Jonathan Barlow: Building Henderson’s Largest Law Firm Through Merger
Jonathan Barlow practiced law in Henderson for years before recognizing that the city’s legal market had outgrown the solo-practitioner model that had long defined it. In 2013, Barlow and his partner Jordan Flake merged their practice with Richards & Associates, a firm with its own established client base in the Henderson and Green Valley corridors. The combination created Clear Counsel Law Group — an entity large enough to handle complex litigation, estate planning, and personal injury cases while retaining the client relationships that both predecessor firms had built over the previous decade. The merger was not a corporate acquisition; it was two practices that served overlapping communities deciding they could do more under a shared roof than they could apart.
Clear Counsel operates from 1671 West Horizon Ridge Parkway, Suite 200, in Henderson — a location that places the firm within the commercial core of the Green Valley and Anthem residential corridors. The practice covers personal injury, estate planning, probate, business formation, and real estate transactions. Clear Counsel also operates under the name Full Throttle Law for its personal injury division, a branding decision that separates the high-volume injury work from the firm’s transactional and estate practices. The team has expanded steadily since the 2013 founding, and the firm now fields multiple attorneys across its practice areas, making it one of the most broadly staffed legal operations based in Henderson rather than on the Las Vegas Strip corridor where most of the valley’s larger firms concentrate.
Clear Counsel Law Group in the Las Vegas Valley
Henderson has historically been underserved by mid-size law firms. Most of the valley’s legal firepower clusters along the I-15 corridor between downtown Las Vegas and Summerlin, leaving Henderson residents to drive twenty or thirty minutes for representation that should be available locally. Clear Counsel Law Group filled that gap when it formed in 2013, and its growth since then reflects the broader maturation of Henderson as a city with its own professional services infrastructure rather than a suburb dependent on Las Vegas for everything beyond retail and dining. The Horizon Ridge Parkway office is positioned at the crossroads of Henderson’s fastest-growing residential areas, and the firm’s mix of estate, injury, and business law mirrors the needs of a community that has moved well past the bedroom-community stage.
- Owner
- Jonathan Barlow
- Founded
- 2013
- Address
- 1671 W Horizon Ridge Pkwy, Ste 200, Henderson, NV 89012
- Phone
- (702) 476-5900
- Website
- clearcounsel.com