Chad Inderman

For anyone comparing Austin injury lawyers, one figure frames Chad Inderman’s practice: acting as lead counsel, he has recovered well over $500 million for his clients through jury verdicts and settlements. He is a senior partner at Glasheen, Valles & Inderman Injury Lawyers and manages the firm’s entire litigation operation, which means the largest and most difficult cases in the office run through him.

Inderman’s caseload centers on catastrophic harm. He has handled serious injury and death claims arising from nearly every type of oilfield work across the Permian Basin, and he regularly litigates 18-wheeler wrecks, commercial motor vehicle crashes, and industrial workplace injuries. His method is deliberately trial-driven: instead of positioning files for a quick payout, he pushes cases toward the courtroom and keeps pushing until the defense gives up or faces a jury. Licensed in both Texas and New Mexico, he also takes major cases throughout the United States — and because he is a multi-engine, instrument-rated pilot, he flies the firm’s airplane to wherever a case needs him, on his own schedule.

His story is thoroughly Texan. Raised in rural Central Texas, he graduated from Texas A&M University and then earned his law degree with honors from Texas Tech University School of Law, joining the firm straight out of school and building his entire career there. The recognition has stacked up alongside the recoveries: Thomson Reuters has named him a Texas Super Lawyer every year since 2021 — an honor extended to only five percent of the state’s attorneys — after seven consecutive years as a Texas Rising Star from 2012 through 2019, a list limited to under 2.5 percent of Texas lawyers. He has also held Martindale-Hubbell’s AV Preeminent rating, the highest available for ability and ethics, for more than a decade.

What clients notice, though, usually is not the resume. Inderman is known for connecting with the people he represents on a genuinely human level, often remaining friends with clients long after their cases close. His stated goal in every matter is straightforward: take care of people in their worst moment, and make powerful companies answer fully for the harm they caused. He describes himself as a fighter for the underdog, and his case history backs it up. Away from the office, he lives on the family farm with his wife, Natalie, and their three boys.

Inderman is the right match for oilfield workers injured in the Permian Basin, families dealing with death or catastrophic injury from 18-wheeler and commercial vehicle crashes, and workers hurt in industrial settings — particularly anyone up against a well-funded corporate defendant that expects to outlast them. The firm works on contingency with a free consultation, so injured clients owe nothing unless he wins.