About the Attorney
Kent Starr
Oxford-Educated Criminal Defense Attorney
Defending Texans for 30 Years
The Story
An International Lawyer Who Chose the Courtroom
Kent Starr did not set out to be a criminal defense lawyer. He set out to study international law, and after finishing his undergraduate work he went to Oxford University in 1998 to do exactly that. The English approach to legal reasoning — slow, textual, suspicious of easy answers — left a mark on him that has never quite faded.
He came home from Oxford to a different kind of question: where does an Oxford-trained international lawyer actually practice? The honest answer for Kent was that the work he wanted to do was the work that put him in a courtroom, on his feet, advocating for an actual person with an actual problem. He has been doing that, somewhere in Texas, almost every week since.
Credentials
A Foundation in Rigorous Legal Reasoning
Oxford University
International Law
The English approach to legal reasoning — slow, textual, suspicious of easy answers — left a mark on Kent that has never faded.
University of Denver
LL.M., Taxation
An advanced credential that has proven useful in white-collar and tax-fraud cases more often than expected.
Supreme Court Clerkships
Arkansas & Navajo Nation
Appellate work that taught Kent to read briefs with a judge’s impatience for sloppy citations and self-serving argument.
More than fifteen thousand cases later — misdemeanor county-court trials, first-degree felony jury trials, federal indictments in the Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas, and oral arguments before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit — the Oxford training still shows up in every motion.
Philosophy
“Mr. Starr will put his trial experience up against any attorney in the State of Texas.”
When clients call Starr Law P.C., they reach Kent — not an intake coordinator who promises Kent will get back to them. When clients walk into the McKinney office, they meet with Kent. The cross-examination at trial is done by Kent. For three decades the firm has resisted the partnership-track economics that turn most defense practices into assembly lines. The trade-off is fewer cases at any one time. The benefit is that every case gets the experience of the lawyer the client actually hired.
Recognition
Trusted Across North Texas
Starr Law P.C. represents clients throughout Dallas, Tarrant, Collin, Denton, Rockwall, Kaufman, Ellis, Johnson, and Parker Counties. The firm has earned more than five hundred verified five-star client reviews over the years; reading them gives a more honest portrait of the work than any résumé.
Beyond the Courtroom
Discipline Built Outside the Law
Kent is a former Golden Gloves boxer who holds a first-degree black belt. The discipline of those traditions — the willingness to take the shot in front of you and keep working — sits naturally next to thirty years of trial advocacy. He speaks Spanish and Portuguese in addition to English, which has mattered to clients and families more times than he can count, especially when fear and unfamiliar courts are part of the conversation.
Schedule Your Free Consultation
If you are facing a criminal allegation in North Texas — state or federal, misdemeanor or felony — the consultation is free, and you will speak directly with Kent.
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