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About Major Pirtle
Major Pirtle was born and raised in Houston in a family of trial lawyers. He earned his B.A. in Political Science summa cum laude from the University of Houston and his J.D. magna cum laude from South Texas College of Law Houston in 2025, where he won the American Association of Justice National Mock Trial Competition, the first time South Texas College of Law won that award in 20 years. He was inducted into the Order of the Barristers. Prior to joining Abraham Watkins, Major worked for several prominent personal injury firms. He focuses on workplace injuries, refinery explosions, wrongful death, electrocutions, shootings, and trucking cases.
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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