Robert C. Hilliard

Robert C. Hilliard is the founder and owner of Hilliard Law, a Texas trial firm that takes on catastrophic injury and civil rights cases for people harmed by negligence, recklessness, or institutional wrongdoing. For an injury victim comparing Houston-area lawyers, the clearest way to evaluate his firm is through the results it has actually delivered — and those results involve some of the toughest categories of cases a plaintiff can bring.

The firm’s track record includes a $13 million settlement for a crane truck operator paralyzed on the job, an $11.5 million settlement for a man burned in a workplace accident, and a $10 million settlement for a worker who was sent to the top of a vessel at a chemical facility and, without warning, exposed to lethal concentrations of gases including carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, nitrogen, and hydrogen. On the trial side, Hilliard Law attorneys won a $10.5 million verdict for a commercial truck driver who suffered fatal injuries in a fall while making a delivery at a BASF chemical plant, and a $1.375 million jury verdict in 2019 for a man seriously hurt in an automobile crash — a result recognized among that year’s Top 100 verdicts.

The firm’s reach extends beyond traditional injury work. Its attorneys secured a substantial confidential settlement against a financial institution that applied discriminatory standards to its Black customers — a case that struck at the practice widely described as “Banking while Black.” That willingness to litigate against banks and major corporations, not just insurance carriers, says something about how the firm approaches powerful defendants.

Hilliard Law is a fit for people facing high-stakes claims: industrial and chemical plant injuries, workplace catastrophes, paralysis and severe burn cases, wrongful death, and serious vehicle collisions — as well as clients who believe a corporation or institution wronged them and want trial lawyers unafraid of a courtroom fight. The firm handles injury cases on contingency, meaning clients owe no fee unless they recover, and initial consultations are free. Victims weighing their options should ask directly about who at the firm would run their case day to day and how its trial experience applies to their specific facts.