HOUSTON – Back in March, a local man sued Jim Adler & Associates, claiming the “Texas Hammer” wants a cut of attorney’s fees that he didn’t earn.
Court records show Adler answered the suit on May 10 and asserted counterclaims, which the trial dismissed on July 2.
Plaintiff Avery Battle filed the suit on March 11 in Harris County District Court, seeking $100,000 in damages.
According to the lawsuit, Battle hired and fired Adler within a 72 hour time period to represent him in a car wreck suit.
Claiming he was not fired for “good cause,” Adler now demands from Battle one third of the attorney’s fees from the litigation, “despite being terminated before any actual legal work was performed and despite not contributing to the recovery obtained by (Battle’s) new counsel,” the suit states.
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1. The Texas Hammer There s only one place to start when it comes to local commercials. The ads for the personal injury law firm of Jim Adler & Associates are stuck in the heads of every Dallas resident with a TV or Internet connection. Adler appears in every ad carrying his special sledgehammer IN A HOLSTER because, of course, he s The Texas Hammer. Duh. And to his credit, the ads work because they always go viral and even once got an entire And now. segment on John Oliver s
Adler speaks with the confidence of a coked up high school quarterback just before he takes the field; his personal iambic pentameter requires him to emphasize the word hammer regardless of the context. Practically all of his commercials feature him and sometimes his son and law partner Bill Adler screaming near the top of their lungs at semi-trucks who are too frightened to run him down or even be in his presence. We don t know what semi-trucks did to him to when he was a kid, and frankly, we never