Jeffrey H. Cluff

Jeff grew up in El Paso, Texas where he saw the financial struggles and unique challenges many people faced growing up in a border community. This awareness was further heightened by the fact that his dad was born and raised in Mexico and had dual citizenship. Jeff’s dad grew up in the mountains of Chihuahua, Mexico where his family ran a little country store, worked odd jobs, and learned to make do with what they had.  His dad moved to El Paso after high school and worked at a copper smelting company where he was up before the sun every morning to be at work.  His mom taught him the importance of helping other people and doing the right thing. After graduating high school, Jeff continued his education at Brigham Young University. After his first year of college, Jeff took two years off to help others on a church mission in eastern Oklahoma and the Ozark region of Arkansas. Jeff returned to Brigham Young University where he worked part-time jobs to pay for school while he finished his bachelor’s degree in history. While at school he was lucky enough to meet and convince his wife, Nicole, to marry him. After finishing at Brigham Young, Jeff went to law school at Texas Tech University.

After his first year of law school, Jeff had one of best GPA’s in his class and was invited to be on the Texas Tech Law Review. That summer he and his wife had their first child. In order to support his growing family, Jeff began working with Sam’s firm. During his remaining two years of law school, Jeff served as an associate editor on the Texas Tech Law Review and on the board of the Texas Tech Legal Research Board all while putting in 20-30 hours a week at work.

After his second year of law school, Jeff did a summer internship for an insurance defense firm in his hometown of El Paso, Texas. One day Jeff was asked to sit in on a meeting where some of the lawyers were discussing a case where a working man had been killed on a construction project where a wall had fallen on him. The entire meeting was spent discussing ways to blame the man who had been killed so his widow and children would not receive any of the insurance money that could be used to help support the family and put the children through school. “I knew at that moment what side I wanted to be on. I wanted to be fighting for families and people, not insurance companies.” With this determination in mind, Jeff returned to Lubbock to continue working with Sam’s firm and finish law school.

After graduating and passing the bar in 1999, Jeff began working full-time with Sam’s firm representing people who had been injured and families who had lost loved ones. One of the greatest satisfactions Jeff receives is to help people who are not being treated fairly by insurance companies. An injury can be devastating to those people whose lives are affected. Working folks who are used to having their health to put food on the table and pay the bills rely on their ability to bring home a pay check in order to provide for their family. When a company or an individual makes a mistake leading to an injury or death, insurance should step in and make it right.