Jim Hund

Most injury firms have trial lawyers. Few have a lawyer whose job is to think about every procedural turn where a case can be won or lost — including what happens after the verdict. That is the role Jim Hund fills at Glasheen, Valles & Inderman Injury Lawyers, where he serves in an of-counsel capacity after closing out a trial practice that ran nearly four decades. For an Austin injury victim comparing firms, Hund’s presence signals something specific: this firm builds cases designed to hold up under appellate scrutiny.

Hund spent his career trying complicated civil cases, and he has acted as lead appellate counsel in close to 100 appeals — a volume of appellate work few Texas injury lawyers can match. Today he applies that experience to the firm’s most difficult matters, the catastrophic injury cases where the stakes are highest and the defense will contest every ruling. When a family’s future rides on the outcome, having a lawyer who understands how appellate courts think is not a luxury.

His credentials run deep. Hund attended Texas Christian University, where he played basketball, then graduated cum laude from Baylor Law School, serving as an associate editor of the Law Review and a member of the Board of Barristers. His peers have recognized him consistently: he was named a Texas Super Lawyer every year from 2003 through 2020 and again in 2024, an honor reserved for roughly five percent of the state’s attorneys. Earlier in his career he was Lubbock’s Outstanding Young Lawyer in 1988, the Texas Young Lawyers Association’s Outstanding Director in 1990, and the recipient of the State Bar of Texas President’s Award in 1999. He also taught as an adjunct professor at the Texas Tech School of Law from 1991 to 1993.

Perhaps the clearest measure of his standing came in 2005, when he was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers — an invitation-only body of preeminent trial attorneys from the United States and Canada whose membership never exceeds one percent of any state’s lawyers. He is also a life sustaining fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, whose members are nominated for their professional standing and dedication to the administration of justice.

Hund is not the lawyer you call for a routine fender-bender. His value shows in catastrophic injury cases — matters involving life-altering harm, complex liability questions, and defendants likely to appeal an unfavorable result. If your case may be fought at every level of the court system, his is exactly the kind of experience you want backing your trial team.