Jon is originally from the Fort Worth area. He graduated from Texas Tech University’s Rawls College of Business and then attended the Texas Tech School of Law. In law school, Jon participated in many practice court activities and served as an editor on two journals, the Texas Tech Law Review and the Estate Planning & Community Property Journal. In his third year of law school, Jon had the opportunity to argue a real case before one of the United States Circuit Courts, the level of court just below the U.S. Supreme Court.
After serving as a law clerk to one of the Lubbock District Courts, Jon worked as a law clerk with the firm and then went on to work as an attorney in the firm’s litigation department for three years. After a two-and-a-half-year absence during which he had his own law firm and relocated to Austin, he rejoined the firm to serve as managing attorney for its Austin office.
Jon has focused his entire career on representing people and families who have suffered catastrophic injuries or wrongful deaths. He prides himself on his ability to understand and explain to juries the true harm caused by injuries and the ways in which an injury can drastically alter a person’s life.
Over the years, Jon has represented people in serious workplace injuries, commercial trucking cases, significant motor vehicle and motorcycle crashes, pipeline explosions, premises liability claims, pedestrian accidents, and various other situations. His aggressive style has led to successful outcomes in settlements and trials for hundreds of clients.
Super Lawyers selected Jon as a Texas Rising Star since 2016, a Top 100 Rising Star for 2022, and in 2022, his first year of eligibility, Jon was selected as a Texas Super Lawyer; he has been selected every year since. The National Trial Lawyers chose him as a Top 40 Under 40 starting in 2016 until he was no longer eligible by age, and he was selected for the Top 100 Personal Injury Attorneys by the National Trial Lawyers. In 2016, he was also named to the Nation’s Top One Percent by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel, which includes less than 1% of practicing attorneys in the United States. In addition to his legal practice, Jon is active with the Texas Trial Lawyers Association (TTLA), an organization dedicated to protecting the rights of people to seek justice in the Texas court system. He serves on the Board of Directors for TTLA, previously served as Chair of the TTLA Advocates Board for 2019, and founded TTLA LEAD, the TTLA Leadership Academy. He is also currently a member of the Executive Committee for the Capital Area Trial Lawyers Association (CATLA).
Jon continues to hone his trial skills through participation in elite trial training programs, including Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyer’s College, trial consultant Sari De La Motte’s H2H Crew, and TTLA’s Trial Advocacy College of Texas.
In April of 2023, Jon and his co-counsels obtained the largest wrongful death verdict in the United States in 2023 and the second largest plaintiff’s jury verdict in Texas, according to TopVerdict.com—an $860 million verdict in the case Williams et al. v. Greystar Development & Construction, LP, et al. in Dallas County.
Jon is licensed to practice in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado. He is also admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Northern District of Texas and the United States District Courts for the District of New Mexico.
Outside of the practice of law, Jon enjoys spending time with his wife, Heather, and their two boys. They enjoy being outside, fly fishing, spending time on or near water whenever they can get it, exploring, and playing with their two dogs—a Goldendoodle named Duke and an Australian Shepherd named Lucy.