variety of cases from capital murders to misdemeanors. She has written for the United States Supreme Court where she is admitted to their bar, the Texas Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeals, the First Court of Appeals, and the Fourteenth Court of Appeals among others. She has argued 30 times before the local appellate courts and 4 times before the Court of Criminal Appeals, the highest criminal appellate court in Texas.