Rusty Hardin & Associates

Overview

<p>Rusty Hardin &amp; Associates LLP was established in Houston in 1996 by Russell 'Rusty' Hardin Jr., a former assistant district attorney in Harris County who has since tried more than 170 jury trials across Texas and the nation. The firm operates from downtown Houston at 1401 McKinney Street and carries a practice that is approximately 80 percent civil litigation and 20 percent criminal defense, with plaintiff personal injury, complex commercial litigation, and white-collar matters forming the principal workload of its 14 attorneys.</p><p>Hardin holds fellowships in the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He serves as a Senior Fellow and past President of the Litigation Counsel of America. Chambers and Partners has ranked him Band 1 in Litigation: Trial Lawyers for both Texas and the USA Nationwide in its 2025 guide, and also placed him Band 1 in Litigation: General Commercial (Texas: Houston &amp; Surrounds) and Litigation: White-Collar Crime &amp; Government Investigations in Texas. Hardin was inducted into the Lawdragon Leading Lawyers Hall of Fame in 2023 — one of 46 honorees nationwide and one of only four from Texas — and appeared on the Lawdragon 500 Most Prominent Managing Partners list in 2025.</p><p>Texas Super Lawyers has listed Hardin among the Top 100 attorneys in Texas and the Top 100 in Houston in every year since the publication's inception, a run exceeding two decades. The Best Lawyers in America awarded the firm a 2024 Tier 1 ranking in Houston across appeals, commercial litigation, white-collar criminal defense, and plaintiffs' personal injury litigation — the highest band available in each category.</p><p>In January 2026, a Hays County jury returned a $46 million verdict for the parents of Andrew West, an oilfield worker fatally struck by a truck at a well site in DeWitt County in 2019, a result reported by CBS Austin and Business Wire. Partners Hardin, Daniel Dutko, and Joe Roden tried the case. In 2013, the firm reached a $10 million settlement in Jackson County for the family of Juan Campos, a welder killed when a fatigued 18-wheeler driver crossed the center line, as announced on PR Newswire. Dutko, whose practice concentrates on catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, and products liability claims, was named to the 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America. Seven of the firm's partners earned listings in the 2025 Texas Super Lawyers guide.</p>

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