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Crosley Law: The Firm Whose Founder Sat on the State Bar of Texas Board

A San Antonio personal injury attorney’s credentials usually come down to trial results, but Thomas A. Crosley’s most distinctive line is procedural: he served as one of two elected directors from San Antonio on the State Bar of Texas board from 2021 to 2024, on top of a term as president of the San Antonio Bar Association. Crosley founded his firm in 2005 and has since tried more than 60 cases as lead counsel. This profile is part of Awesome Attorneys’ coverage of San Antonio personal injury lawyer options.

At a Glance

Origin & Background

Crosley earned his J.D. from the University of Houston in 1992, spent four years as an associate at Brown McCarroll and nine more as a partner at Branton & Hall before founding his own firm in 2005. His subsequent career has run in parallel through two tracks: trial work — traumatic brain injury litigation is his stated specialty, and he has lectured on it repeatedly at Texas Bar CLE’s Advanced Personal Injury Law Course — and bar leadership, including the presidency of the American Board of Trial Advocates’ San Antonio chapter (2017) and the San Antonio Bar Association (2019–2020). He is a Life Fellow of both the Texas Bar Foundation and the San Antonio Bar Foundation.

San Antonio Personal Injury Attorney Practice Concentration

As a San Antonio personal injury attorney practice, the firm’s six lawyers concentrate on catastrophic injury: traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, commercial trucking collisions, defective products, and premises liability, including oil-field injury cases arising from West Texas drilling operations. The firm states it represents plaintiffs exclusively and does not take defense-side work, consistent with the plaintiff-only standard this directory applies to personal injury profiles.

Beyond the San Antonio office, the firm also maintains a presence for clients across South and Central Texas, reflecting the regional draw of Crosley’s board-certified trial reputation rather than a multi-branch expansion strategy.

Track Record

Crosley Law’s own case summaries describe several results in the seven- and eight-figure range, including a fatal oil-field explosion case and a trampoline-park traumatic brain injury verdict the firm describes as record-setting for that venue; one pedestrian traumatic brain injury settlement is cited by the firm as ranking among the highest nationally that year for its case type, according to Verdict Search. These are the firm’s own reported results; past outcomes do not predict or guarantee results in any future case, and case value depends heavily on injury severity, liability facts, and available insurance coverage.

Client Voice

The firm’s Birdeye profile shows a 5.0 rating across 481 reviews, an unusually large volume for a six-attorney firm. One reviewer, describing a 2018 case, wrote that the firm kept in touch throughout the claims process and that a paralegal “kept me posted on new adjustments and called me to check on how I” was doing after the loss of a family member. Another client credited attorneys Dan Pacheco and Mark Ross by name for securing a settlement in a case the firm had taken on despite its difficulty. No pattern of substantive negative reviews or BBB complaints was found in the sources reviewed; the firm’s BBB file shows zero complaints on record.

Beyond the Courtroom

Crosley’s bar service extends well past ceremonial titles: he served on the Bexar County Commissioners Court’s Advisory Board for the Dispute Resolution Center from 2001 to 2006, and his elected State Bar of Texas board seat (District 10, Place 1) ran a full three-year term. He also sits on the Executive Committee of the American Association for Justice’s Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, reflecting a subject-matter focus that shows up consistently across his CLE presentations and published articles.

Recognition

Board certification disclosure: Thomas A. Crosley holds two board certifications — Personal Injury Trial Law from the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and Civil Trial Advocate from the National Board of Trial Advocacy — both independently verified through Best Lawyers and the firm’s own attorney biography, which is why “specialist” and “board certified” language is used for him individually in this profile. Separately, he is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has been named a Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” honoree for Product Liability Litigation–Plaintiffs in San Antonio for the 2026 edition. Texas Lawyer magazine’s “Best Personal Injury Law Firm” recognition in 2021 and 2022 is a reader- or peer-voted publication award rather than a certification and is disclosed here as such.

Texas Legal Backdrop

Texas gives injury victims two years from the date of the incident to file a personal injury lawsuit under the general personal injury statute of limitations, though claims against government entities carry much shorter notice deadlines — as little as six months in some cases — which is why prompt legal consultation matters most in cases involving a public employer or municipal vehicle. Texas also follows a pure comparative negligence framework: a plaintiff found up to 50% at fault can still recover damages, reduced by their percentage of responsibility, but recovery is barred entirely above that threshold. Oil-field injury cases, a stated focus of this firm, frequently implicate the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act’s non-subscriber provisions when the employer has opted out of the state’s workers’ comp system, opening the door to a direct negligence claim rather than a capped administrative one.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

Crosley Law’s clearest differentiator is depth of institutional bar leadership paired with genuine trial-law board certification: a founder who has held elected State Bar of Texas board office, led both the San Antonio Bar Association and the local American Board of Trial Advocates chapter, and holds dual board certification in personal injury and civil trial advocacy is a combination this directory has not seen elsewhere in the San Antonio market.

The honest trade-off is one common to any firm this closely identified with a single named partner: six attorneys handle the caseload, and clients should ask directly which attorney will be assigned to their specific matter rather than assuming Crosley himself will handle it personally. The firm’s review volume — nearly 500 across platforms — is unusually high and worth noting as a genuine positive, though a review volume this size from a single source also means individual negative experiences, if they exist, would likely be diluted rather than prominent; prospective clients should still do independent diligence beyond any one review platform.

Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was compiled from Crosley Law Firm’s own website (crosleylaw.com), Thomas A. Crosley’s attorney biography and Best Lawyers profile, LawLink and Lexinter attorney directory listings, the firm’s Birdeye and Yelp review pages, and its Better Business Bureau file. Board certifications were cross-checked against the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and National Board of Trial Advocacy designations as described in multiple independent sources. Statutory references were checked against the general Texas personal injury statute of limitations, Texas’s comparative negligence framework, and the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act’s non-subscriber provisions as generally published. No case results, credentials, or quotes were invented; the client statement quoted above is drawn directly from the firm’s public Birdeye review page.

Publisher Disclosure & Independence Notice

Awesome Attorneys is an independent legal directory and editorial publication. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed by Crosley Law Firm, P.C. prior to publication. Awesome Attorneys may in the future offer sponsored placements clearly labeled as such, but no payment of any kind determines inclusion in, or the content of, this editorial profile. This article is for informational purposes only, does not constitute legal advice, and does not create an attorney-client relationship between the reader and Crosley Law Firm or Awesome Attorneys.