Reach me before you're a client | John Henry & Associates

Open to anybody, right now

Pick whichever is least trouble for you.

Telephone

Call either office

Both lines ring me. Not a receptionist, not an intake service, not a queue — I am simply told which office you dialled as I pick up. If I am in a hearing it goes to voicemail and I call you back.

(512) 764-6493 · Round Rock

(214) 935-5787 · Dallas

Write to me

Straight to my mailbox. Attach whatever you have or attach nothing and just ask the question you actually want answered.

jhenry@jhenrylaw.com

The file door

Send the paperwork

The fastest way to a useful answer, because I am reading the actual document instead of your description of it. Written read, same working day.

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A time in the diary

Set a meeting

There is no self-service booking page here yet, and I would rather say so than put up a calendar widget that emails me anyway. Call or write and we will put a time down.

Honest about what is not built

And the moment there is a matter

The conversation moves inside the case.

Not because it is tidier. Because a conversation about your case that lives in a personal inbox is a conversation nobody can find in eighteen months, and one that lives in a chat product is a conversation on a vendor’s transcript.

A call, encryptedVideo in your browser — nothing to install. End-to-end encrypted, chosen specifically so the media is unreadable by the company carrying it rather than merely encrypted on the way to them. That is the difference between answering Texas Ethics Opinion 680 with a yes and answering it with a paragraph.
And it is on the recordA call opens a work block when it starts and closes it when it ends, timed from the server rather than from your browser — so a closed laptop cannot leave a call reading as though it were still running. You can see the conversation happened, and how long it took.
Just this firmMe and my people, talking about your matter. Nobody else can read it, and that is enforced by the database rather than by a setting somebody remembers to tick.
Everyone on the caseIncludes opposing counsel and the court if they are participants, and it cannot exclude anybody. That is what makes it safe to write here about a represented party — their own lawyer is necessarily reading it, which is what Rule 4.02 asks for.
One side, with the mediatorConvened by the neutral, and only by the neutral.

There is no private message, and there never will be

A channel that names its own recipients re-opens ex parte contact with the bench, disclosure of caucus traffic under § 154.073, and contact with a represented party under Rule 4.02 — all three at once. So it does not exist here, and the build fails if anybody ever adds one. The ethics wall is a shape, not a policy.