The Patterson Law Group Podcast
Driving Change with
Travis Patterson
Where legal expertise meets real-world wisdom.
Travis Patterson — Fort Worth personal injury attorney and managing partner of Patterson Law Group — sits down with experts, advocates, and friends to tackle the real-life questions behind the legal system. From hidden dangers your kids face every day to what insurance companies don't want you to know.
15 episodes across 2 seasons.
About the Show
Where curiosity meets expertise.
Do you ever wonder why we accept certain "truths" about safety, law, and life without question?
Travis Patterson does. He's a Fort Worth personal injury attorney who has spent his career asking the hard questions — the ones insurance companies, automakers, and high-volume law firms would rather you didn't. On Driving Change, Travis sits down with experts, advocates, and friends to challenge conventional thinking on the topics that actually affect your daily life: child safety, distracted driving, parenting, insurance, mentorship, and the legal system itself.
This isn't a lawyer podcast where someone reads case law into a microphone. It's a show for parents wondering whether their kids' trampoline park is actually safe, drivers who want to know what their insurance policy really covers, business owners who want to bring their teams together, and anyone who has ever looked at the way things are done and thought, there has to be a better way.
Travis isn't here to preach or hand you easy answers. He's here to ask better questions — and to equip you with the practical, actionable insights that help you protect your family, navigate complex situations, and drive positive change in your own community. So tune in, buckle up, and join Travis on the journey.
Your Host
Travis Patterson
Managing Partner at Patterson Law Group, Fort Worth. Travis founded PLG with his wife Anna and his father Mike on a single belief: the personal injury law space had lost its way, and someone had to reclaim it. He hosts Driving Change because the same hard questions that make him a better lawyer make for better conversations off the clock too.
Read Travis's full bio →Latest Episode
Closing the Vehicle Safety Gap: Simple Steps to Protect Your Family in a Car Crash
The country's leading crashworthiness attorney has his own crash lab. What he found about third-row SUVs should alarm every parent.
Featuring: Todd Tracy
Todd Tracy is a Dallas attorney with a degree in applied physics who has spent 30-plus years crashing vehicles to expose design defects that kill people. He explains seatback failure, what a sled test is, why third-row SUVs with less than four feet of trunk space are potentially deadly in rear-end crashes, and the simple weekly habit that could save your child's life.
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Season 2
4 episodes
Closing the Vehicle Safety Gap: Simple Steps to Protect Your Family in a Car Crash
Todd Tracy is a Dallas attorney with a degree in applied physics who has spent 30-plus years crashing vehicles to expose design defects that kill people. He explains seatback failure, what a sled test is, why third-row SUVs with less than four feet of trunk space are potentially deadly in rear-end crashes, and the simple weekly habit that could save your child's life.
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Car Insurance 101: 3 Tips Every Driver Needs to Know
PLG's head of litigation Tennessee Walker-Wright joins Travis for a practical breakdown of car insurance in Texas. They explain what 'full coverage' actually means (almost nothing), walk through the three coverages PLG attorneys carry on their own vehicles — UIM, umbrella with a UIM rider, and PIP — and explain why roughly 20% of Texas drivers are completely uninsured and what that means for your family if one of them hits you.
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Rethinking E-Bikes: The Hidden Dangers for Our Kids
Travis goes solo to break down the explosive rise in pediatric e-bike and e-scooter injuries — including Penn State pediatric hospital data showing more kids injured in 2025 than in the prior three years combined. He walks through the Texas regulatory gap, explains exactly why UIM insurance almost certainly won't cover an e-bike crash, and lays out what collective action by parents in the same neighborhood actually looks like.
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Behind the Games: Protecting Children from Online Predators
Ty Bowden is the director of MACE — Men Against Sexual Exploitation — a program of The NET, a Tarrant County anti-trafficking organization. He and Travis break down how online video games like Roblox, Minecraft, and Fortnite have become primary points of contact for child exploitation, what the Louisiana attorney general's lawsuit against Roblox revealed about internal company decisions, and how parents can protect their kids without banning screens entirely.
Listen →Season 1
11 episodes
The Silent Danger: Water Safety with ISR Expert Kelsey Strieby
Kelsey Strieby is an Infant Swimming Resource (ISR) instructor who teaches babies as young as six months to roll onto their backs and float until help arrives. Recorded during Water Safety Awareness Month, she and Travis walk through why drowning is called the silent killer, what the layers of protection actually look like, and why the color of your child's swimsuit could be the difference between a rescue and a tragedy.
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Will AI Replace Lawyers? What Lawyers — and Everyone — Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence
Jim Zadeh practiced law in Fort Worth for decades, and now his entire firm is required to use Claude for any task that would otherwise take more than an hour. He and Travis dig into what AI can do for law firms today, where lawyers are still way behind the curve, what AI cannot replace, and why clients should start asking their attorneys how they're using it.
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Mentorship That Matters: Transforming Futures with Big Brothers Big Sisters
Recorded live at a charity golf tournament at Rockwood Golf Course in Fort Worth, Travis sits down with Ozzie, president of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tarrant County, for the podcast's first ever outdoor remote episode. Ozzie — an engineer turned nonprofit leader — breaks down what one-to-one mentorship actually does for kids, what the post-COVID recovery looks like for the organization, and why giving your time matters as much as writing a check.
Listen →Law Talk: The Texas Legislation That Could Make Our Roads More Dangerous
Texas already ranks number one in the country for large truck crashes — every year for the last eight years. Now there are bills moving through the Texas Legislature that would make it harder for juries to hear the full story when trucking companies cut corners and people die. Travis and veteran trial lawyer Wade Barrow explain what's in the bills, why they matter, and what everyday Texans can do before it's too late.
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Permission to Say No: Colt McCoy's Surprising Youth Sports Philosophy
Colt McCoy quarterbacked in the NFL for 14 seasons, but when he was done, he came home to Fort Worth with a very different perspective on how kids should experience sports. He and Travis — fishing buddies since law school days in Austin — have a candid conversation about early specialization, the pressure on coaches and parents, and why evidence from NFL locker rooms says multi-sport, late-starting kids have better careers. Colt gives parents explicit permission to slow down.
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Rethinking Health with Taylor Dukes
Taylor Dukes is a Fort Worth functional medicine nurse practitioner who got seriously ill at 21, cycled through specialists without answers, and finally healed herself by attacking root causes instead of symptoms. Years later she was diagnosed with a grade-three brain tumor — and brought the same integrative approach to her own cancer fight, shrinking the tumor by half before surgery. She and Travis talk honestly about what conventional medicine gets right, where it fails, and what the data says about chronic illness in America.
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When Lawyers Break the Rules: Protect Yourself from Ambulance Chasers
Tom Carse is a Texas personal injury lawyer who stumbled into barratry enforcement and has made it a mission. Joined by PLG's head of litigation Tennessee Walker-Wright, he and Travis explain how digital ambulance chasing works in 2024, why out-of-state settlement mills are flooding into Texas, and what to do if you or your family gets targeted after a crash.
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Beyond the Game: The Fight for Safer Football and Accountability
Vinny Sicily is a Fort Worth commercial litigator who has represented one of the largest groups of former NCAA football players in the massive federal multidistrict litigation pending in Chicago. He and Travis dig into what a concussion actually is, why subconcussive hits may be even more dangerous than the ones that knock players out, and what the NFL's own locker room data reveals about single-sport specialization and when kids should start playing contact sports.
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Reclaiming Childhood: The Truth About Screens, Social Media, and Your Kids
John and Elizabeth Baton run a parent-education movement focused on what the data actually shows about smartphones and social media in children's lives. Travis joins them for an honest conversation about the mental health crisis unfolding in real time — the anxiety spike, the sleep destruction, the loss of childhood development — and what parents can actually do about it when every other family on the block is already handing their kid a phone.
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It's About Time We Focused on Distracted Driving
Joel Feldman is a forty-year personal injury lawyer whose daughter Casey was killed by a distracted driver in 2009. Since then he has built End Distracted Driving (EndDD.org) into a national organization that has reached over 535,000 students with a science-backed presentation. He and Travis dig into why distracted driving kills more than 10,000 Americans a year — far more than official statistics show — and what it actually takes to change driver behavior at a cultural level.
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Trampoline Parks: The Hidden Risks You Need to Know
David Chazen is a New Jersey personal injury lawyer who has handled close to 150 trampoline park injury cases across the country. He and Travis break down exactly why these facilities are more dangerous than they look — from the brutal physics of their high-tension trampolines to rampant understaffing and foam pits that violate industry standards. They also tackle the waiver question head-on: that document you signed at the front desk may not be worth the paper it's printed on.
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