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Joe Grady Tuck is a 7th generation Bastrop resident who brings 50 years of legal experience as head of the largest law firm in the county. Joe Grady has represented 400 clients including government entities in suits against Asplundh Expert Tree Company, collecting many millions of dollars for victims of the 2011 Bastrop Complex Fire. Most recently, he collected $5 Mill for Bastrop County, the Bastrop & Smithville school districts and ESD No. 2.
As a young man, Joe Grady served two terms as the elected District Attorney of the 6 county 216th Judicial District of Texas. At the time of his election in 1972,at the age of 26, Joe Grady was the youngest elected prosecutor in the country, and the State's only Republican DA. Prior to his election, he worked on the staff of both Republican Parties of Texas and Colorado, was appointed to a post in the Nixon Administration in Washington, D.C., and later worked for Republican Congressman Bill Archer of Houston and former Texas Governor John Connally.
Joe has also taught criminal justice at Schreiner University in Kerrville, and taught Employment Law at the graduate school of Chapman University, in California. Joe served on the Board of the Boy's & Girls Club of Bastrop, was a founding member of the Cedar Creek Rotary Club, and currently serves on the board of trustees for the Bastrop Historical Society.
Joe Grady Tuck was voted as the "Best Attorney in Bastrop County" in the 2019 Bastrop Advertiser/Smithville Times Best of Bastrop Reader's Choice.
Elizabeth Beyer became managing partner at Tuck Law Group and Chicago Title in 2021. She and her family have lived and served in Bastrop County for more than 25 years, after moving from her hometown of San Antonio. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and she returned to San Antonio to complete law school at St. Mary’s University.
Elizabeth has worked with Joe Grady Tuck since 2018 after several years of practice in Austin. In law school she served as a managing editor and published law review author at St. Mary’s, where she was also on the Dean’s list and received the Pro Bono Service award. She currently serves as a Special Commissioner for condemnation proceedings in Bastrop County.