About Todd Hunter Jr.
Todd A. Hunter Jr. is a trial lawyer in Corpus Christi, Texas who represents victims in personal injury and wrongful death cases, with a focus on oilfield accidents, trucking and motor vehicle collisions, drunk driving crashes, and unsafe working conditions. He earned a finance degree from Texas A&M University in College Station and graduated from St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio in 2013, and he has spent his career in litigation representing injured workers and families against well-funded opponents. He is licensed in Texas and New Mexico and admitted to practice in the Southern, Northern, Western, and Eastern federal districts of Texas. In 2025, as co-counsel with The Pastrano Law Firm, he won an $831 million jury verdict in Mendez v. Koozies Ice House, a Bexar County dram shop case brought for a motorcyclist catastrophically injured by an overserved underage drunk driver. The award was reported as the largest verdict ever returned by a San Antonio jury.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A Bexar County jury awarded roughly $831 million to Blas Mendez Jr., a longtime Seguin ISD special education behavior specialist left partially paralyzed after his motorcycle hit wreckage left in the road by an 18-year-old drunk driver who had been served at Koozies Icehouse & Grill in New Braunfels. Todd A. Hunter of Hunter Trial Law tried the dram shop case with E. Chevo Pastrano and Ginna G. Pastrano of The Pastrano Law Firm. The award was reported as the largest verdict ever returned by a San Antonio jury, and the bar had already closed by the time it came in, so the family is not expected to collect most, if any, of it.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.