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McMinn Personal Injury Lawyers: Founded by a Former Insurance Defense Attorney Who Switched Sides

Jason McMinn spent his early career defending insurance companies and businesses against injury claims at a large Fort Worth firm — learning exactly how the other side builds its case — before tort reform cut into that work and he decided to switch sides entirely. Two decades later, this Austin personal injury attorney firm he built with his brother Justin carries a 4.9-star Google rating across 389 reviews.

At a Glance: Austin Personal Injury Attorney Firm Overview

Origin & Background

Jason McMinn began his career at Decker, Jones, McMackin, McClane, Hall & Bates, a large established Fort Worth firm, where his primary practice areas were business litigation, medical malpractice defense, and general insurance defense. When Texas tort reform reduced the volume of defense-side work available, McMinn saw an opening to start his own plaintiff’s practice instead, founding the firm with his brother Justin in Austin in 2005. Justin McMinn is a member of the Texas Young Lawyers Association, the State Bar of Texas, and the Texas Trial Lawyers Association.

Practice Concentration

The firm represents injury victims exclusively — auto, trucking, and motorcycle accidents, pedestrian and rideshare-related crashes, wrongful death, serious brain injury, dog bites, and boat accidents. Attorney James (Jimmy) Feigen rounds out the trial team alongside the two founding brothers. The firm markets itself specifically on local familiarity — as one client review put it, wanting “somebody local that drove the streets and highways that I drove” rather than a national chain firm.

Notable Work

The firm’s site cites a 2017 Travis County verdict recognized by TopVerdict.com as among the #1 verdicts in Texas that year for uninsured motorist cases. A separately reported case outcome included $1,653,300 negotiated by Jason McMinn for a client’s medical expenses and other losses. Past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future case; these figures are as reported by the firm and by TopVerdict.com, an independent verdict-tracking publication.

Client Voice

The firm holds a 4.9-star Google rating across 389 reviews — a substantial sample size relative to most boutiques in this directory. Reviewers repeatedly cite responsiveness and local, personal attention: one client wrote that the firm “felt like family” and that despite having “several questions” as an older client, “they answered quickly and kindly, no matter how trivial.” Another described being “up against a Goliath” insurer and said the firm “definitely excelled” in handling that imbalance. Justin McMinn individually holds Avvo’s highest 10.0 “Superb” rating. No negative reviews of substance were located during this research.

Beyond the Courtroom

Justin McMinn is an alumnus of the Texas Kappa Alpha Order at the University of Texas and a member of the Silver Spurs Alumni Association, a UT-Austin tradition and spirit organization. Jason McMinn has spoken with University of Texas pre-law student organizations, including the Texas Undergraduate Law Review, about career advice for aspiring attorneys.

Recognition

No Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification for either McMinn brother was confirmed in available public materials, and this profile does not use “specialist” language for them as a result. Both Jason and Justin McMinn, along with associate James Feigen, have been selected to the Super Lawyers or Rising Stars lists (Justin specifically as a Rising Star from 2013–2021). Justin holds Avvo’s 10.0 Superb rating. 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 claims are generally subject to a two-year statute of limitations under Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 16.003, running from the date of injury or, for wrongful death, from the date of death. 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. Claims against government entities (a city bus, for instance, or a public roadway defect) carry separate, much shorter notice deadlines under the Texas Tort Claims Act. This is general background information, not legal advice, and does not account for the specific facts of any case.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

A founder who spent his early career on the insurance-defense side before switching to plaintiff’s work brings a specific, verifiable kind of insight into how defense counsel and insurers build their cases — not just a marketing claim, but a documented career history at a real defense firm. Combined with a 4.9-star rating across nearly 400 reviews, this is one of the more substantially reviewed boutiques in this directory’s Austin PI coverage.

The honest gap: neither founding brother holds Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification in Personal Injury Trial Law, a credential several other firms in this directory’s Austin coverage do carry, so prospective clients comparing firms on that specific state-administered standard won’t find it here. That doesn’t diminish the firm’s strong independent review record or its founder’s documented defense-side background — it’s simply a different kind of credential than a board certification, and worth understanding as such.

Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was compiled from the firm’s own website (mcminnlaw.com), including its team and testimonials pages, Super Lawyers’ firm and attorney profiles, Yelp’s business listing and reviews, Lawyers.com and LawInfo firm listings, and Google’s review aggregation (389 reviews, 4.9 stars) as reflected on the firm’s own site.

Publisher Disclosure & Independence Notice

Awesome Attorneys is an independently researched legal directory. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed by McMinn Personal Injury Lawyers 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.