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FVF Law Firm: Co-Founded by a Former Insurance Adjuster Who Now Sues the Companies He Used to Work For

Aaron Von Flatern spent part of his career on the other side of the table, working as an insurance adjuster before going to law school. This Austin personal injury attorney firm he co-founded in 2014 was built specifically around the idea that clients do better when they understand exactly how an insurance company evaluates their claim — because one of its founders used to be the one doing the evaluating.

At a Glance: Austin Personal Injury Attorney Firm Overview

Origin & Background

Josh Fogelman and Aaron Von Flatern worked together at another local Austin firm before co-founding FVF Law in 2014, built around a specific thesis: that injured clients make better decisions when they’re genuinely informed about their rights and options rather than rushed toward a quick settlement. Fogelman completed a clerkship at the Texas Supreme Court, giving him direct insight into how cases move through trial and appeal — a perspective distinct from private practice alone. Von Flatern’s earlier work as an insurance adjuster gives the firm a documented, specific vantage point on how insurers actually evaluate and process injury claims internally.

Practice Concentration

FVF Law handles personal injury and wrongful death cases exclusively, including car, truck, and motorcycle accidents, construction and workplace accidents, and brain injury claims. The firm has grown from its founding partners to a broader team of attorneys, including Kelly Gray, David Schupp, and Al Silverio, who handle client-facing case work alongside the founders.

Notable Work

The firm states it has helped nearly a thousand accident victims and recovered millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts since 2014, and separately states its attorneys collectively bring roughly 80 years of experience to the practice. The firm does not publish a structured, itemized case-results table with individual verdict or settlement figures. Past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future case, and the case-volume and experience figures above are as stated by the firm rather than independently itemized.

Client Voice

FVF Law holds 89 reviews on Yelp with a strong positive pattern, and its BBB profile reflects sustained accreditation since January 2015 — shortly after the firm’s founding. Reviewers repeatedly name specific attorneys and staff: one wrote that after their accident, “I know one thing that was positive from this accident, is to gain a friendship with Josh and Matt,” while another described attorney Hope Guardia and the team as “extraordinarily supportive, patient, and professional throughout my case.” A third-party review aggregator summarizing the firm’s pattern noted that “a few users expressed concerns over feeling overwhelmed initially before reaching out to the firm” — a reminder that initial client anxiety before contact is a documented pattern, not a complaint about the firm’s own service once engaged.

Beyond the Courtroom

The firm has built its public identity specifically around client education rather than purely results-driven marketing, publishing detailed practice-area explainer content and maintaining BBB accreditation continuously since early in its history — a sustained institutional commitment rather than a recent addition.

Recognition

No Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification for either founder was confirmed in available public materials, and this profile does not use “specialist” language as a result. Aaron Von Flatern has been recognized by Super Lawyers. These are peer-review and platform-based recognitions rather than state board certification, and this profile does not conflate the two.

Texas Legal Backdrop

Texas personal injury and wrongful death claims are generally subject to a two-year statute of limitations under Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 16.003 — the exact deadline the firm’s own materials tell prospective clients to confirm directly given case-specific accrual rules. Texas follows a modified comparative-fault “51% bar” rule under Civil Practice and Remedies Code Chapter 33: a claimant found more than 50% responsible for their own injury recovers nothing, while a claimant at 50% or below has recovery reduced by their share of fault. This is general background information, not legal advice, and does not account for the specific facts of any case.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

A co-founder with direct, documented insurance-adjuster experience is a genuinely useful and verifiable differentiator for a plaintiff-side PI firm — it’s a specific professional background that shapes how a firm anticipates an insurer’s playbook, not a vague marketing claim about “knowing the other side.” Sustained BBB accreditation since shortly after the firm’s 2014 founding, combined with a decade-plus of consistent, specifically-attributed positive reviews, points to a stable, established practice.

The honest gap: neither founder holds Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification, a credential several other firms in this directory’s Austin PI coverage carry, and the firm doesn’t publish a detailed, itemized settlements table the way a couple of comparably sized firms in this directory do — its “millions recovered” and “nearly a thousand clients” figures are firm-stated aggregates rather than case-by-case documentation. That’s worth asking about directly if a prospective client wants to compare specific case outcomes rather than firm-wide totals.

Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was compiled from the firm’s own website (fvflawfirm.com), including its AI information hub and practice-area pages, Yelp’s business listing and reviews (89 reviews), the Better Business Bureau’s business profile and accreditation history, and Wheree’s and ReachAttorneys’ independent review aggregation of client feedback patterns.

Publisher Disclosure & Independence Notice

Awesome Attorneys is an independently researched legal directory. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed by FVF Law Firm prior to publication. Awesome Attorneys may in the future offer sponsored placement products to firms profiled on this site, but sponsorship status has no bearing on editorial content, and inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement of any firm for any particular legal matter. Nothing in this profile constitutes legal advice or a lawyer referral; readers with a legal question should consult a licensed Texas attorney directly.