Why I became a Texas attorney.
When I was sixteen, I was in a wreck so violent that the passenger next to me was thrown out of the car. I broke my collarbone. Recovery took six months — six months of pain, missed school, and trying to feel normal again.
When I started talking to attorneys about settling my case, every one of them said the same thing: thirty-five percent. That felt wrong to me at sixteen, so I walked away from all of them and settled the case on my own.
I settled for $9,000.
A few years later, after I'd learned what cases like mine were actually worth, I did the math on what I should have made. The honest answer was somewhere north of $100,000. I had given up roughly nine out of every ten dollars I was owed because I didn't trust the system, didn't understand the math, and didn't have anyone on my side of the table.
That settlement is the reason I went to law school. It's the reason I built this practice. And it's the reason the insurance companies are not going to do to my clients what they did to me.
The record-clearing side of my work comes from the same place — different facts, same basic problem. I've watched too many people who beat their case in court turn around and still get crushed by an arrest that follows them on every background check. Too many of them paid thousands to general-practice attorneys for help with a procedural area of Texas law that has a right answer and a wrong answer, and not enough lawyers who handle it every day. So I made it half of my practice. Done right, it's a fixed price and a clean record — no surprises.
