About Emma Coomes

Emma Coomes is an attorney at Armstrong Lee & Baker LLP dedicated to obtaining fair results for injured clients. Originally from The Woodlands, Texas, she combines academic excellence with a strong commitment to justice and ethical responsibility in her personal injury practice.

Coomes earned her J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School, where she served as Managing Senior Editor of the Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy, competed on the Moot Court Trial Team, and received the International Academy of Trial Lawyers Award. She graduated from the University of Alabama in 2020 with a B.A. in International Studies and Spanish.

During her 1L summer, Coomes interned for Judge Beau Miller at the Harris County 190th Civil Court. She is admitted to practice in Texas and before all four U.S. District Courts in Texas (Southern, Northern, Eastern, and Western Districts).

Proven verdicts and settlements at Armstrong Lee & Baker

These results are credited to Armstrong Lee & Baker. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$4.5 millionVerdict

A Texas appeals court affirmed a $4.5 million jury award for Jerry Thomas, an East Texas man who lost his hand at a sawmill in Rusk, holding that the owner never established an employment relationship and could not invoke the workers' compensation exclusive-remedy defense.

Texas Twelfth Court of Appeals (Tyler); trial court: 2nd District Court, Cherokee County · 2026Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
Verdict

Armstrong Lee & Baker won reversal of a federal preemption dismissal, reviving negligence claims brought by the family of a Tyson Foods meatpacking worker who died of COVID-19 after a coworker with a known positive test continued coming to work.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · 2025Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Notre Dame Law School
B.A. in International Studies and Spanish
University of Alabama
Undergraduate, 2020

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Texas
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas
Texas Trial Lawyers Association
Houston Young Lawyers Association

Awards & recognition

International Academy of Trial Lawyers Award

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.