Scott Armstrong

Proven Verdicts
Houston, TX12 years experienceAdmitted 2014

About Scott Armstrong

Scott Armstrong is the Managing Partner and co-founder of Armstrong Lee & Baker LLP in Houston, Texas, where he leads a team of over 20 lawyers in catastrophic injury and complex personal injury litigation. He has served as lead counsel in cases resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars recovered for his clients.

Scott earned his Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of North Texas and his Juris Doctor magna cum laude from the University of Houston Law Center in 2014. During law school he was Chief Articles Editor of the Houston Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif, Order of the Barons, and National Order of Scribes.

Scott co-founded Armstrong Lee & Baker in 2017 after practicing at Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto & Aziz and Arnold & Itkin LLP. He currently serves his third term on the State Bar of Texas Pattern Jury Charges Oversight Committee. He has been recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star every year from 2017 to 2026, named to the National Trial Lawyers Top 100, and selected for the 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers list.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$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
English Literature, 2014
University of North Texas
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Texas, admitted 2014
State Bar of U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
State Bar of U.S. Tenth 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, Eastern District of Wisconsin
Houston Bar Association
Houston Trial Lawyers Association
Texas Trial Lawyers Association
Houston Young Lawyers Association
State Bar of Texas Pattern Jury Charges Oversight Committee

Awards & recognition

Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers (2026)
Super Lawyers Rising Star (2017-2026)
National Trial Lawyers Top 100
Rising Star Award - University of Houston Law Center
Order of the Coif
Order of the Barons
National Order of Scribes

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$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.