$11.4M
2025 · Trucking · Dallas County · Verdict
Wrong-way commercial driver on I-30. The carrier never offered above $2M. A Dallas County jury returned $11.4M after a six-day trial.
No Fee Unless We Win Your Case
Trial Lawyers · Established 1998
When the Outcome Matters, Bring the Lawyers Who Try the Case.
We represent people who have been seriously injured. Most of our cases settle. The ones that do not, we try. Insurance carriers know which firms walk into a courtroom and which firms do not. We do. You pay nothing unless we recover for you.
Board-Certified, Personal Injury Trial Law · Texas Bar Foundation Fellow · 25+ Years Trying Cases
$62.2MRecovered, 2020 to 2025
60+Jury Trials to Verdict
25+Years Trying Cases
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One Case, From Its Own File
The Anatomy of an $8.2 Million Recovery.
Anonymized from the firm's files · Results vary based on the unique facts of each case
DAY 411 Day 411 · Resolved
$8.2 million. Care for life, in writing.
Structured to fund her care for life, with the liens negotiated down and every number itemized in the closing statement. Nine months of denied liability, answered by one deposition. Most cases settle. This is why ours settle differently.
RESOLVED · GROSS RECOVERY $8,200,000 · CLOSING STATEMENT ITEMIZED
The carrier's position
$8,200,000
Resolved at mediation
Day 405 · Mediation, trial date 60 days out
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If you have been hurt in a wreck, on someone's property, or by a doctor who failed you, do not give a recorded statement to an adjuster before you speak with a lawyer. There is no fee for the consultation, and no fee unless we recover for you.
When you submit this form, I personally review every intake. You will hear from a licensed attorney, not a paralegal, the same business day. After hours and weekends, call the number above and a member of the firm answers.
The Record
Verdicts and Settlements, County by County.
Not a lifetime tally with no dates. Eighteen recent matters, each with the year, the county, the resolution, and what the firm actually did to move the number.
$8.2M
2024 · Trucking · Dallas County · Settlement
18-wheeler rear-end collision on I-635. Liability denied for nine months. Resolved at mediation after the deposition of the safety director. The case told above, day by day.
$6.75M
2025 · Catastrophic Injury · Dallas County · Settlement
Traumatic brain injury from a commercial vehicle collision. Life-care plan built with treating physicians. Structured settlement funds care for life.
$4.6M
2023 · Hospital Negligence · Tarrant County · Settlement
Failure to diagnose a post-surgical infection. Confidential settlement reached the week before trial, after expert disclosures were filed.
$3.4M
2021 · Wrongful Death · Denton County · Settlement
Drunk-driver fatality. Recovery for the surviving spouse and two minor children, including a future-loss-of-support component.
$2.1M
2023 · Premises Liability · Collin County · Trial Verdict
Severe fall at a commercial retail property with a known maintenance defect. The defense moved for summary judgment. The court denied it. We tried it and won.
Disclosure: results vary based on the unique facts of each case.
Practice Areas
What We Handle.
Three sentences per case type, naming the evidence we pull and the law that governs it. If your case is not here, ask, the consultation costs nothing.
Auto Accidents
Rear-end collisions, intersection wrecks, and highway pile-ups. We pull police reports, scene photos, and dashcam evidence the day you sign, before the carrier reframes the story.
Truck and 18-Wheeler
Commercial trucking is governed by federal regulations the average firm rarely cites. We work with accident reconstructionists, ECM data, and FMCSA logs.
Motorcycle
Left-turn collisions, lane-change crashes, and underinsured motorist claims. Riders deserve a firm that does not start from the assumption that the rider was at fault.
Premises Liability
Serious falls, negligent security, and unsafe conditions on commercial property. We pursue the operator and the corporate owner, because liability often hides one entity removed from the scene.
Work Injury
Construction, oilfield, and warehouse injuries on Texas non-subscriber jobsites. Third-party negligence claims that workers' comp will not address.
Wrongful Death
Representing surviving spouses, parents, and children when negligence has taken a family member. We handle these cases with the discretion they deserve.
Why Bauder
What Sets a Trial Firm Apart from a Settlement Mill.
We try cases.
Roughly 95 percent of personal injury firms settle every case they take. We are not one of them. The carriers who pay our cases know that, and it is priced into every offer they make us.
We are board-certified.
Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Personal Injury Trial Law. Fewer than 2 percent of Texas lawyers hold this certification. It is earned in courtrooms, not purchased on a badge wall.
We do not pyramid.
The lawyer who signs your case is the lawyer who tries it. We do not run an intake mill that hands you to a junior associate after the contract is signed.
Attorneys
Who Will Represent You.
Two trial partners, one small senior team, and a rule we put in writing: the lawyer you meet is the lawyer who works your case.
Robert L. Bauder
Founding Partner · Board-Certified, Personal Injury Trial LawFounded the firm in 1998 after eight years defending carriers, where he learned exactly how insurers value cases. He has spent the twenty-five years since making them pay attention.
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Elena M. Vasquez
Senior Trial Partner · Former Dallas County ProsecutorSixty-plus jury trials to verdict, first as a Dallas County prosecutor, now for injured families. She tries cases in English and in Spanish, personally, in the same courtroom.
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Working Together
What Happens After You Call.
01
Free Consultation
We listen, review your records, and tell you honestly whether we believe a case can be built. No pressure to sign.
02
Investigation and Filing
Preservation letters go out immediately. We secure evidence, retain experts, and file suit when the facts support it.
03
Negotiation
Most cases resolve through measured negotiation backed by trial readiness. Carriers settle differently when a firm will try.
04
Trial if Necessary
When a fair offer never comes, we go to trial. Prepared witnesses, polished exhibits, and a strategy refined by years of jury work.
From the fileClient correspondence
The trucking company's lawyers acted like our case was a nuisance for the first six months. After Mr. Bauder deposed their safety director, the offer arrived within a week. He returned every call I made, and he sat with me at the mediation until it was finished.Wife of trucking-collision client, Dallas
From the fileClient correspondence
My son will need care for the rest of his life. Elena walked us through every medical opinion and every number, never sugar-coated the hard parts, and held the hospital accountable. The settlement covers his future. That is what we needed.Father of catastrophically injured teen, Plano
Common Questions
What Injury Clients Ask First.
Do I have a case?
There is no flat answer until we hear the facts. The case-evaluation call is free. If we believe a recovery is realistic, we say so. If we do not, we tell you that as well, and we will often refer you to a firm better suited to your situation.
What does it cost to hire your firm?
Nothing up front. We work on a contingency fee: one third if your case resolves before suit is filed, forty percent after. The full arithmetic, including expenses and medical liens, is published on our What a Case Is Worth page and disclosed in plain language before you sign.
What if I was partially at fault?
Texas follows a modified comparative negligence rule. As long as you were fifty percent or less at fault, you can still recover, reduced by your percentage. Do not assume you have no case because the other side is blaming you. Adjusters do that on every claim.
Can I switch lawyers if I already signed with another firm?
Yes. You have the right to replace your attorney at any time. The original firm may have a lien for work done, which is paid out of the recovery and does not increase your total fee. We have taken cases mid-stream and improved them.
Cases end in rooms like this. What decides them is the file that walks in with you.
The mediation room · The file speaksIf You Are Hurt, the Clock Is Already Running.
Texas gives you two years to file most injury claims, and the evidence starts disappearing in the first month. Surveillance video is overwritten, witnesses move, adjusters take statements that hurt cases. The consultation is free, and there is no fee unless we recover for you.
Schedule Your Free Consultation Or call (214) 555-0184. Twenty-four hours. Hablamos Español. See exactly how much time your case has left on the statute clock.