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Tyler & Peery: Four of Six Attorneys Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law

John Tyler spent his first years out of law school on the insurance-defense side before deciding he wasn’t comfortable defending insurance companies against injured people. He left, and in 1990 started this San Antonio personal injury attorney firm with Dennis Peery. Thirty-five years later, four of the firm’s six attorneys hold the state’s top credential in personal injury trial law.

At a Glance: San Antonio Personal Injury Attorney Firm Overview

Origin & Background: A San Antonio Personal Injury Attorney Firm Since 1990

John Tyler graduated from Texas A&M in 1983 and from St. Mary’s Law School in 1986, passing the bar on his first attempt. He began his career at an insurance-defense-oriented firm but “did not feel comfortable representing insurance companies,” in his own words, and left to start his own practice. He and Dennis Peery founded Tyler & Peery in late 1989 and early 1990, growing from two attorneys to six over three-plus decades. Tyler holds Martindale-Hubbell’s AV Preeminent rating, the highest available, continuously since 1990.

Practice Concentration

The firm’s practice is devoted almost exclusively to plaintiff’s personal injury work, per its own materials, covering car accidents, wrongful death, medical malpractice, burn injuries, brain injuries, and spinal cord injuries. Four of the firm’s six attorneys — Dennis Peery, John Tyler, James Shaffer, and Jeffrey Jones — are individually Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law, an unusually high concentration of that specific credential relative to firm size. The firm states many of its current clients are repeat clients, and it receives referrals from other San Antonio attorneys who route their own clients’ personal injury matters to the firm.

Notable Work

The firm does not publish a structured, itemized verdicts-and-settlements table with individual case figures on its current site. Past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future case, and this gap in published results is disclosed directly rather than papered over.

Client Voice

The firm’s individual attorney profiles on Avvo and Justia show limited posted review volume as of this writing — a gap worth naming directly, though the firm’s referral-based client base (repeat clients and attorney referrals, per its own description) suggests a different kind of reputation signal than a high-volume consumer review platform would capture.

Beyond the Courtroom

John Tyler’s family history in Texas traces back to the earliest days of Texas statehood and the Alamo, a detail the firm’s own materials note as part of its San Antonio identity and roots in the community.

Recognition

Four of the firm’s six attorneys are Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization — the only “specialist” designation used in this profile, because it is independently state-administered. John Tyler holds Martindale-Hubbell’s AV Preeminent rating, its highest peer-review distinction, continuously since 1990. These are state-board and peer-review recognitions rather than firm self-description.

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. Medical malpractice claims specifically carry additional notice and expert-report requirements under Chapter 74 of the same code. This is general background information, not legal advice, and does not account for the specific facts of any case.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

As a San Antonio personal injury attorney firm, four board-certified Personal Injury Trial Law attorneys out of a six-attorney team is a genuinely unusual concentration of that specific state credential — most firms this size have one, if any. A founder who left insurance-defense work specifically because he was uncomfortable representing insurers against injured people, thirty-five years ago, adds a documented origin story consistent with the firm’s current plaintiff-exclusive focus.

The honest gap: this firm’s public-facing consumer review presence is thin relative to its longevity and credentials, leaning instead on repeat clients and attorney referrals as its primary reputation signal — a real but harder-to-verify form of trust for a prospective client doing independent research. There’s also no published, itemized results table, so a client can’t directly benchmark specific case outcomes against the firm’s decades of practice. Both are worth raising directly in a consultation.

Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was compiled from the firm’s public directory listings on Avvo (including founder John Tyler’s own biographical statement) and Justia’s attorney profiles for all four board-certified attorneys, and Personal Injury Lawyer Search’s independent firm summary.

Publisher Disclosure & Independence Notice

Awesome Attorneys is an independently researched legal directory. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed by The Law Offices of Tyler & Peery 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.