Helen Liggett

Helen Liggett has worked closely with clients and handled cases in litigation for almost her entire legal career of over 30 years. She focuses her practice on criminal defense.

She has also actively served her beloved Lubbock community during this time as well. Helen’s clients have come to rely on her for her compassion, dependability, and experience. At Liggett Law Group, Helen is proud to further the work of Dallas attorney Brittany K. Barnett’s Buried Alive Project, demolishing life without parole sentences handed down under federal drug laws.

Helen graduated from Texas A&M University on a full scholarship with a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature, cum laude, in 1987, where she was selected as a President’s Endowed Scholar and a National Merit Scholar. She earned her law degree on a full scholarship from Southern Methodist University School of Law in 1990. During law school, she was awarded the American Jurisprudence Awards (highest grade in her class) in Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Law and was selected for membership in the invitation-only group Order of Barristers. She was invited to participate in the Southwestern Law Journal and the Journal of Air Law and Commerce. Helen is licensed to practice in all Texas state courts, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

During law school, Helen was chosen to work for internationally prestigious law firms – including Andrews & Kurth; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; and, Fulbright & Jaworski – where she performed legal research and wrote memoranda on numerous legal issues. After law school, Helen worked as a commercial litigation attorney with Fulbright & Jaworski before joining the Lubbock County District Attorney’s Office as an Assistant District Attorney. After prosecuting for Lubbock County for 1.5 years, Helen was one of the two founding lawyers of the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the Lubbock, San Angelo, and Abilene Divisions of the Northern District of Texas. She still holds the record for most trial wins in that office. She has represented defendants in trial and on appeal in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Helen maintains a Distinguished Rating with legal industry rating stalwart Martindale-Hubbell. She also recently won the “Angry Cat” award from the Federal Public Defender’s Office in the Northern District of Texas (2020).

Helen is a member of the Bar Association of the Fifth Circuit, Texas Bar Foundation (Fellow), the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the Lubbock County Criminal Defense Association, the State Bar of Texas, and Mensa. Additionally, Helen serves as a Lay Eucharist Minister at St. Paul’s on the Plains Episcopal Church, is on the reading staff at the West Texas Literary Review, is a volunteer reader at Guadalupe Early Learning Center for Literacy Lubbock and is on the board of Ballet Lubbock.