J. Hunter Craft
Hunter Craft graduated as the Casey Presidential Scholar from Baylor University with a B.B.A. in Finance, and earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence from Baylor University School of Law. He began his legal career in litigation defense of business and catastrophic injury disputes at Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P. (now Norton Rose Fulbright LLP). He then refocused his career to advocate for those harmed by others, joining Watts Law Firm, later becoming Watts Guerra Craft. In 2013, after nearly 14 years in the legal profession, he founded Craft Law Firm, P.C., and continues to represent victims in wrongful death and personal injury cases. He has litigated on behalf of clients in more than 30 states in cases against more than 50 different Fortune 500 and Global 500 companies.
Focusing primarily on transportation and trucking, workplace, product liability, and other catastrophic injury litigation, Mr. Craft has represented victims against large corporate defendants including Alcoa, Arkos, Autoliv, Axip Energy, BF Goodrich, BMW, Bridgestone/Firestone, Chrysler, Chubb, Coastal Corporation, Continental Tire, Cooper Tire, Cummins, Daewoo Motors, Discount Tire, Dorel Juvenile Products, Ford, General Electric, General Motors, Gilbane, Goodyear, Hilcorp Energy, Home Depot, Honda, International Truck & Engine, Isuzu, Land Rover, Mattel, Mazda, Michelin, Mitsubishi, Newmar Corporation, Nissan, Pioneer, Schlumberger, Tire Rack, Titan Tire, Toyota, Trican, TRW, TXU, Union Pacific, Volkswagen, Williams, Witco/Chemtura, and Yokohama Tires, among others.
Mr. Craft has twice been named the Best Lawyers® Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs “Lawyer of the Year” in Houston (2020, 2022), and has been recognized as one of The Best Lawyers in America© since 2015. At the age of 29, he was elected a “Texas Super Lawyer” for the first time, making him the youngest such recipient in the history of the award, a designation he has now received more than 10 times. He was later chosen as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers and the Top 40 Under 40 by The National Trial Lawyers and America’s Top 100 High Stake Litigators (2020) by America’s Top 100 Attorneys. Mr. Craft has multiple verdicts included in both the Texas and U.S. Top 100 list, and is a member of the Texas Verdicts Hall of Fame.
While he has been honored to receive numerous other professional awards and recognitions, he cares most of all for his clients, and the results he is able to obtain for them.
- Casey Presidential Scholar
- Athletic Director’s Honor Roll Award Recipient
- Harvey M. Richey Moot Court Society
- Phi Delta Phi Honors Society
- Order of Barristers
- Inaugural Student Member – Abner V. McCall Inn of Court
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- “Cross-Examination: Live from the Civil District Courthouse” Houston Trial Lawyers Association
- “Setting the Stage with Your Opening Statement” Trial Advocacy College of Texas
- “Step II: Confronting the Corporate Representative at Trial” Texas Trial Lawyers Association Annual Midyear CLE
- “Proving Damages in a Catastrophic Injury Case” Houston Bar Association CLE Seminar, Houston, Texas
- “Deposing the Corporate Representative with an Eye on Trial” San Antonio Trial Lawyers Association Annual Real World Seminar: Trial Mechanics and Beyond, San Antonio, Texas
- “Maximizing Recovery in Catastrophic Injury Litigation” Permian Basin Trial Lawyers Association CLE, Horseshoe Bay, Texas
- “Fundamentals and Secrets of Deposing a Corporate Representative” Texas Trial Lawyers Association
- “Big Cases in the Big Easy: Commercial Vehicles and Workplace Injuries” CLE New Orleans, Louisiana
- “Discovering and Utilizing Electronic Data in a Wireless World” Permian Basin Trial Lawyers Association CLE Horseshoe Bay, Texas
- “Emerging Trends in Accident Reconstruction” Texas Trial Lawyers Association Conference on Expert Witnesses and Voir Dire, Horseshoe Bay, Texas
- “The Money You’re Missing, and How to Find It” Permian Basin Trial Lawyers Association
- “Automotive Products Liability” Southern Trial Lawyers Conference New Orleans, Louisiana
- “Pharmaceutical Products Liability: Pradaxa and Prompt Pay Litigation” Texas Trial Lawyers Association Las Vegas CLE Las Vegas, Nevada
- “So You Want To Be A Lawyer?” Houston Bar Association Houston, Texas
- “Personal Injury Trial Law” Houston Bar Association Houston, Texas
- “The State of Brain Injury Litigation: Litigation Trends, New Theories of Liability, and Emerging Defenses” American Conference Institute: Brain Injury Litigation Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- “Trial Procedure” State Bar of Texas Federal Court Practice Course Houston, Texas
- “Avoiding the Great Daubert Fraud: How to Properly Use and Resist Expert Challenges” Texas Trial Lawyers Association Las Vegas CLE Las Vegas, Nevada
- “Striking a Tire Expert” Attorneys Information Exchange Group Orlando, Florida
- “The People v. Harold Herzlich” Attorneys Information Exchange Group Houston, Texas
- “Chemical Products and Toxic Torts: Handling the Media When a Catastrophic Event Occurs” American Bar Association Houston, Texas
- “Rollover Activated Air Curtains: A Look at Ford Motor Company” Attorneys Information Exchange Group San Francisco, California
- “Recent Experiences in Automotive Product Liability Trials” Attorneys Information Exchange Group Fall Conference, San Francisco, California
- “Combating Ford Motor Company in Trial” Attorneys Information Exchange Group Napa, California
- “Strategies and Secrets for Discovery in Automotive Product Liability Cases” Attorneys Information Exchange Group Las Vegas, Nevada
- “Recognizing and Preserving Evidence in Automotive Cases” Texas Trial Lawyers Association CLE Port Aransas, Texas
- “Is Your Car Wreck a Products Case?” Texas Trial Lawyers Association Port Aransas, Texas
- “Accident Reconstruction and Physical Evidence” State Bar of Texas Dallas, Texas
- “Admitting and Excluding Evidence” University of Texas CLE, Houston, Texas
