About our Houston team: three lawyers who once worked for insurers

The injury accident lawyers in our Houston office learned the claims business from the inside, at insurance companies and insurance defense firms. Today they use that training for people hurt in Houston crashes and falls. This page introduces them and the firm behind this site.

Injury Accident Lawyer Houston is published by the Houston office of LAWBOSS – Harris, Nelsen & Uvalle, PLLC, a Texas personal injury firm. Everything on this page about our people comes from the firm’s own attorney biographies and from the State Bar of Texas, and nothing here describes a past case or its outcome.

A firm started by someone who worked for insurers

LAWBOSS was started by Michael Uvalle, who worked for several of the largest insurance companies in Texas before he practiced law. His Texas license dates to 2010, according to the State Bar. He built the firm around a simple idea: a lawyer who has sat where the adjuster sits can see the next move coming.

That idea shaped who joined. Of the firm’s seven attorneys, five came from the insurance side, as adjusters, claim professionals or lawyers who defended insurers and their customers. Inside the firm, that background goes by the name Insurance Insider Advantage. In plain terms, when an insurer’s adjuster calls you a day after a wreck, the people answering for you know the script, because several of them once used it.

LAWBOSS keeps three Texas offices: Dallas, the principal one, plus Houston and San Antonio. This website belongs to the Houston office, and calls and forms sent from it go to the Houston team.

Jonathan Harris

Jonathan Harris is a Partner Attorney and the firm’s Managing Attorney of Litigation. He earned his law degree at the University of Houston in 1998, and the State Bar of Texas lists his license date as November 6, 1998. For more than a decade he was a senior trial attorney for a major automobile insurance company, trying cases for the insurer and learning how its claim files were built and defended.

He joined LAWBOSS in 2017 and now leads its litigation, the part of a case that moves from negotiation into a lawsuit and, when needed, toward trial. When an insurer refuses to deal fairly on a Houston claim, his team decides how the suit is filed and how it is pushed forward.

Howard Hill

Howard Hill is a Litigation Attorney who, according to the firm’s own biography, is based in Houston. He also earned his law degree at the University of Houston in 1998 and was licensed in Texas that November. His practice spans more than 23 years of trial work in complex civil matters.

For over 20 of those years he worked with two of the nation’s largest auto and commercial insurance carriers. That background covers both private car policies and the commercial coverage that sits behind delivery vans, company pickups and 18-wheelers. Commercial policies come with their own claim teams and their own habits, and he has seen those habits up close.

Ian Nelsen

Ian Nelsen is a Partner Attorney. He started as an insurance adjuster, the person who investigates a claim and puts a number on it for the company, and then worked as an insurance defense attorney. He knows how an adjuster reads a claim file from the inside.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Baylor University and a master’s degree from Texas A&M University-Commerce, and he earned his law degree at South Texas College of Law, where he graduated third in his class. He was licensed in Texas on May 2, 2016, and joined LAWBOSS the same year.

What insurance-side training changes for you

An adjuster’s first job after a crash is to protect the company’s money. That usually means asking for a recorded statement early, looking for any reason to put part of the blame on you, and checking your medical records for gaps. Our Houston lawyers have been on the other end of those steps, so they prepare you for them before they happen. Our page on insurance tactics after an accident walks through each one.

• We read a claim file the way an adjuster reads it, looking for what the company will argue before it argues it.
• We keep evidence from disappearing, from crash reports to truck records and store video.
• We handle the calls with the insurers, so you are not explaining your injuries to someone paid to question them.
• If talks stall, the same team that built the claim can take it to court under Jonathan Harris’s litigation group.

Our Houston office by Memorial Park

The Houston office is at 5300 Memorial Dr Ste 810, Houston, TX 77007, on Memorial Drive by Memorial Park, just west of downtown. From there our attorneys handle claims across Harris County and the towns around it; see the areas we serve for the list. The phones are answered around the clock, every day of the year.

Jonathan Harris is the attorney responsible for the content of this website, and his primary practice location is Houston, at the Memorial Drive office.

How we are paid

Your first conversation with us is free. No Fees or Costs Unless We Win: LAWBOSS advances the case costs as your claim is built, and if no money is recovered for you, you owe us no fee and no case costs. We explain the written agreement in full before you sign anything, and you decide whether to hire us.

If you were hurt in a wreck or a fall, you can also look at the accident cases we take, read the answers to common questions or reach us through the contact page.