Daniella Deseta Lyttle - Attorney and Managing Partner

Daniella Deseta Lyttle is an award-winning attorney that serves as the Managing Partner and Senior Attorney at Lyttle Law Firm, PLLC. Her practice areas include family law litigation and mediation, immigration law, and wills & estates. Ms. Lyttle earned a J.D. with honors from The Michigan State University College of Law where she graduated in the top ten percent of her class. She also has a B.A. with honors and distinction in Psychology and Gerontology from The University of South Florida.

Ms. Lyttle has received multiple awards, which include the prestigious 2018 and 2019 Super Lawyers award. Superlawyers recognizes no more than 2.5 percent of attorneys in the state of Texas. Ms. Lyttle is also a National Advocates Top 100 Lawyers award recipient, an Austin Monthly Top Attorney award recipient, and has been featured in ATX Women to Watch.

Prior to beginning her legal career, Ms. Lyttle was an enlisted soldier in the U.S. Army where she was trained as an Infantry Combat Medic and a Human Resource Specialist. She served in the U.S. Army from 1998 to 2004. After graduating from undergraduate school, Ms. Lyttle became one of the youngest Account Execute hires in the medical device field where she became an expert in highly specialized implantable cardiac pacing leads, venous access systems, and diagnostic catheters.

Ms. Lyttle began her legal career as a law clerk in the Texas Attorney General’s office (Tort Litigation Division). She was also a law clerk at Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid, where she handled a variety of family law cases and VAWA cases. Ms. Lyttle was also one of the first Court Visitors (Volunteer Program) in Travis County, serving the Travis County Probate Court and the Honorable Guy Herman where she assisted with Guardianship matters filed in Travis County. Prior to opening The Lyttle Law Firm in the fall of 2010, Ms. Lyttle was an associate at a small law firm in North Austin where she practiced family law and immigration.

Ms. Lyttle is fluent in both Spanish and Portuguese and is conversational in Italian.