Jim Rodman
The only lawyer on this site whose register answers every fee question yes. Contingency, flat, hourly, payment plans and sliding scale — all five. He is also board certified, licensed in Colorado and DC, and at thirty-nine years the longest-serving lawyer in Austin.
The bar record
We read Jim Rodman in the State Bar of Texas Find a Lawyer directory — the same register behind every Houston, Dallas and Austin listing on this site. The practice, school, fee and language rows are supplied by the lawyer; the Bar publishes them without verifying them, and prints in words where a lawyer has supplied nothing.
Texas answers, and asks more than anyone else. The State Bar prints No Public Disciplinary History as a sentence — not a blank like Washington, not a missing field like Pennsylvania. And it asks about eight things no other register on this site asks about at once: practice areas, law school, fee options, languages, other states, courts of admittance, firm size and services provided. Where a lawyer declines, it prints the refusal in words — None Reported By Attorney — so you can tell a question nobody asked from one nobody answered. One record in this city says that five times.
These nine were held once, and the hold is why this listing exists in the form it does. Nine Austin lawyers — this one among them — first reached us with an entry from austinbar.org, the Austin Bar Association’s find-a-lawyer: a voluntary membership directory with no disciplinary field of any kind. We did not publish them. The State Bar of Texas records have since been supplied, and the comparison settled the question: all nine read No Public Disciplinary History — the field the directory does not have — and on top of that, three of the nine licence dates in the directory were wrong and four addresses disagreed, with the regulator matching the lawyer’s own website on three of them. The wait produced a better record, not merely a slower one.
What the record shows
His record answers all five fee options with Yes: contingency, flat fees, hourly rate, payment plans and sliding scale. Nobody else on this site does. Eight of the fourteen Austin records answer None Reported By Attorney. Texas is the only one of the twelve registers here that asks the question at all, which is what makes a complete answer worth pointing at.Verified
He is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization — the credential Drew Gibbs’s biography tells readers to go and verify. Four of the fourteen Austin lawyers hold it.Verified
The register lists Other States Licensed: Colorado and the District of Columbia, and courts of admittance including the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Colorado District Court.Verified
His practice areas include Oil, Gas and Energy Resources — the only entry of its kind across two hundred and twenty-eight listings. His biography says his undergraduate degree was in petroleum land management, which fits.Verified
Two things on this record do not line up, and we print both. The address of record is 3303 Hillview Road; his own website gives a Balcones Drive address, and the association directory gave the Balcones one too. And the licence date we were first given, 1 November 1986, is wrong — the State Bar says 7 November 1986.Verified
The register itself contains a typo: the header reads Rodman Law Office and the practice-information block reads Rodman Law Ofice. It is the regulator’s own record and we reproduce what it says.Verified
What the firm says
His biography gives two different lengths of experience for the same career — 13 years in one passage and 18+ years in another — while the register makes it thirty-nine years since admission. We use the register’s date.Reported
He says he handles insurance and employment matters alongside injury work, which the register’s five practice areas support.Reported
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What we haven’t checked
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