About Us

Simply put, we produce fair solutions to contentious issues. T. Gabe Houston is the founding member of The Trial Lab Corporation (Formerly Houston Law of California, PC), a law firm devoted to enthusiastically representing aviation-related disputes as well as compassionately helping injured people. In personal injury matters, our job is to help injured people realize their brighter futures. The Trial Lab helps innocent injured victims who have been hurt due to the carelessness of others. Our clients have suffered a catastrophic personal injury, typically by defective products, dangerous properties, or other negligent people, or have been injured on an airline or by a doctor or hospital. The Trial Lab also represents clients in cases involving Qui Tam/Whistleblower matters. T. Gabe Houston has complex trial, arbitration, mediation, and negotiation experience. The Trial Lab and its trial attorneys have successfully tried and arbitrated multiple complex cases to verdicts in the areas of aviation litigation, product liability actions, personal injury, medical malpractice, and as well as defending wrongly charged or accused criminal defendants. The Trial Lab has also represented pilots against regulatory agencies such as the FAA and NTSB as well as representing clients in securities and commodities regulatory and administrative litigation.

T. Gabe Houston and Caroline Blanco originally founded the law firm Houston and Blanco in 2008. Gabe and Caroline married, and Caroline left the practice of law to be the bedrock of a growing household. Gabe continued the practice as Houston Law of California. In 2012 Gabe suspended the solo practice when he was recruited to join a prominent medical malpractice firm where he used his trial knowledge and litigation experience to represent innocent victims of medical malpractice in suits against negligent physicians and health care providers. In 2018, Gabe returned to solo practice to stay focused on helping injured victims of catastrophic personal injury, defective products, dangerous premises, and airline injuries. Gabe is a long-time member of Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC) and the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association (OCTLA). Gabe was a long-time member of the Board of Directors of OCTLA and was on the Executive Committee where he served as Parliamentarian through First Vice President before pivoting to bi-coastal trial practice.

Gabe is a commercial pilot (fixed wing and helicopter) and he clerked for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) while in law school. As a long-time private and commercial pilot, he is also a panel attorney for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) Legal Services Plan (LSP). Gabe’s enthusiasm for aviation inspires him to help pilots, aircraft owners, Fixed Base Operators (FBOs), and any other aviation-related business or individual with any type of aviation-related dispute, whether it involves commercial or business litigation, purchase or sales transactions, tax issues, product defect or personal injury in an aviation-related incident. Gabe is also an owner and operator of a single pilot FAA Part 135 on-demand air carrier airline certified to fly passengers and cargo on demand throughout the united states. He is proficient in Spanish, both written and verbal.