Jim Willi is a long-time firearms owner, competitive shooter, collector, and instructor. He is a Benefactor Member of the National Rifle Association (NRA), a Certified NRA Instructor in Rifle, Pistol, Shotgun, Home Firearm Safety, and Personal Protection in the Home, a NRA Range Safety Officer, a Patron Member of the the Texas State Rifle Association, a Life Member of the National Skeet Shooting Association, a Life Member of the Texas State Skeet Shooters Association, the Texas C-Class High-Over-All Skeet Champion in 2003, a Life Member of the Capitol City Trap & Skeet Club in Austin, Texas, an Eagle Scout, an Adult Leader in the Boy Scouts of America, Capitol Area Council, and a Merit Badge Counselor for Rifle Shooting and Shotgun Shooting merit badges, as well as many others.
Mr. Willi has over 17 years of civil, commercial, and intellectual property litigation and appellate experience, as well as considerable experience with business entity formation, NFA gun trusts, wills, trusts, estate planning, business transactions, contracts, intellectual property prosecution and licensing, and real property transactions. He has represented clients at all levels of federal courts including District Courts, Courts of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court, and at all levels of Texas courts. He is licensed to practice law in Texas and Colorado, registered to practice law in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas. Mr. Willi is a member of the College of the State Bar of Texas and the Austin Bar Association. Before practicing law, he was an electrical engineer from 1986 to 1996 involved in system operations and planning of electrical power distribution and transmission systems at Houston Lighting & Power Company. Mr. Willi has been a Licensed Professional Engineer in Texas since 1990.
Mr. Willi earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1985, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Houston in 1989, a Doctor of Jurisprudence with Honors from South Texas College of Law in 1995, and a Master of Laws in Intellectual Property and Information Law from the University of Houston Law Center in 2005.
Mr. Willi practices law with his wife, Tracy J. Willi, who has been practicing law since 1992 and has been recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer by her attorney peers every year since 2009. Tracy and Jim Willi have four sons. Tracy was also a Varsity Cheerleader at the University of Texas at Austin from 1985 to 1989.
Jim Willi is a native Houstonian, 6th generation Texan, and a proud descendant of hard-working German, English, Irish, Swiss, and Czech pioneers who settled in Texas during the 1800s.