Best Law Firms in Texas for Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants

Ahmad, Zavitsanos & Mensing, or AZA, is first and foremost a trial firm. Its more than 60 lawyers bring clients a formidable courtroom record in complex commercial litigation, including energy, trade secret, intellectual property, construction and real estate, environmental, class action, restrictive covenant, catastrophic injury, and business dispute cases. The firm's partners have tried more than 250 cases, and AZA has been in trial nearly every month since 2016.

AZA has earned a coveted rating for its Texas commercial litigation work in every edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business from 2014 through 2026. U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers have named AZA a Tier 1 firm in Commercial Litigation and Appellate in their Best Law Firms rankings, and Best Lawyers in America lists 14 AZA lawyers in Houston Commercial Litigation, more than any other firm. Benchmark Litigation, the definitive guide to America's leading litigation firms and attorneys, has recognized all three of AZA's name partners. Lawdragon has named 11 AZA lawyers to its 500 Leading Litigators in America, and more than half of the firm's attorneys were selected to the 2026 Texas Super Lawyers or Rising Stars lists.

Those rankings rest on results. AZA has secured one of the nation's top 50 plaintiff verdicts ten years running, obtained one of the top 10 IP verdicts in the country in 2025, and won the largest Harris County jury verdict in commercial litigation in 2024. Law360 named AZA a 2026 Regional Powerhouse, one of only five firms in Texas to earn the distinction, and Firm Prospects ranks AZA among the top 25 boutiques in the nation. Texas Lawyer has named AZA Litigation Department of the Year four times and inducted the firm into its Texas Verdicts Hall of Fame. And AZA is among the nation's "Most Feared" law firms, as identified by general counsel and in-house litigators surveyed by BTI Consulting.

Dedication to clients, coupled with the ability to prevail before judges and juries alike, is why general counsel across the country know AZA. Clients including Chevron, LyondellBasell, Halliburton, KBR, TotalEnergies, Transocean, and the Houston Rockets trust the firm with their most difficult matters, and AZA is often hired on the eve of trial, once it has become clear a case must be tried. It is also why corporate counsel have named AZA one of the firms with the best client service among those serving the Fortune 1000. In fact, AZA has been hired many times by the same companies it has beaten at trial.

Bowman and Brooke LLP is a leading law firm with 23 lawyers recognized by Best Lawyers across 12 practice areas. The firm's tenure with Best Lawyers began in 1989. Having lawyers recognized in Best Lawyers' purely peer review process emphasizes the lawyers credibility and reputation for their practice amongst their peers in their practice area and region. It displays professional validation of the legal talent that Bowman and Brooke LLP has on their team. The firm has lawyers recognized in practice areas including: Real Estate Law, Litigation - Intellectual Property, Commercial Litigation, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants and Mediation.

Bowman and Brooke LLP is also ranked by Best Law Firms in 7 practice areas. The Best Law Firms rankings are founded on a time-tested and transparent research process that has remained consistent since Best Lawyers launched it in 2010. Bowman and Brooke LLP has 19 rankings in 7 practices. Echoing their Best Lawyers awards and team of top legal talent.

Chamblee Ryan is a litigation law firm based in Dallas, Texas serving clients throughout the state, as well as nationwide. Few firms try as many cases to a jury as we do. We are able to handle nearly every type of civil lawsuit in state or federal courts across the United States. Since our inception, we have established a reputation for favorable verdicts and settlements. Since 1998, we have tried over 140 jury trials and have represented hospitals and health care professionals, transportation companies, construction entities, food producers and distributors, manufacturers, and numerous other companies or individuals representative of a wide array of industries.   

Litigation today, particularly the high-stakes litigation companies often face, has gotten riskier and more expensive.  As a result, many companies are reticent to see their cases to verdict, and fewer and fewer cases are going to trial.  Chamblee Ryan makes litigation cost-effective and we help eliminate risk.  Trial attorneys are like good pitchers- if you do not pitch routinely, your mechanics can get rusty.  Our attorneys actually try cases and our junior attorneys routinely participate in trials.  Chamblee Ryan attorneys have the skills, and the experience, that our clients need.  

Our founding partners are ranked among the top trial lawyers in Texas, and as a result we are able to offer a small firm approach for big firm clientele. Our reputation as an elite trial firm and our unique work environment has attracted additional attorneys from the top law schools and law firms. The firm’s clients include large national corporations, growing businesses, and esteemed individuals located throughout the United States. Our attorneys regularly engage in litigation in the State of Texas and have appeared in numerous courtrooms throughout the country.  

While we are able to provide a full spectrum of legal services to our clients, we are dedicated primarily to litigation. Our reputation in Dallas-Fort Worth as trial lawyers is well known. Opposing attorneys know we are willing to take a case through verdict. They also know we take a case to verdict for the win. It can be rare for “litigation firms” and “litigation sections” of large law firms to have trial experience and experienced trial lawyers; we have both. Our reputation is defined not only by our willingness to try cases, but by the exceptional results we produce. It’s this same reputation that often helps cases reach a favorable settlement when a jury trial isn’t appropriate based on an examination of the dispute.  

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Well known for leadership and undisputed construction expertise since 1989, Cokinos | Young offers a broad array of legal services that are delivered with a commitment to efficiency, value and client service.

In today’s complex and constantly changing business environment, Cokinos | Young continues to use practical experience and pragmatic approaches to manage serious legal challenges. As we have expanded our capabilities over the years to a true full-service law firm, Cokinos | Young’s commitment to the construction industry has never wavered. Clients benefit from our extensive experience on a wide range of construction projects in both the public and private sectors.

Our commitment to the construction industry includes extensive involvement with many industry related associations. These relationships provide us with the opportunity to contribute to the ongoing evolution of issues impacting both the construction industry at large and the clients we represent, making Cokinos | Young the most innovative and influential firm in the business.

Cokinos | Young has multiple Chambers USA and AV rated attorneys and handles matters throughout the State of Texas as well as on a national and global level. When we first opened our doors 30 years ago, Gregory Cokinos and Marc Young committed to providing our clients the highest level of legal knowledge, value, attentive service, excellence, and a full commitment to obtaining the best possible outcomes. Today, our firm continues to embody that strong foundation of core values and is why we are proud to continue servicing clients that started on the journey with us in 1989.

Crain Caton & James is a century-old, full-service law firm based in Houston, Texas, providing transactional counsel, corporate advisory, regulatory guidance, and trial defense services locally, nationally, and internationally.

The firm concentrates its collective legal capabilities across major practice divisions:

• Corporate & Financial: Banking and financial institution compliance, business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial real estate development.
• Wealth, Trust, & Fiduciary: Estate planning, complex trust structuring, asset protection, and fiduciary or probate litigation.
• Litigation & Appeals: Commercial litigation, construction disputes, labor and employment conflicts, and comprehensive state and federal appellate practice.
• Regulatory & Technical: Environmental law, toxic tort defense, administrative health and safety (EHS) compliance, OSHA mitigation, and intellectual property (IP) protection, including patent and trademark prosecution.

At Howry Breen & Herman, we have a simple mission: to fight and win the biggest and best possible results for our clients through aggressive legal action. For nearly 25 years, we’ve deployed this strategy for individuals and businesses and have obtained full and fair settlements. Our experienced team of trial attorneys has successfully tried of cases across a wide range of practice areas, including personal injury, commercial litigation, product liability, construction litigation, and more. We have extensive courtroom experience, and our Austin attorneys are not afraid to take your case to trial if necessary. Clients come to us for help because they want experienced, aggressive, fearless trial attorneys who will go to court if needed to secure full and fair compensation for real and serious injuries.

Practice Areas

Bicycle Accidents & Injury Litigation

Business & Commercial Litigation

Catastrophic Injury Litigation

Insurance Litigation

Oil & Gas Litigation

Real Estate Litigation

Spinal Cord Injury Litigation

Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation

Jordan, Lynch & Cancienne PLLC is a Houston-based civil trial law firm with a proven courtroom track record in high-stakes litigation nationwide.  

Our lawyers represent clients as both plaintiffs and defendants in commercial disputes, construction matters, products liability, toxic torts, trade secrets, and catastrophic personal injury claims. 

The firm’s partners have tried cases to verdict across the country, including: 

• Texas 
• Louisiana 
• California 
• Oklahoma 
• Delaware 
• Massachusetts 
• Missouri 
• Mississippi 
• New Jersey 
• District of Columbia 

What We Do:

Trial work is our passion and our expertise. We approach each trial with thorough preparation resulting in a nimble and responsive trial team. Our years of courtroom experience mean your case benefits from our considerable trial judgment and instincts and a talent for distilling complex issues for juries.

Solid counsel is the foundation for all that we do. With early input, our approach is to provide you with the right answers through efficient and practical solutions that can effectively guide outcomes.

What We Offer:

The intellectual firepower you need to solve your complex legal problems.

Our Core Values:

• Building Relationships
• Working Collaboratively
• Going Above and Beyond

Working with Us:

We understand the impact and urgency that litigation represents, that’s why we make it a priority to “get to yes” with clients regarding fee structures and litigation costs. Our goal is to add value at every point in the relationship, always putting clients’ interests ahead of our own financial interests.

Kelly Hart & Hallman has been a trusted provider of comprehensive legal services to some of the most innovative and successful businesses, individuals, and governmental entities in the country for over four decades. Our exceptional lawyers and exceptional clients have been instrumental in our continued success. Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP, also known as Kelly Hart, is a leading business-to-business law firm offering a wide range of legal services. With a team of more than 160 attorneys specializing in over 20 substantive areas of the law, we deliver creative and strategic legal solutions to address our clients’ most intricate business challenges.

Our esteemed client base includes Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, individuals, foundations, investor groups, and governmental entities, all of whom rely on us for their legal needs. Our extensive areas of practice encompass administrative law, appellate law, aviation law, banking and finance law, business reorganization and bankruptcy law, corporate and securities law, energy law, environmental law, estate planning and probate, government enforcement and investigation, health care law, intellectual property and technology law, labor and employment law, litigation, nonprofit organizations, oil and gas/energy law, public finance law, real estate law, tax law, transportation law, and water law.

At Kelly Hart, we are committed to delivering exceptional legal representation and value to our clients, utilizing our depth of knowledge and experience across various legal disciplines.

I am a full-time mediator based in San Antonio, Texas. Thank you for visiting my website and for taking the time to learn more about my background and approach.

In late 2021, I stepped away from an active trial practice—and occasional service as a mediator—that I had maintained for more than 33 years to establish a full-time mediation practice. Over the last 20+ years of that work, a running joke among colleagues was, “What type of trouble are you dealing with this time?” That comment reflected the wide range of matters I handled. I frequently worked on cases involving death and serious injury, including product liability claims, while also maintaining an active docket of commercial, real estate, construction, and insurance disputes. My work in these areas led to listings under Product Liability and Commercial Litigation by Best Lawyers in America and recognition in a poll of San Antonio attorneys published in Scene in SA magazine. Whether right or wrong, I have always believed that this variety encouraged continuous learning and helped me avoid becoming too comfortable. It also offered meaningful perspective on addressing the complex issues parties face in litigation, including identifying paths to resolution, anticipating challenges, and developing practical ways to move past them.

Most cases resolve before trial. From that standpoint, the ability to guide parties toward resolution is just as important as trial experience, even though it often receives less attention. Looking back, I am grateful that clients frequently commented on my approach to resolving disputes. Assisting parties in reaching resolution is work I value deeply, and it is now my sole professional focus. I welcome the opportunity to serve as your mediator and to help facilitate a process aimed at achieving resolution and finality in a setting where you and your clients remain in control of the outcome.

Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom is a leading law firm with 21 lawyers recognized by Best Lawyers across 12 practice areas. The firm's tenure with Best Lawyers began in 2006. Having lawyers recognized in Best Lawyers' purely peer review process emphasizes the lawyers credibility and reputation for their practice amongst their peers in their practice area and region. It displays professional validation of the legal talent that Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom has on their team. The firm has lawyers recognized in practice areas including: Commercial Litigation, Appellate Practice, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, Litigation - Construction and Litigation - Insurance.

Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom is also ranked by Best Law Firms in 10 practice areas. The Best Law Firms rankings are founded on a time-tested and transparent research process that has remained consistent since Best Lawyers launched it in 2010. Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom has 18 rankings in 10 practices. Echoing their Best Lawyers awards and team of top legal talent.

We are a group of experienced attorneys who have come together to form a law firm focused on your needs. Our goal is to be your go-to resource at every stage of the legal process, bringing deeper experience, deeper commitment and deeper insights to help solve the most complex issues. 

In consultation or in the courtroom, we aggressively pursue your best interests. When problems arise, we get to the bottom of them, quickly and efficiently. When you have a question, we’ll get you an answer. While some firms simply skim the surface, we dive deeper to learn more about you, your business and your goals. Finding solutions is easy, as your partner, our job is to find solutions that are right for you. 

We have the personality, style and approach to fit the cultures of the businesses we represent, and we’re ready to partner with you.

Ability, hard work, and perseverance are hallmarks of Wright Close Barger & Guzman, and our clients can expect top-notch representation every step of the way. With their extensive trial and appellate experience, our team of lawyers can take your case from start to finish. Throughout Texas, we have tried to a successful conclusion cases involving a variety of practice areas, including catastrophic personal injury, insurance coverage, intellectual property, oil and gas, product defects, commercial disputes, and trade secrets.

We also assist other lawyers at trial by providing expertise in pre-trial motions, research on special evidence problems, and the critical work on the court’s charge to the jury. Wright Close Barger & Guzman is widely respected for its appellate experience, and we have successfully handled appeals before federal and state appellate courts, including the Supreme Court of Texas, the intermediate state courts of appeals, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Some “litigation” lawyers never see the inside of a courtroom. Not so at Wright Close Barger & Guzman. The firm handles complex civil trial and appellate work for clients across the state, calling upon their extensive expertise to achieve favorable resolutions in cases involving catastrophic personal injury, insurance coverage, intellectual property, oil and gas, product defects, commercial disputes, arbitration and mediation, and trade secrets, among others. The firm also assists other firms and attorneys with pre-trial motions, special evidence problems, challenges to expert witnesses, and the critical work on the court’s charge to the jury.

The firm’s diversity of experience provides the depth required for its wide range of successes. Our attorneys have tried and appealed complex cases all across Texas for more than 30 years. Our team has been hand-picked from among the best and the brightest.

Many of our firm’s members are Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization

Civil Trial Law: Thomas Wright, Howard Close, Randy Owens.

Civil Appellate Law: Thomas Wright, Jessica Barger, Brian Cathey, Russ Hollenbeck, Marie Jamison, Jim Marrow, Brad Snead, Rachel Stinson, Natasha Taylor, Heidi Gumienny, and Kelley Clark Morris.

Several members including our founding partners have been selected by their peers each year as among The Best Lawyers in America® (Tom Wright, Howard Close, Jessica Barger, Wanda McKee Fowler, Eva Guzman, Russ Hollenbeck, Andy Love, Jim Marrow, Raffi Melkonian, Randall Owens, Tod Phillips, Brad Snead, Rachel Stinson, and Natasha Taylor). 

Wright Close Barger & Guzman is ranked among the Best Law Firms with a National Tier 1 ranking in Appellate, by U.S. News and Best Lawyers. The firm also has Tier 1 rankings in Houston for Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Defense, Insurance Litigation, Trusts & Estates Litigation and Appellate Practice.