Lisa Tsai is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Reid Collins & Tsai. Tsai has represented plaintiffs in a wide variety of complex business disputes, including financial fraud cases, professional liability actions, legal malpractice actions, fiduciary duty litigation, intellectual property litigation, and other corporate malfeasance and business tort disputes, obtaining hundreds of millions of dollars in recoveries for her clients.
Following a lengthy jury trial, Tsai obtained a Top 50 Verdict in the United States against global investment bank Credit Suisse for fraud, which was affirmed after several rounds of appeals. Among her many industry accolades, Tsai has been named a Lawdragon Legend for being selected more than ten times to the Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America.
Tsai is active in a variety of professional and community organizations, including having served as Chair of the State Bar of Texas Asian Pacific Interest Section, President of the Austin Asian American Bar Association, Chair of the Austin Bar Association Bench Bar Committee, Vice Chair of the City of Austin Ethics Review Commission, and Board Secretary of the Texas Fair Defense Project. Tsai also devotes time to her alma mater law school, serving on the Board of Trustees of The University of Texas Law School Foundation, serving on the Board of the Texas Law Review Association, and mentoring first-year law students.
Lawdragon Honors
Tsai is a recipient of the Justice David Wellington Chew Award, the highest honor bestowed by the State Bar of Texas Asian Pacific Interest Section, which recognizes the outstanding achievements, commitment, and leadership of a lawyer who has paved the way for the advancement of other APA attorneys. Tsai also has been honored as a Pathfinder by the Travis County Women Lawyers’ Association and received the Judge Suzanne Covington Pro Bono Service Award for her legal work on behalf of domestic violence victims.
Tsai received her J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law and was elected to the Order of the Coif upon graduation. Lisa was a member of the Texas Law Review, during which time she published her student note. Following law school, Tsai served as a judicial law clerk in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, and a litigation associate at Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles. Lisa received her A.B. in Politics, with Highest Honors, from Princeton University.
Tsai is licensed to practice law in both Texas and California. She is admitted to the State Bar of Texas, the State Bar of California, the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas, the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of California, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
