Steve Rodgers has maintained a trial law practice with the firm of Rodgers, Miller & Rodriguez, PC for over 40 years. He is named in the “Bar Register of Preeminent Attorneys” as AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell® the highest possible for competency and ethics, and has maintained it for over three decades. He has also been recognized for over thirty (35) years as “Board Certified - Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization” handling cases both in courts and in administrative forums. In 2004, the prestigious American Board of Trial Advocates invited Rodgers to serve as a Charter Member of the organization in the Brazos Valley. He has served locally as President and as the National Board representative.

Rodgers also serves as a faculty member at Texas A&M University. He is appointed to the School of Architecture - Department of Construction Science, delivering courses in construction law, ethics and risk management. His faculty work began in 2007. From 2014 to 2022 Rodgers lived each Spring in London, England working with his students as the International Study and Internship Coordinator. In 2019 he was awarded the “Distinguished Achievement Award-College Level” for teaching by the Texas A&M Association of Former Students.

His litigation and appeals practice includes:

• Products liability
• Insurance defense in all matters
• Personal injury
• Oil and gas
• Construction disputes
• Probate litigation

His representative clients include AIG, British Petroleum, Amoco Pipeline Co., Monsanto Company, Mid-Continent Insurance Co., Clayton Williams Energy, Inc., CBL Properties, Gray Communications and Steve Tucker.

Representative results:

• Jury verdict for oil operator on negligence, DTPA and product liability claims against casing manufacturers after a downhole casing separation leading to casing ejection. The jury awarded the oil operator all of its actual damages and three times the amount of attorney fees requested.
• Jury verdict for defense of one of world’s largest public oil companies in the trial of a wrongful death claim.
• Jury verdict for homeowners in a major construction defect case against residential homebuilder.
• Significant appellate reversal and rendition in favor of defendant oil company after a plaintiff's jury verdict in complex oil and gas litigation.
• Defense judgment in favor of engineer in construction defect claim by property owners.
• Substantial settlement in favor of homeowners' association to cover all costs of remediating and re-engineering a flooding problem caused by an adjacent subdivision development.
• Reimbursement of all defense attorney's fees on behalf of a 'non-manufacturing seller' in a products liability case when the manufacturer refused to indemnify.
• Co-counsel for defendants in numerous class action cases in Central Texas including claims involving genetically altered seed, royalty owner disputes over payments for gas production and computer component defects.