Guiding businesses in solving their high-stakes problems at the TEXAS CAPITOL.
ABOUT
Royce Poinsett Principal
Royce Poinsett is an attorney and lobbyist who guides businesses in solving their high-stakes problems at the Texas Capitol. He is principal at Poinsett PLLC.
Royce has been recognized as a Top 10 Texas Lobbyist by Texas Scorecard, as a Top 15 Texas Lobbyist by Capitol Inside and as one of “20 Politically-Minded People to Know” by the Austin Business Journal.
He has guided many prominent companies and associations at the Texas Capitol, including ExxonMobil, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Netflix, Walmart, Pew Charitable Trusts, Kinder Morgan, the Texas Oil & Gas Association and the Texas Veterinary Medical Association.
Royce first developed his experience and relationships inside government, while serving as a policy advisor and legal counselor to Texas political leaders for over two decades. Royce eventually served as a senior advisor and legal counsel to the Texas Governor and then to the Speaker of the Texas House, counseling the state’s leadership in resolving high-profile, complicated disputes with businesses and other governments.
Following his government service, Royce joined the prominent global law firm Baker Botts and began lobbying at the Texas Capitol for leading corporations. Royce founded the Poinsett firm in 2018 to further focus on his specialized niche of legal and lobby work.
Royce is a seventh-generation Texan from Dallas, where he attended St. Mark’s School of Texas. Royce is also a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, and of the London School of Economics. He received his law degree from The University of Texas School of Law, where he was a member of the Texas Law Review.
Royce is a past chair of the Legislative and Campaign Law Section of the State Bar of Texas. He is a director of The Austin Club, an alumnus of the Texas Lyceum and a past president of the board of directors of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Texas. Royce and his family are members of Covenant Presbyterian Church of Austin.
