Insurance carriers keep a list of which firms take a case to a jury and which ones fold at mediation. That list is the whole negotiation.
Blackburn Law · Est. 1998Volume firms run on settlement math. They need every file closed inside ninety days to make the model work. We take fewer cases so each one can survive a trial calendar.
Your case is not sold to another firm for a percentage. The lawyer who signs you is the lawyer who stands up at counsel table.
Experts retained early. Accident reconstruction from day one. Carriers can see the file we are building, which is why most of them pay before they have to face it.
Catastrophic loss, industrial injury, and death cases across Texas. If it is going to end in front of a jury, it belongs here.
Federal carrier regulations, black box data, and logbook discovery. The evidence disappears in weeks, so we move in days.
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Spinal cord, traumatic brain, amputation, and burn cases where the number has to carry a lifetime of care.
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Survival and wrongful death actions for families. Handled quietly, tried aggressively.
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Surgical error, misdiagnosis, and birth injury, prosecuted under Chapter 74 with expert reports built to survive challenge.
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Plant explosions, chemical exposure, and contractor injury along the Gulf Coast petrochemical corridor.
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Design defect and failure-to-warn claims against manufacturers who priced the risk and shipped anyway.
Explore →He was rear-ended by an 18-wheeler on I-45 four hours ago and he is deciding who to call from a hospital bed. Every other injury firm in Houston sends him to voicemail. Press play and hear what happens at yours, then switch the call to Spanish and hear it again.
More than a third of Houston speaks Spanish at home, and those calls go to voicemail everywhere else. The desk hears the language and switches on its own. It takes the facts down and routes the matter to a lawyer. It does not qualify the case, sign anyone, or give legal advice.
You will know where your case stands at every stage. No portal password, no voicemail loop.
Forty-five minutes with an attorney, not an intake screener. You leave knowing whether you have a case and what it is worth.
Evidence preservation letters go out the same week. Reconstruction, medical review, and experts retained before we file.
Suit filed, depositions taken, defenses tested. This is where carriers learn which kind of firm they are dealing with.
Most cases resolve once the file is trial-ready. The ones that do not, we try. You decide which, every time.
Three partners. Every case carries one of them from signature to verdict.
Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law. Sixty-one first-chair jury trials across Harris, Galveston, and Brazoria counties.
Former defense counsel for two national motor carriers. She knows what the other side is told to argue before they argue it.
Chemical engineer before he was a lawyer. Reads a plant incident report the way the operator wrote it.
Two firms turned me down before I called Blackburn. Marcus took the meeting himself and told me exactly why the others passed. Then he took the case.
The carrier offered us enough to cover the funeral. Danielle asked for a trial date instead. Eleven months later the number was not close to the same.
Andre understood the unit better than the plant safety manager did. Watching that deposition is when I knew we were going to be fine.
Everything above this line is a working build, not a mockup. The site, the photography direction, and the booking concierge in the corner, deployed on your domain and trained on your practice areas, your intake questions, and the way your firm actually talks.