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Alex Hilliard
Attorney
  • Bio
  • Admissions & Education
  • Experience
  • Community Involvement
  • Professional Associations & Accolades
  • Publications

Alex Hilliard

Attorney

Alex Hilliard is a dedicated advocate for those who have been injured or have lost a loved one due to another party’s negligence. Alex is committed to championing his clients’ interests, understanding the challenges they face, and helping them secure compensation for their losses.

Alex’s top priority is achieving the most just case resolution for his clients, be it trial or settlement, which is seen in his tireless investigation and persistence. He has distinguished himself with the loyalty and support he shows to his clients in his determination to ensure that their voices are heard.

His kindhearted nature makes him perfect for his position in personal injury and wrongful death cases – he handles clients with the sensitivity that is required, yet is committed to researching and crafting a strategy that strengthens each case. He brings passion on behalf of those he serves and shares empathy with those victims of tragedy at all times.

Alex’s legal accomplishments have been recognized by his peers. Alex was named a Rising Star by Texas Super Lawyers in 2021 and 2022.

Admissions & Education

Alex received his undergraduate degree from The University of Texas in Austin where he was named an Academic All American on the varsity tennis team. He played tennis for four years, traveling across the nation competing in both singles and doubles tournaments, while maintaining his studies for his major in Middle Eastern History with a minor in English Literature.

Alex graduated from St. Mary’s School of Law in San Antonio in May 2017 with honors. While in law school, Alex remained an avid competitor. As a member of the mock trial team, Alex led St. Mary’s to its first national championship at the William Daniel National Invitational Mock Trial Competition in Atlanta. He earned multiple individual advocacy awards for his ability to effectively present legal arguments.

  • Juris Doctorate St. Mary’s School of Law
    San Antonio , TX 2017
  • B.A. in Middle Eastern History, Minor in English Literature The University of Texas
    Austin , TX

Experience

Alex has experience in several areas of personal injury and wrongful death litigation, including the high-profile ignition-switch litigation against General Motors. HMG represented injury victims and families of those killed in accidents caused by GM’s defective ignition switch and their concealment of safety defects. This multi-district litigation is considered the single largest product liability litigation in US history, resulting in a $575 million settlement.

Alex was recently appointed to serve on the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in the Astroworld Litigation MDL No.: 21-1033 in the 11th Judicial District Court, Harris County, Texas. Further, in September 2018, Alex was appointed to the Plaintiffs’ Litigation Committee for the MSU/Nassar Class-Action in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan.

In addition to the record-setting GM settlement, Alex has been involved in several notable verdicts and settlements.

In 2018, Alex was part of the HMG trial team in a product liability case against Yamaha Golf-Car Company, involving a golf cart that tipped over on a child causing a severe traumatic brain injury. After four weeks of trial, the jury verdict returned a verdict of $33 million in damages.

In December of 2019, and HMG’s most recent jury trial, Alex tried a case with HMG attorney John Duff involving wrongful death in a premises liability case against I&R Trucking. Our client was the widow of Juan Perez, a trucker and handyman, who died after falling through a roof after his employer asked him to replace a rooftop skylight. Despite the employer’s knowledge of the dangerous hazard, which had existed on the roof for years prior to the incident, the employer willfully failed to provide Mr. Perez with any fall protection training, instruction, or equipment.

The jury in San Patricio County, Texas, a notoriously conservative county, unanimously agreed that I&R Trucking was grossly negligent for its callous disregard of the safety and welfare of its employee. After only three days of trial, the jury returned a record breaking $18 million verdict, including $10 million in punitive damages. The verdict remains the single largest wrongful death verdict in a premises liability case in the history of San Patricio County, Texas.

Currently, Alex is part of a class action litigation team that represents diesel truck owners fighting against U.S. auto manufacturers — Ford, General Motors, FCA (Chrysler) — for allegedly selling millions of diesel trucks equipped with defective CP4 fuel injection pumps that disintegrate and destroy the truck’s engine, leaving consumers with repair bills that range from $8,000.00 to $20,000.00 per vehicle.

In addition to his successful verdicts and settlements, Alex has also had numerous court room successes as he’s fought to obtain justice for his clients.

Recently, Alex took on the corporate giant, Wal-Mart, fighting to obtain key smoking gun documents in a premises liability case involving a crane tip-over in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Corpus Christi, Texas. Plaintiffs alleged that Wal-Mart deliberately withheld the documents and further engaged in an attempt to deny their existence. However, Alex was successful in requiring Wal-Mart produce the documents in question after successfully obtaining a court order allowing Plaintiffs to forensically examine Wal-Mart’s Computers and Integrated Workplace Management System.

A Texas trial court in Nueces County later granted Plaintiffs’ Motion for Sanctions for Discovery Abuse against Wal-Mart ordered the corporate giant to pay $35,000 in sanctions for the discovery abuse. Alex stated, “Wal-Mart’s actions unequivocally demonstrate a well-orchestrated campaign designed to bury evidence in an effort to derail Plaintiffs’ carefully designed discovery program. Their “hide-and-seek” tactics illustrate Wal-Mart’s pre-meditated attempt to abuse the discovery process by denying the existence of certain crucial and relevant evidence. Unfortunately, nefarious conduct is all too common in lawsuits in which Wal-Mart is a party. Wal-Mart has chosen extreme discovery abuse as a litigation strategy. This case is just another example in a rapidly growing list of Wal-Mart’s egregious approach to discovery, a pattern that can no longer be ignored.”

He is also a sought-after speaker and he regularly presents on cutting-edge legal topics. This year, Alex will address audiences across the country about how law firms can improve results by conducting in-house mock trials. In the past year, Alex has lectured at the Advanced Personal Injury Law Conference in Dallas, on the latest tactics in the financial aspect of budgeting a personal injury lawsuit and was a featured speaker at the Texas ALP 2018 Fall Education Conference. Alex regularly speaks at continuing education events for the Texas Bar College and the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Civil Trial, Civil Appellate, and Personal Injury Trial Law, and was honored to speak at the Litiquest 2018 conference at Google Headquarters in New York.

Community Involvement

Alex often gives back to his community by working with local middle school, high school and college mock trial teams. He enjoys working with the students and helping them expand their knowledge in mock trial techniques.

Memberships

  • American Association for Justice
  • Corpus Christi Bar Association
  • Texas Young Lawyers Association
  • Texas Rising Star, 2021-2022

Publications

  • Doing Good, Doing Well Panel Discussion with John Morgan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Benjamin Crump, Alex Hilliard, Brian Panish at Litiquest 2018 presented by Morgan & Morgan – Google Headquarters, New York City New York (November 6, 2018)
  • Border Shootings: Mexico and the US may share a 2,000-mile border, but the origins of their legal traditions are oceans part.Texas ALP 2018 Fall Education Conference – in Corpus Christi, Texas (October 12th & 13th, 2018)

Real Results ReaL Justice

  • $13
    Million Settlement
    Catastrophic Injury

    Hilliard Law attorneys won a $13M settlement for a crane truck operator who was paralyzed in a workplace accident.

  • $10
    Million Settlement
    Catastrophic Injury

    While working at a chemical facility, our client was instructed by the owner to climb to the top of a vessel to install spacers on a pipe when he was suddenly and without warning exposed to high concentrations of deadly chemical gases, including carbon monoxide, nitrogen, hydrogen, and hydrogen sulfide.

  • $10.5
    Million Verdict
    Catastrophic Injury

    Our client, a Service Transport commercial truck driver, sustained catastrophic injuries from a fall while making a delivery at BASF’s chemical facility. He subsequently passed away from those injuries.

  • $33
    Million Verdict
    Traumatic Brain Injury

    The Hilliard Law trial team won a $33M product liability case against a golf-car company, involving a golf cart that tipped over on a child causing a severe traumatic brain injury.

  • $18
    Million Verdict*
    Wrongful Death

    After only 3 days of trial, a San Patricio County, Texas jury returned a returned a record-breaking $18 million verdict, including $10 million in punitive damages, on behalf of our client, the widow of a trucker and handyman, who died after falling through a roof.

  • $50
    Million Settlement
    Wrongful Death

    In September 2021, Hilliard Law attorneys secured a $50 Million settlement for the family of a man who died in a commercial trucking accident.

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