Williams Hart Boundas Easterby

Overview

<p>Williams Hart Boundas Easterby PLLC is a Houston plaintiff personal-injury firm that has been active since 1983. Operating from 8441 Gulf Freeway, Suite 600, the firm concentrates its practice on catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, maritime and Jones Act claims, industrial and oilfield accidents, commercial vehicle collisions, aviation disasters, product liability, and mass tort and class-action litigation. The firm's attorneys are admitted to practice in Texas state and federal district courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.</p><p>Founding partner John Eddie Williams Jr., licensed in Texas since 1978, holds board certification in Personal Injury Trial Law from the Texas Board of Legal Specialization — a credential held by fewer than 1,300 attorneys statewide. Williams has served on the Board of Governors of the American Association for Justice and as president of both the Texas Trial Lawyers Association and the Houston Trial Lawyers Association. In 2018, the Texas Trial Lawyers Association presented him its Lifetime Achievement Award and he was inducted into the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame. Partner Jim Hart, admitted in Texas since 1991 and Pennsylvania since 2005, holds board certification in Labor and Employment Law from the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Williams, Hart, and partner Cesar Tavares each appear in the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the categories of Personal Injury Litigation: Plaintiffs and Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions: Plaintiffs, with selection based entirely on peer review. Fourteen of the firm's attorneys have been selected to the Texas Super Lawyers or Rising Stars lists. In the Chambers USA Spotlight Texas 2026 guide, the firm was identified as one of nine Houston practices ranked for Personal Injury, a designation reserved for firms with documented regional performance records.</p><p>The firm's publicly reported verdicts span multiple practice concentrations. A $12.45 million jury verdict was entered in the 129th District Court of Harris County in 2019 following a commercial truck collision. A $117.8 million verdict, documented on the firm's case results page, arose from a chemical-plant wrongful death. A $17.5 million verdict was recorded in Tarrant County in 2025. The firm also served as lead counsel in the $7.25 billion Monsanto Roundup class-action settlement, among the largest in mass-tort history. Across more than four decades of practice, the firm reports recovering in excess of $24 billion for injured clients.</p>

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