Recovered
$4.3M
In a dispute between former spouses over a family business.
2015
Texas trial lawyers · Round Rock & Dallas · Since 2006
Strike the evidence.Win the motion.Collect the judgment.
John Henry & Associates tries cases for business owners, builders, lenders, restaurant groups and injured people in Texas state and federal courts — contracts, partnerships, real estate, collections, bankruptcy and car wrecks.
01 What we handle
Cases that end up in front of a judge.
We are a litigation firm. Every matter is handled as though it will be tried, because that is what makes the other side settle on fair terms — or lose.
01
Business & contract disputes
Unpaid invoices, broken agreements, guaranties and lender fights — brought or defended.
Read more02Partner & owner disputes
Diverted money, freeze-outs, deadlocks and business divorces among partners and members.
Read more03Construction & real estate
Defending builders, and representing owners in title, lease and condemnation fights.
Read more04Collecting a judgment
Turnover orders, receivers, garnishment, and enforcing Texas judgments in other states.
Read more05Restaurants & hospitality
Leases, dram shop defense, lenders, and Chapter 11 for groups of one location to a hundred.
Read more06Bankruptcy & restructuring
Chapter 11 reorganizations and sales, and the litigation that happens inside a bankruptcy.
Read more07Car & truck accidents
Injury claims for people hurt in car and truck wrecks — handled by trial lawyers.
Read more02 The record
Nearly twenty years of results, in the public record.
Recoveries for clients who were owed, and defenses that ended with the plaintiff taking nothing. Recent orders are published in full on this site.
Recovered
$4M
Cash and real property recovered from a partner for embezzlement and breach of fiduciary duty in a construction and ranching company.
2010
Recovered
$3M
Across forty breach-of-contract cases, including enforcing a Texas judgment in Louisiana.
2015–16
Settlement
$600K
Condemnation proceedings, Buda, Texas.
2026
Defense
Take nothing
Judgment that the plaintiff recover nothing on a $4 million contract and tortious-interference claim.
2011
Defense
Dismissed
Every cause of action dismissed against a restaurant client facing a $6 million dram shop claim.
2022
Chapter 11
15 locations
Reorganization and sale of Twisted Root Burger Co. and Truck Yard for the founder, location by location.
2020–21
Recovered
$1.5M
In a real-property ownership and probate dispute.
2008
Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not predict a similar outcome. Confidential matters are described without their terms.
Every matter, year by year →03 How we work
Cases are won on the record, long before trial.
i.
Read everything
The contracts, the correspondence, every filing. Most disputes turn on a document somebody stopped reading.
ii.
Attack the evidence
Evidence has rules. In each of our three most recent summary-judgment wins, the other side’s declarations or exhibits were stricken before the motion was decided.
iii.
Finish it
A judgment matters when it is paid. Turnover orders, receivers, garnishment and enforcement in other states are part of the job.
04 Litigation, rebuilt
A trial practice that runs on its own software.
We built the tools this firm litigates with: a secure portal where clients and co-counsel work on the file, a library of Texas decisions read every court day, and analysis that turned hundreds of loan contracts into a usury case in a live Chapter 11.
- 438loan obligations across 189 lenders reconstructed from the original contracts, each with its own cure notice and limitations date.
- 2FAEvery client and co-counsel sign-in to the case portal requires a second factor.
The library reads the Texas courts every day. Checking when it last did…
Speaking · 6 November 2026
Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in an Actual Complex Chapter 11 Proceeding in 2026
— or, How to Hire Special Counsel to Handle the Stuff in This Speech
Bankruptcy Bench Bar Conference, Eastern District of Texas · Westin Dallas Stonebriar
About the talk, and hiring the counsel in it →
05 The lawyer
John P. Henry
John Henry has practiced civil litigation in Texas since 2006: contract, real property, construction, partnership and fiduciary disputes, restaurant and restructuring work, and the collection of what was won. His cases run from county courts at law to federal district court and the bankruptcy court.
He founded John Henry & Associates in Round Rock, with a second office in Dallas, and built the firm’s own case software.
Licensed in Texas · Bar No. 24055655State and federal courts
Offices in Round Rock and Dallas
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