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About Lena Laurenzo
Lena B. Laurenzo is a third-generation Houstonian and granddaughter of Houston restaurant icon Ninfa Laurenzo. She graduated cum laude from Texas Tech University in 2010 with a B.A. in Psychology. After working at Abraham Watkins as a file clerk and legal assistant, she attended South Texas College of Law Houston, graduating in 2015 as an inductee of the Order of Barristers. Lena's practice is 100% personal injury and maritime law, including catastrophic injury cases, 18-wheeler crashes, Jones Act and general maritime cases, wrongful death, workplace injuries, and product liability.
At her first trial, she co-led a complex wrongful death case that resulted in a $17,720,000 jury verdict. At a subsequent trial, she co-led a product liability wrongful death case that resulted in a unanimous Mississippi jury verdict of $9,864,571. She was named to the Super Lawyers list in 2026 after nine consecutive years on the Texas Rising Stars list (2017-2025). She serves on the board of the Ninfa Laurenzo Scholarship Fund and is an adjunct professor of Trial Advocacy at the University of Houston Law Center.
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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