Jim Hart

Jim Hart, a partner at Williams Hart & Boundas in Houston, has spent more than three decades taking on the kinds of cases that frighten most injury firms: fires and explosions at chemical plants and refineries, toxic tort claims, defective products, trucking collisions, and workplace injuries and deaths. Practicing since 1991, the former college quarterback has assembled a courtroom record that includes numerous multi-million-dollar verdicts in injury and death cases — and in 2025, his team earned TopVerdict.com’s number one jury verdict in Harris County for residential premises liability.

The recognition around that record runs deep. Jim has been selected to the Texas Super Lawyers list every single year since 2004, appears in The Best Lawyers in America 2026 for plaintiffs’ personal injury litigation, and holds Board Certification in Labor and Employment Law from the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is admitted to practice in all four federal district courts in Texas — the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts — which matters in industrial and trucking litigation that frequently lands in federal court.

His credentials trace back to Texas Tech University, where he earned a B.B.A. in Finance in 1983 while lettering in football for four years, serving as co-captain, and winning the Southwest Conference Sportsmanship Award his senior season. He returned to Texas Tech for law school in 1988 and graduated cum laude in 1991 with membership in the Order of the Coif, the law school honor society reserved for top graduates.

What clients consistently encounter is a lawyer shaped by his own understanding of what a lost paycheck means. Having known the pressure of supporting a household on a single income, Jim advocates hard for workers sidelined through no fault of their own — whether that means securing lifetime financial support for someone who can never work again or, in his union-side work, getting a wrongly terminated employee reinstated. He is a frequent speaker at labor union stewards and apprenticeship trainings, and he believes injured clients should be active, informed participants in their own cases rather than spectators.

Off the clock, Jim is an active church member, a Texas Tech Letterman’s Association and Double T Varsity Club member, a golfer, and a family man with five daughters and two granddaughters.

Jim is the right attorney for workers and families devastated by plant or refinery explosions, industrial accidents, toxic exposure, defective products, and serious trucking crashes — and for union members who want a lawyer who has spent decades on their side of the table. The firm offers free consultations and works on contingency.