About Kathleen Banks

Kathleen "Katie" Banks is a personal injury attorney at Armstrong Lee & Baker LLP in Houston. Born and raised in Houston's Klein area, she attended Texas A&M University for her undergraduate degree before returning to Houston to attend the University of Houston Law Center, where she served as Articles Editor for the Houston Law Review.

After graduating from law school, Banks spent approximately ten years working for the defense bar, gaining deep insight into how insurance companies and defendants approach litigation. She then transitioned to plaintiff representation, bringing that defense-side experience to bear on behalf of injured clients. Her practice encompasses wrongful death, motor vehicle and 18-wheeler accidents, premises liability, products liability, and work injury cases.

Banks is admitted to practice in Texas and before multiple federal courts, including the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and all four U.S. District Courts in Texas (Southern, Northern, Western, and Eastern 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 Houston Law Center
B.A.
Texas A&M University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Texas
State Bar of U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
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, Western District of Texas
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas

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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Houston firms

The Lanier Law Firm
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$4.85 Billion Vioxx MDL Settlement for Heart-Attack and Stroke Victims
The Buzbee Law Firm
The Buzbee Law Firm
$1.1 Billion Verdict for Child Left Brain-Damaged by Oil-Fortune Heir
Arnold & Itkin
Arnold & Itkin
$2.07 billion · Cobb County Jury Awards John Barnes $2.065 Billion in Roundup Cancer Trial
Williams Hart & Boundas
Williams Hart & Boundas
$15.3 billion · Texas Recovers $15.3 Billion From Tobacco Industry in Landmark 1998 Settlement
The Ammons Law Firm LLP
The Ammons Law Firm LLP
$812 Million Verdict for Family of Worker Killed in Pecos Chemical Plant Explosion, Part of $1.6 Billion

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