In-depth legal guides on Texas and New Mexico personal injury law — trucking regulations, comparative fault, insurance tactics, surgery and recovery, gym injuries, workplace cases, and catastrophic injury claims. Written by Longhorn Law Firm attorneys.
Every guide here was written by an attorney from The Longhorn Law Firm and is based on the actual cases we handle in Texas and New Mexico.
Our surgery and recovery guide, for example, draws directly on managing attorney Shawn Barnett's own experience as an injury victim — a head-on collision with a drunk driver, and separately, an 18-wheeler striking the side of his truck.
Below you'll find eight clusters of content. Start with the one closest to your situation — or read the pillar guides at the top of each.
18-wheeler crashes aren't just bigger car wrecks — they're a different kind of case, governed by federal regulations and defended by corporate rapid-response teams. Our pillar guide walks through FMCSA rules, the evidence that wins these cases, who can be held liable, and the deadlines that decide them.
Read the Guide →Each cluster goes deep on one area of injury law. Pillar guides give the overview; spoke guides go in-depth on specific issues.
FMCSA regulations, electronic evidence, hours-of-service violations, negligent hiring, and the corporate rapid-response defense playbook. Our strongest SEO focus.
The playbook insurance companies use against injury victims — recorded-statement traps, lowball offers, social media surveillance, and the Stowers doctrine.
The Texas-specific rules that shape every injury case — statute of limitations, the 51% comparative-fault bar, the non-subscriber doctrine, dram shop liability, medical liens, and wrongful death.
NM's pure comparative fault, three-year statute, UM stacking, and the 90-day notice trap under the NM Tort Claims Act. More victim-friendly than Texas — if you know how to use it.
What surgery, rehab, and long-term recovery actually look like — and how the recovery affects your claim. Written from real experience by attorneys who have lived it.
An underserved area of injury law — gym equipment failures, trainer negligence, unsafe fitness facilities, and whether gym waivers actually hold up in Texas.
Texas non-subscriber cases, third-party claims, construction accidents, and Permian Basin oilfield injuries. The unique mechanics of TX workplace law that produce much larger recoveries than workers' comp.
The most serious cases we handle — traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, severe burns, and amputations. Lifetime medical care, vocational rehabilitation, and the case-value frameworks that apply when life is permanently changed.
The internet is full of legal "content" that exists for one reason — ranking in Google. Most of it is written by people who have never tried a case, never read a deposition, never sat across from an insurance adjuster.
We built this Resource Center to be different. Every guide is built from cases we actually handle in Texas and New Mexico — truck crashes on I-35, slip-and-falls at HEB, drunk-driver wrongful deaths on Loop 410, refinery injuries in the Permian, and the long road of recovery that follows. Our guides cite statutes (Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 16.003, NMSA § 37-1-8), explain real legal doctrines (the 51% bar, pure comparative fault, the Stowers doctrine, the NM Tort Claims Act 90-day rule), and walk through evidence that actually wins cases (ECM data, ELD logs, sweep records, surveillance footage).
If you find these useful and want to talk about your own case, consultations are always free. We're licensed in Texas and New Mexico, work in English and Spanish, and don't charge a dime unless we win.
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