About Kelly Viktorin

Kelly Viktorin is a trial attorney at Armstrong Lee & Baker LLP who is deeply committed to aggressive, diligent representation in serious personal injury and offshore accident cases. She has successfully tried numerous cases and reached significant multi-million dollar settlements for her clients.

Viktorin graduated magna cum laude from South Texas College of Law Houston in 2013, where she earned membership in the Order of Lytae and served as Assistant Articles Editor for the law review. She is licensed to practice in both Texas and Louisiana, as well as federal courts.

Before joining Armstrong Lee & Baker, Viktorin practiced at Arnold & Itkin LLP and other prominent personal injury firms. Her practice focuses on personal injury, admiralty and maritime law, and trucking accidents, with experience spanning automobile accidents, premises liability, medical malpractice, defective drug cases, oil field accidents, and commercial disputes. She has been recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star multiple years running and was named to the Top 100 Premises Liability Settlements in the U.S. in 2018.

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

South Texas College of Law Houston
Juris Doctor (J.D.), 2013

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Texas, admitted 2013
State Bar of Louisiana, admitted 2015
Houston Bar Association
Houston Trial Lawyers Association
Texas Trial Lawyers Association
Houston Young Lawyers Association
Houston Association of Women Attorneys

Awards & recognition

Super Lawyers Rising Star (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025)
Top 100 Premises Liability Settlements in the U.S. (2018)
Houston's Top Lawyers, Personal Injury - H-Texas Magazine (2016)
Lisa Dahm Award for Writing Excellence in Public Policy (2013)
Order of Lytae - South Texas College of Law Houston

Other attorneys at Armstrong Lee & Baker

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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Houston firms

The Lanier Law Firm
The Lanier Law Firm
$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.