The Laptop the Airline Never Gave Back
Ask Nathan Kurtin why he became a lawyer and he'll tell you about a laptop. Flying home during his senior year of college, studying for finals the whole way, he deplaned and realized the computer — bought with an entire summer's wages — was still in the seatback pocket. He turned around immediately; security wouldn't let him reboard. Airline employees assured him the cleaning crew “has it and will bring it out soon.” It never came out. After repeated airport trips, lost-and-found visits, and conversations that went nowhere, he was told he couldn't even file a claim — the laptop was neither checked baggage nor documented carry-on. His remaining option, they said, was simple: file a lawsuit. Except a college student can't hire a lawyer for more than the laptop is worth. He had a legitimate grievance, a system that had wronged him, and no practical way to seek relief — and that feeling of powerlessness never left him. It's why he became an attorney, and why his practice, from serious injury cases to pro bono help for neighbors and family, is built around one commitment: making sure people with real grievances are never told, in effect, that justice costs more than they have.
Top of the Class, On Purpose
Nathan earned his undergraduate degree at Texas Tech University and his Juris Doctor at UNT Dallas College of Law, where he didn't merely attend — he produced: serving as graduate research assistant on West Academic's A.I. Law in a Nutshell, drafting proposed legislation for the digital-assets sector, publishing scholarly legal work, and taking home the CALI Award for Excellence in Professional Ethics — the top grade in the class, in the subject that matters most for how a lawyer treats the people who trust him. Then he sat for the bar exam and scored a 298: among the very top scores in his law school and the top 10% nationwide. He is licensed by the State Bar of Texas, with admission pending in Oklahoma and in all four federal districts of Texas — Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western. That analytical horsepower now goes to work on injury and business litigation, and it shows up where clients feel it: in vehicle telematics parsed fluently, coverage stacks mapped completely, and demand packages built so thoroughly that insurers pay before a jury ever needs to be seated.
The Client Experience His Reviews Keep Describing
The firm's featured testimonial belongs to Nathan's file. A client he guided through her mother's wrongful death case texted him — unprompted, after midnight — to say that talking with him never felt like talking to a lawyer: “you just always have made me feel good talking to you… you have a Gift at being a lawyer but you also have a gift with the effect you have talking to someone which makes you the best at what you do.” His reply asked her permission to share it, because “this is the nicest thing a client has ever told me” — and her “Yes 🙂” now sits framed on the firm's testimonials page. That exchange is his practice in miniature: clients who feel genuinely heard, communication that lowers the temperature of the hardest season of their lives, and an attorney who treats a thank-you text as the honor it is.
The Work: Prepared Like Trials, Resolved Like Wins
Nathan's caseload runs through the firm's core docket — motor vehicle collisions, commercial vehicle accidents, and wrongful death — with business litigation depth that serves injury clients too, since the defendants behind commercial crashes are businesses with business-lawyer defenses. His results tell the method: $225,000 on a commercial rear-end collision that insurers wrote off because the property damage looked minimal — until the medical causation work said otherwise; $125,000 for a slip and fall at a national hamburger franchise, the kind of premises case chains routinely deny; and a $500,000 wrongful death recovery in a heavily contested comparative-fault fight, where the defense believed blame-shifting would gut the claim and diligence proved them wrong. Every file is prepared as if a jury will hear it — which is exactly why, so far, none has needed to: the cases settle at the courthouse steps, on the strength of preparation the defense can read for itself. Off the clock, he's on a golf course or making art; on it, he's the reason a family in the firm's reviews says they never felt alone. Consultations are free, 24/7, in English and Spanish — and no client pays a fee unless the firm wins.
Education, Admissions & Honors
- Juris Doctor — UNT Dallas College of Law
- Undergraduate degree — Texas Tech University
- Licensed — State Bar of Texas, October 15, 2024 · Bar No. 24144159
- Admission pending — Oklahoma; U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern & Western Districts of Texas
- Bar exam score of 298 — among the top scores in his law school · top 10% nationwide
- CALI Award for Excellence — Professional Ethics (top grade in the class)
- Graduate Research Assistant — West Academic's A.I. Law in a Nutshell
- Author — published scholarly legal articles · legislative drafting, digital-assets sector
- Practice focus — motor vehicle accidents, commercial vehicle accidents, wrongful death, business litigation