Texas-licensed personal injury attorney and trial lawyer — San Antonio
Jonathan Perez has spent his legal career representing the people Texas's insurance industry would rather not pay. Injured workers. Crash victims. Families coping with the loss of a loved one. The people who can't outspend the corporate defendants and the deep-pocket insurers — and who need a lawyer willing to do the work it takes to make those defendants pay anyway.
That work isn't theoretical. Jonathan is a trial attorney. He takes cases to verdict when he has to. He knows how Texas juries decide cases, what evidence resonates with them, and how the rules of civil procedure can be used to extract real accountability from defendants who would rather settle nothing or settle low.
His path to law wasn't traditional. Before he was an attorney, Jonathan was an athlete — a baseball player at St. Mary's University in San Antonio on athletic scholarship. The discipline of competing at the collegiate level taught him things about preparation, performance under pressure, and recovery from setbacks that have shaped his approach to legal practice ever since.
Athletes who turn into lawyers tend to share certain habits. They show up early. They do the boring fundamentals work without complaint. They take losses seriously enough to learn from them — and treat wins seriously enough to keep working anyway. They understand that confidence comes from preparation, not the other way around.
Jonathan played baseball at St. Mary's University in San Antonio on athletic scholarship. College baseball is grueling work — fall practice, winter conditioning, spring travel schedules, summer leagues — layered over a full academic load. It teaches time management whether you want to learn it or not.
It also teaches you what it's like to be the underdog in your own game. St. Mary's competes in NCAA Division II — a level where talent is real but resources are limited. Players have to be better-coached and better-prepared than their bigger-school counterparts to compete. That same dynamic plays out in plaintiff's-side personal injury work: you're the underdog by definition, going up against insurance defense firms with bigger budgets and corporate clients with deep pockets. You win by being more prepared, working harder, and never assuming your opponent will make a mistake.
After undergraduate, Jonathan headed to Houston for law school at Texas Southern's Thurgood Marshall School of Law. TSU has a particular reputation for producing trial lawyers and plaintiffs' attorneys — the kind of practitioners who learn in classrooms what it actually takes to try a case to verdict. Jonathan made that work his focus from day one.
Jonathan has spent his career building trial readiness into every case. The discipline: prepare every case as if it's going to trial, even when most settle. Defense attorneys learn quickly which plaintiff's lawyers are bluffing on trial and which aren't — and that knowledge changes how cases settle.
The case types. Jonathan handles the full range of personal injury matters in Texas state and federal courts — motor vehicle accidents (cars, trucks, motorcycles, rideshare), premises liability with particular emphasis on slip-and-fall cases against major retailers, workplace injuries including non-subscriber TX claims, wrongful death matters for surviving families, catastrophic injuries (TBI, spinal cord, burns, amputations), and insurance bad faith / Stowers Doctrine cases.
Notable practice area: major-retailer premises liability. Jonathan has developed particular experience with premises liability cases against major Texas retailers — including the HEB grocery chain, which operates hundreds of stores across South Texas. These cases require detailed knowledge of corporate inspection policies, surveillance footage retention practices, employee training protocols, and the procedural maze that corporate defendants use to slow down or defeat injury claims. Jonathan knows that playbook and how to counter it.
The trial approach. Cases that go to trial require evidence — the right documents, the right depositions, the right experts, the right timeline. Jonathan does that preparation methodically: discovery served immediately, depositions taken seriously, exhibits prepared early, motions in limine filed strategically. By the time a case is in the courtroom, the work has already been done. The verdict is just the result.
Examples of the kinds of cases Jonathan has handled — not specific dollar amounts (confidentiality provisions in settlement agreements typically restrict disclosure), but representative summaries of case types and outcomes.
The Longhorn Law Firm operates under an established co-counsel model. Shawn Barnett is New Mexico-licensed and admitted in the federal Western District of Texas. Jonathan Perez is Texas-licensed and based in San Antonio. Together, they cover the full TX-NM practice area with full local presence in both states.
What this means for clients:
The co-counsel model means clients don't lose anything by going with The Longhorn Law Firm. They get full local capability in both states — without the rotating-cast feel of bigger firms that pass clients between attorneys.
Jonathan's San Antonio base isn't an accident. San Antonio is one of Texas's most important markets for personal injury litigation — Bexar County juries are known for being attentive, fair, and unwilling to be condescended to. The county's mix of working-class, military, and professional populations creates jury pools that take cases seriously.
The San Antonio area also has its own ecosystem of plaintiffs' lawyers — and Jonathan has spent years building working relationships with the experts, court reporters, investigators, and medical providers who make personal injury cases possible. When a case requires immediate accident reconstruction, urgent medical records retrieval, or a vocational expert for damages, Jonathan has those resources at hand.
The firm's San Antonio office at 10 Dominion Drive serves clients throughout Bexar County, the Hill Country, and the I-35 corridor between Austin and SA. From there, Jonathan also handles cases in surrounding venues — Comal, Guadalupe, Wilson, Atascosa, and Medina counties — as well as cases in Travis County (Austin), Harris County (Houston), and other Texas venues when the cases require it.
Hiring a personal injury attorney is a personal decision. The lawyer matters — their experience, their attention, and their willingness to take the case all the way if that's what it takes.
What Jonathan Perez offers his clients:
Schedule a free consultation with Jonathan Perez. No fee unless we win your case. Available 24/7 — including evenings and weekends for serious injury and wrongful death matters.
