A personal injury law firm in Dallas founded by a former insurance professional

Choosing a personal injury law firm in Dallas is choosing who will speak for you to the insurance companies. This page is about the firm behind this website: who we are, where our attorneys came from and how we run a claim.

Injury Claim Lawyer Dallas is a website of LAWBOSS – Harris, Nelsen & Uvalle, PLLC. The firm’s principal office is in Dallas, at 5001 Spring Valley Road, Suite 240W, in North Dallas near the Dallas North Tollway. The firm also has offices in Houston and San Antonio. It is a law firm, not a referral service: the attorneys described here are the attorneys who handle the cases.

How the firm started

LAWBOSS was founded by Michael Uvalle. Before he became a lawyer, Michael worked for several of the largest insurance companies in Texas. He saw how injury claims are evaluated from the inside: how a file is opened, what an adjuster is trained to ask, how an offer is set and why some claims are paid while others are pushed aside. He decided to switch sides and build a firm that uses that knowledge for injured people.

The firm calls this the Insurance Insider Advantage. It is not a slogan about influence; insurers decide their own offers, and no firm controls them. It is a way of working: anticipating the other side’s moves so a client is not taken advantage of while recovering. The firm’s motto is Michael’s: Work Hard and Do Right.

Attorneys who came from the insurance side

Five of the seven attorneys at LAWBOSS came from the insurance side, as adjusters, insurance defense attorneys or trial attorneys for insurers. That background shapes how we build a claim: we prepare it for the person who will read it on the other side.

In our Dallas office

• Michael Uvalle, founding attorney, licensed in Texas since 2010. Former insurance industry professional with several of the largest insurers in Texas. Responsible attorney for this website.
• Rolando Reyna, Jr., attorney, licensed in Texas since 2021. Handles claims before a lawsuit is filed: building the file, the demand and the negotiation.
• Joseph Massey, attorney, licensed in Texas since 2024. Former workers’ compensation adjuster and manager, with insurance defense experience before law school.

Across the firm

• Jonathan Harris, Board Certified, Personal Injury Trial Law – Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Licensed in 1998, he spent more than a decade as a senior trial attorney for a major automobile insurer and leads the firm’s litigation from Houston.
• Ian Nelsen, partner, licensed in 2016. A former adjuster and insurance defense attorney, based in Houston.
• Howard Hill, litigation attorney in Houston, in practice since 1998, with more than 20 years with two of the largest auto and commercial insurers.

Every attorney named here is listed as eligible to practice in Texas on the State Bar of Texas website, where anyone can check a lawyer’s license and public record.

How the firm runs a claim

1. Intake, 24/7. The phones are answered day and night. Your information goes to an attorney, who reviews it with you for free.
2. Pre-litigation. Our Dallas attorneys build the file: the crash report, photos, witnesses, insurance policies, medical records and bills. They handle the insurance calls and prepare the demand.
3. Negotiation. We answer the insurer’s arguments with the evidence. Every offer comes to you with our advice; you decide.
4. Litigation, if needed. If the insurer will not deal fairly, the firm’s litigation attorneys file suit and take the case forward, with the Dallas team still beside you.

No Fees or Costs Unless We Win: the firm advances case costs, and you owe no attorney’s fee and no case costs unless money is recovered for you.

The Dallas office

Our Dallas office is the firm’s principal office, on Spring Valley Road in North Dallas, close to the Dallas North Tollway and LBJ Freeway. It is where Michael Uvalle, Rolando Reyna, Jr. and Joseph Massey work and where Dallas intake calls are answered, day and night. Clients are welcome to meet the team there, but many never need to: a great deal of a claim can be handled by phone, email and mail, and when a client cannot travel because of an injury, we arrange to meet where it suits them.

The office’s place on the map matters less than the people in it. What clients notice is that the person who calls them back knows their file, answers the question that was asked and says plainly what happens next. That is the standard we hold ourselves to, on the first call and on the last.

One firm from intake to trial

A claim handled by LAWBOSS stays with LAWBOSS. When a case can be resolved before suit, our Dallas pre-litigation attorneys see it through. When it needs to be filed, the firm’s litigation attorneys take the lead in court while the Dallas team keeps in touch with you. You do not start over with strangers. The file, the records and the history of the negotiation go with the case, so nothing learned in the first months is lost.

What our clients say

Google showed a rating of 4.7 for our Dallas office from 2,674 reviews when this page was written in November 2026. You can read the reviews, in the clients’ own words, on the firm’s Google profile. Reviews describe past clients’ experience; every case is different, and no review is a promise about the outcome of another.

How to choose a personal injury law firm in Dallas

Many searches for a firm start with a superlative, and every firm’s advertising wants to answer it. Texas advertising rules limit what a firm may claim about itself, and for good reason: what matters is whether a firm fits your case. These are the questions we would ask in your place:

• Who will handle my case? Ask for names, and look each of them up on the State Bar of Texas website.
• Does the firm handle the case itself? Some advertisers send cases on to other firms. Ask.
• What does the fee agreement say about case costs? The fee and the costs should be in writing and explained before you sign.
• How will I hear about progress? You should know who your contact is and how to reach them.
• Does the firm understand the insurer’s side? Ask how the firm prepares a demand and how it answers the fault arguments insurers make.
• Is anyone promising a number? No honest attorney can value a claim before the injury and the coverage are known.

The Texas law every Dallas firm works with

Any Dallas personal injury firm works within the same rules. A lawsuit generally must be filed within two years (Civil Practice and Remedies Code section 16.003). Claims against government units need written notice within six months or less (section 101.101). Your recovery is reduced by your share of responsibility and barred above 50 percent (sections 33.001 and 33.012). Texas auto policies must carry at least 30/60/25 liability coverage (Transportation Code section 601.072), and PIP and uninsured motorist coverage are included unless rejected in writing (Insurance Code sections 1952.152 and 1952.101). Our Texas injury law guide explains each rule.

Dallas County lawsuits are filed in the civil district courts at the George L. Allen, Sr. Courts Building, 600 Commerce Street. Federal cases in this area are heard by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, which sits in Dallas.

Where we work

We take injury claims from Dallas and the towns around it, including Irving, Garland, Mesquite, Grand Prairie, Richardson, Carrollton, Plano, Arlington and DeSoto. The firm’s offices are in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio; for clients in these towns we meet by phone, at the Dallas office or where the client is recovering. See areas we serve.

Read more about the claim itself on our pages for a personal injury lawyer in Dallas, an accident lawyer in Dallas and an injury lawyer in Dallas.