Roger G. Jain & Associates, P.C.

Where the firm started

The firm opened in January 1996, and its start traces to one lawyer's move from accounting into law. Its founder, Roger G. Jain, earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Houston in 1987, then worked as a licensed CPA at PriceWaterhouse, where he managed corporate clients. He enrolled at Baylor Law School in 1990 and finished in 1993.

Jain worked as a criminal prosecutor for the Montgomery County Attorney's Office before he set up on his own. That courtroom start shaped the firm. As a reviewer, I read the CPA background as relevant too, since business disputes and probate both turn on close work with numbers. The founder's path runs through accounting, a law degree and criminal court, and that mix shows up in the range the firm now covers.

Focus and practice areas

The firm offers a full-service range in Texas. It lists nine main areas: civil litigation, business law, criminal defense, family law, probate, real estate law, expunctions, juvenile law and estate planning. One office that handles both civil claims and their defense gives clients a single point of contact across a case.

The named services fill in the picture. On the civil side, the firm handles auto accident matters, fraud claims, premises liability defense, business partner and contract disputes, deceptive trade practices, and construction and property disputes. On the criminal side, it handles DWI and drug crime cases along with burglary and theft charges. Family work covers divorce, child custody and support, and spousal support. The firm also handles expunctions, juvenile law, and probate along with probate litigation.

Two of those areas reward a short explanation. An expunction asks a Texas court to erase the records of an arrest or charge, and eligibility turns on how the case ended and how much time has passed. Probate litigation starts when heirs or creditors contest a will or the way an estate is administered, and it plays out in probate court. Keeping both in the same office means a client rarely has to hire out for the next step.

How the team is built

The site names seven attorneys: Roger G. Jain, Thomas H. Smith III, Crystal Walker, Renae Mundis, Ami Feltovich, Michelle Kornblith and Jacob Scholl. Three of them have full bios on the site, and those bios show a team drawn from mixed backgrounds. The training on the roster spans accounting, chemistry and military X-ray work, an unusual mix to find under one firm's name.

Attorneys the site profiles

Thomas H. Smith III grew up in Arlington, Texas. He graduated from Texas A&M University in 2002 with a degree in chemistry and a minor in mathematics. He then attended the University of Houston Law Center, where he was an Articles Editor for the Houston Journal of International Law. He joined the firm as a clerk in February 2004 and stayed on as an attorney after he graduated in 2005.

Crystal C. Walker grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Fayetteville State University in 2010. She then served four years in the United States Army as an X-ray technician and received an honorable discharge. Her military service and criminal justice degree add to a bench that already holds a former prosecutor and a former CPA.

Courtroom work and everyday filings

The firm describes its attorneys as trial lawyers. In civil litigation, that points to a willingness to carry a dispute through discovery, pretrial motions and, when a case calls for it, a hearing or trial. Many matters still settle before that stage, and the readiness to try a case can shape how the other side approaches talks. For a client weighing a business or injury dispute, that posture is useful to know early.

Much of what the firm lists is transactional or filing work. Estate planning, real estate closings and expunctions run mostly on documents and court filings, and they turn on accuracy. Family cases fall in between, since a custody or support dispute can settle by agreement or go before a judge. Handling both the quiet filings and the contested ones under one roof is part of what a full-service label means here.

Working across four Texas offices

The main office sits in Houston, and the firm keeps three more in Lufkin, Sugar Land and The Woodlands. Sugar Land and The Woodlands both sit among the suburbs around Houston, while Lufkin lies well to the north in East Texas. The firm says it serves clients across the Houston metro area and Sugar Land.

Four offices across that stretch of the state give clients several places to meet a lawyer in person. In my opinion, that spread fits a firm that handles everyday matters like divorce and expunctions and also disputes that reach trial.

What the record shows

The firm has run since 1996 under the lawyer whose name it carries. The founder pairs a CPA license and corporate accounting years with time as a county prosecutor. The wider team adds a former Army X-ray technician with a criminal justice degree and a law journal editor with a science background. The firm handles civil, criminal, family, probate and real estate matters, and it does so from four Texas offices with its main office in Houston. The firm also keeps pages on Facebook, X and LinkedIn.

More of the lawyers the record names

Beyond the founder and the two attorneys profiled above, the record names several more lawyers at the firm. Ami Feltovich earned a Juris Doctor from South Texas College of Law in 1997 and practices in Houston, where her work covers juvenile law, family law, divorce, criminal defense, DWI and personal injury. Michelle Kornblith earned her law degree from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University in 2016, and she worked with Lopez Law Group, PLLC before she came to the firm.

Renae Mundis practices as a litigation attorney out of the Houston office, and her matters cross criminal, civil, probate and family law. She takes on criminal defense trials, contested child custody disputes, commercial disputes and probate litigation. Her range mirrors the founder's own reach across the firm's main areas.

Jacob Scholl brings a record built in Colorado. He earned an economics degree from Metropolitan State University of Denver and a Juris Doctor from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in 2020. During law school he held four judicial clerkships at the Denver District Court and the Colorado Court of Appeals, and he served as an appellate student-counsel in the school's clinic. He runs the Law Office of Jacob Scholl and works here as an associate attorney, where his practice covers consumer protection, litigation, contracts and personal injury.

Depth behind the main practice areas

These attorneys thicken coverage in areas the firm already lists. Family law and criminal defense each appear in the work of more than one lawyer here, so a client facing a divorce or a DWI charge has a choice of counsel inside the same office. Personal injury sits with both Feltovich and Scholl, while probate work reaches Smith and Mundis. That overlap gives a client in one of these areas more than one attorney to turn to.

The training on this part of the roster reaches beyond Texas. One lawyer holds a Louisiana degree and another studied and clerked in Colorado, which sets them apart from colleagues who came up through Houston schools. For a client comparing lawyers, the practical read is that the firm can put a family, criminal, probate or injury matter in front of someone who works in that area day to day.