If any small firm deserves a Purple Heart for surviving the battle damage the insurance defense practice took during the late 1990s, it’s Dallas’ Johnson & Sylvan. While other firms began weaning themselves off the traditional practice several years ago, tiring of restrictive guidelines placed on them by insurance companies and auditors who scoured their billables, the 10-lawyer firm stuck with it, never complaining.
About 95 percent of Johnson & Sylvan’s practice is the grunt work of insurance defense – motor vehicle cases and premises and general liability claims. It’s work larger firms gave up on long ago.
