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Priyanka Kasnavia Crawford

Houston, TX5 years experienceAdmitted 2021

About Priyanka Kasnavia Crawford

Priyanka Kasnavia Crawford is a personal injury litigator at Armstrong Lee & Baker LLP in Houston, where she represents victims of sexual abuse, wrongful death, workplace injuries, and motor vehicle accidents. A first-generation attorney, she was driven to the legal profession by her parents' emphasis on academic excellence, work ethic, and ethical responsibility.

Priyanka earned her Bachelor of Arts in Strategic Communications magna cum laude from Texas Christian University, with a minor in Criminal Justice, and her Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of Houston Law Center, where she was on the Dean's List and served as Symposium Editor of the Houston Law Review (Board 58). She won the Hippard Novice Mock Trial Best Speaker Award and organized the 25th Annual Frankel Lecture, which attracted over 250 attendees.

Priyanka began her career in complex business and employment litigation at Porter Hedges LLP before shifting to plaintiff-side personal injury work in 2022. She has also practiced at Matthews & Associates and The Buzbee Law Firm. She is admitted to the State Bar of Texas, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and federal district courts across all four Texas 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
Strategic Communications, 2021
Texas Christian University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Texas, admitted 2021 (Bar No. 24125302)
State Bar of U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Southern 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
Houston Bar Association
Houston Young Lawyers Association

Awards & recognition

Hippard Novice Mock Trial Best Speaker Award

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