Where is your McKinney office?

Our office is at 5900 S Lake Forest Dr, Suite 200, McKinney, TX 75070, in the county seat where Collin County civil cases are heard at the Russell A. Steindam Courts. Free parking on site, and we'll happily come to you if you're recovering from a serious injury.

Will my McKinney accident case be heard in Collin County court?

Almost always, yes — if the crash happened in Collin County, that's where the case is filed. Collin County's civil district courts are at the Russell A. Steindam Courts complex on Bloomdale. Kent has practiced in front of these judges for years and knows the local procedures, mediator preferences, and jury tendencies that out-of-county lawyers don't.

I was hit on US-380 / Highway 5 — does that change anything?

Highway 380 east-west and SH-5 north-south are McKinney's most reconstructed corridors and unfortunately also our most-trafficked crash zones, especially around the Lake Forest, Custer, and Hardin overpasses. We've handled crashes at most of these intersections — local context matters when negotiating with insurance adjusters who know exactly how dangerous a given turn is.

What if I was hurt at one of the McKinney corporate campuses or new developments?

McKinney's growth — Craig Ranch, Adriatica, the rebuild of Highway 5, the new corporate park along 121 — has created a lot of mixed-use construction sites and contractor traffic. Workplace and premises injuries on construction projects are common; many involve subcontractor relationships that mean you may have a third-party claim in addition to (or instead of) workers' comp.

McKinney, Texas · Collin County

McKinney Personal Injury Lawyer — based here, tried here.

Kent Starr's office is on S Lake Forest Dr in McKinney, the county seat where Collin County injury cases are tried. If you were hurt anywhere in McKinney — on US-380, on Lake Forest, in a parking lot at Stonebridge Ranch, on a construction site near Craig Ranch — Kent tries cases, and he prepares every file as if it's going to a Collin County jury.

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Office: 5900 S Lake Forest Dr, Suite 200 · McKinney, TX 75070

Local Context

What makes a McKinney injury case different.

McKinney has been one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States for the better part of a decade. That growth has reshaped the way personal injury cases play out here, and the changes matter to your case in ways that are easy to miss.

First, the roads. US-380 east of Custer Road has been under construction or reconfiguration for years. The temporary lane shifts, new traffic signals, and unfamiliar intersections at Stonebridge, Lake Forest, and Hardin Boulevard have turned that corridor into a serial accident zone. Drivers used to the old configuration get rear-ended; drivers new to McKinney misread the work-zone signage. Sorting out liability often requires pulling TxDOT construction-zone records — something we know how to do because we do it routinely — the kind of work a seasoned McKinney car accident lawyer does on every file. Most McKinney crash victims are taken to Medical City McKinney or Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – McKinney, with some routed to Methodist McKinney Hospital. Kent has handled cases stemming from injuries first treated at all three.

Second, the courthouse. Civil cases in McKinney are heard at the Russell A. Steindam Courts, 2100 Bloomdale Road. Collin County juries differ from Dallas County juries in measurable ways — verdict patterns, medical-expense credibility, attitudes toward soft-tissue injury claims. A lawyer who tries cases here knows what evidence resonates and what doesn't. McKinney sits at the center of our Collin County personal injury lawyer practice, which covers the whole county.

Third, the development pattern. McKinney's growth means a lot of construction — Craig Ranch, the ongoing 121 corridor, the renovation of historic downtown. Construction means subcontractors, layered insurance, and OSHA-relevant scenarios. Workplace injury claims in McKinney and premises claims here often involve third-party liability that an out-of-area firm misses.

Russell A. Steindam Courts

2100 Bloomdale Rd, McKinney

Collin County civil district courts, where McKinney accident cases are filed and tried.

Our office

5900 S Lake Forest Dr, Suite 200

Free parking on site. We come to you if you're recovering and can't travel.

Crash hotspots we see

US-380 at Custer · US-75 / SH-121 interchange · Eldorado Pkwy at Lake Forest · Stonebridge Dr at Virginia Pkwy · SRT/121 at Alma.

Coverage radius

We handle cases throughout Collin County and the surrounding DFW counties — Dallas, Denton, Rockwall, Tarrant, Kaufman, and more.

McKinney Car Accidents

Car wrecks are the cases we see most in McKinney.

The majority of calls we field as a personal injury attorney in McKinney, Texas start the same way: a crash on US-380, US-75, or the SH-121 corridor. Rear-end collisions in work-zone traffic, T-bones at Custer and Eldorado, and merge-lane wrecks where US-75 meets the Sam Rayburn Tollway make up the bulk of the file.

Liability in these wrecks is rarely as clean as the first police report suggests — work-zone signage, TxDOT lane-history records, and intersection-camera footage often tell a different story. That investigation is the everyday work of a McKinney car accident lawyer, and it is where a trial record built since 1997 changes what the insurance company is willing to pay.

Practice Areas

The cases we handle in McKinney

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FAQ

McKinney injury cases — what people ask

Where is your McKinney office?

Our office is at 5900 S Lake Forest Dr, Suite 200, McKinney, TX 75070, in the county seat where Collin County civil cases are heard at the Russell A. Steindam Courts. Free parking on site, and we'll happily come to you if you're recovering from a serious injury.
Will my McKinney accident case be heard in Collin County court?

Almost always, yes — if the crash happened in Collin County, that's where the case is filed. Collin County's civil district courts are at the Russell A. Steindam Courts complex on Bloomdale. Kent has practiced in front of these judges for years and knows the local procedures, mediator preferences, and jury tendencies that out-of-county lawyers don't.
I was hit on US-380 / Highway 5 — does that change anything?

Highway 380 east-west and SH-5 north-south are McKinney's most reconstructed corridors and unfortunately also our most-trafficked crash zones, especially around the Lake Forest, Custer, and Hardin overpasses. We've handled crashes at most of these intersections — local context matters when negotiating with insurance adjusters who know exactly how dangerous a given turn is.
What if I was hurt at one of the McKinney corporate campuses or new developments?

McKinney's growth — Craig Ranch, Adriatica, the rebuild of Highway 5, the new corporate park along 121 — has created a lot of mixed-use construction sites and contractor traffic. Workplace and premises injuries on construction projects are common; many involve subcontractor relationships that mean you may have a third-party claim in addition to (or instead of) workers' comp.