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About Kayla Haynes
Kayla A. Haynes was born and raised in Spring, Texas. She earned her B.S. in Nutritional Sciences from Texas A&M University and her J.D. from South Texas College of Law Houston in 2024, where she received the Dean's Merit Scholarship, the CALI Excellence for the Future Award for highest grade in Legal Research and Writing, and served as Associate Editor for the South Texas Law Review. She interned with the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office and served as a student attorney for the Domestic Violence Pro Bono Legal Clinic.
Kayla joined Abraham Watkins as a law clerk in her second year of law school. At the firm, her practice focuses on personal injury, automobile accidents, workplace injuries, explosions, products liability, and wrongful death. She is admitted in Texas and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Abraham Watkins
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A Harris County jury found ExxonMobil 100% responsible for a July 2019 explosion at its Baytown olefins plant caused by decades-ignored popcorn polymer buildup, awarding five injured workers $28,591,000 after three weeks of trial.
A Harris County jury awarded about $21 million to Santiago Arias, a construction worker paralyzed from the chest down after falling roughly 20 feet at a Houston job site where his employer had provided no fall-protection equipment or safety training.
A federal jury awarded Kimberly Curtis $2 million in compensatory and $30 million in punitive damages after a sliding barn door fell on her at a Manhattan Hilton Garden Inn and defendants were found to have willfully destroyed evidence; a judge later cut the punitive award to $10 million.
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