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Hersh Law Firm, PC: Board Certified, With Conflicting Claims About Who the Firm Represents

Two pages on Barry Hersh’s own current website disagree with each other. The homepage states that because his firm “represents ‘both sides,’” Hersh understands what motivates both plaintiffs and defendants. His own attorney biography page, on the same site, says he “dedicates 100 percent of his practice to representing employees and small businesses.” Awesome Attorneys could not resolve this contradiction with confidence and is disclosing it directly rather than silently picking whichever version reads better, in the interest of anyone evaluating this Dallas employment lawyer for a specific case.

At a Glance: This Dallas Overtime and Wage Lawyer’s Credentials

I. From Big Law Defense Work to a Solo Employment Practice

Barry Hersh earned his B.A. with high distinction from the University of Michigan, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law in 1998, where he served as a judicial intern for Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht. Before opening his own firm, Hersh represented some of the nation’s most prominent employers while working at two of Texas’s largest law firms — meaning his early career was on the employer-defense side, a background that predates the firm he opened in 2004.

II. A Practice With an Unresolved Self-Description

Since 2004, Hersh’s own firm materials describe his focus differently depending on the page. His homepage describes serving “individuals and businesses” and explicitly states the firm represents “both sides” of workplace disputes. His separate attorney biography page, however, states he dedicates 100 percent of his practice to employees and small businesses — which would exclude representing employer-defendants as clients. Super Lawyers, an independent third party, categorizes his work specifically as “Employment Litigation: Plaintiff,” and every client review Awesome Attorneys located during this research describes an employee-side matter: unpaid wages, overtime disputes, severance negotiations after termination, and a 1099 misclassification dispute. No employer-side client account was located anywhere in this research.

III. Practice Concentration

Hersh’s stated practice areas include unpaid overtime and wage claims, severance agreement review and negotiation, non-compete and non-solicitation disputes, commission and bonus disputes, wrongful termination, sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and independent contractor misclassification. He represents clients in state and federal courts, in mediation and arbitration, and before the EEOC, the Texas Workforce Commission, and the U.S. Department of Labor.

IV. Track Record

Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome. Employment settlements are frequently confidential, which limits what any firm can publish about specific outcomes.

Awesome Attorneys was unable to independently verify specific settlement or verdict figures for Hersh’s practice; none of the sources reviewed for this profile published itemized case results. Client reviews consistently describe successful outcomes in unpaid-wage recovery, severance negotiation, and wrongful termination matters, but without independently verifiable dollar figures attached. That gap is disclosed here rather than filled with estimated numbers.

V. Client Voice

Hersh carries a strong, independently aggregated 4.62-star rating across 69 verified reviews on Experience.com, and holds an Avvo Client’s Choice Award badge, granted to attorneys with a significant volume of 4-plus-star reviews. Reviewers describe being helped with unpaid wage and overtime recovery, severance agreement negotiation after job loss in one’s sixties, and a hostile 1099 contractor dispute. One reviewer specifically wrote that they contacted Hersh after their employer wrongfully terminated them, and separately commented that more employee-side attorneys like him are needed. As noted above, Awesome Attorneys did not locate any employer-side client reviews to weigh against this employee-side pattern.

VI. Beyond the Courtroom

Hersh has practiced employment law in Dallas for more than two decades since opening his firm in 2004, following earlier experience defending major employers at two large Texas firms. He is admitted to practice before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and all four U.S. District Courts in Texas — Northern, Eastern, Southern, and Western — giving him the ability to litigate wherever in the state a case is filed.

VII. Recognition

Peer-reviewed and independently conferred credentials: Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification in Labor and Employment Law; Texas Super Lawyers selection for Employment Litigation — Plaintiffs every year from 2014 through 2025; Super Lawyers Rising Star selection from 2009 through 2013; D Magazine’s “Best Lawyers under 40 in Dallas” in 2006; and D Magazine’s “Best Lawyers in Dallas” in the Labor & Employment category for 2016 and 2017. Awesome Attorneys notes the Super Lawyers “Plaintiff” designation specifically, since it is an independent, third-party classification that runs counter to the “both sides” language on the firm’s own homepage.

VIII. The Texas Legal Backdrop

A large share of Hersh’s described practice involves unpaid overtime and wage claims under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, which generally carries a two-year statute of limitations (three years for willful violations), and the Texas Payday Act, Texas Labor Code Chapter 61, enforced administratively through the Texas Workforce Commission. His discrimination and retaliation work runs through Title VII, the ADA, and the ADEA at the federal level, each generally requiring an EEOC charge before suit, and the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act (Texas Labor Code Chapter 21), which requires a parallel charge with the Texas Workforce Commission’s Civil Rights Division within 180 days of the alleged act.

IX. Awesome Attorneys Assessment: This Dallas Employment Lawyer’s Strengths and Limits

Hersh’s board certification, two decades in practice, and a genuinely strong independent review base (69 reviews at 4.62 stars) reflect a well-regarded, established practice. His UT Law honors credential and prior experience representing major employers give him direct insight into how defense counsel and corporate HR departments think about a case — a real asset for an employee-side advocate, if that is in fact the entirety of his current practice.

The honest complication is the one already disclosed above: Awesome Attorneys found a genuine, unresolved contradiction in the firm’s own current marketing about whether it represents only employees or both sides of the employment relationship. Every independently verifiable data point — Super Lawyers’ plaintiff-only classification, every client review located, and the attorney bio page’s own “100 percent” language — points toward an employee-side practice. But the homepage’s explicit “both sides” language cannot simply be ignored. A prospective employee client should ask Hersh directly whether his firm currently represents, or has represented, their employer in any matter before retaining him.

X. Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was compiled from Hersh Law Firm’s own website (hersh-law.com), including its homepage, attorney biography page, and client review pages; Super Lawyers’ attorney profile; Avvo and Experience.com aggregated review data; and Justia and Cornell Legal Information Institute directory listings. The contradiction between the firm’s homepage and attorney bio page regarding which side(s) it represents is disclosed directly above rather than resolved by assuming either version is correct. No case results, credentials, or quotes were invented; where verifiable case-outcome data was not available, that gap is disclosed rather than filled.

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