About Shruti Modi

Shruti Modi is an associate attorney at Armstrong Lee & Baker LLP in Houston, where she represents individuals who have been seriously injured or killed due to negligence. A first-generation American whose parents immigrated from India, Shruti has recovered over $12 million in settlements and judgments as lead counsel within her first two years of practice.

Shruti earned her Bachelor of Science in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Arizona State University and her Juris Doctor magna cum laude from South Texas College of Law Houston, graduating in the top 10 percent of her class. During law school she served as Senior Articles Editor of the South Texas Law Review, was inducted into the Order of the Lytae and Phi Delta Phi Legal Honor Society, received a CALI Award in Amateur Sports Law, and participated in the Presidential Fellows Program.

Shruti is a graduate of the Trial Lawyers College and is admitted to the Texas and New Mexico State Bars as well as federal district courts in the Southern, Northern, and Eastern Districts of Texas. She serves as Vice President of the South Asian Bar Association of Houston's Gala Committee and as a Houston Bar Association Ambassador (2025-2027).

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
Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2021
Arizona State University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Texas
State Bar of New Mexico
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
South Asian Bar Association of Houston (VP Gala)
American Inns of Court - Garland R. Walker Chapter
Texas Trial Lawyers Association
Houston Trial Lawyers Association
Houston Young Lawyers Association
Asian American Bar Association of Houston
Houston Bar Association (Ambassador 2025-2027)

Awards & recognition

CALI Award - Amateur Sports Law
Trial Lawyers College Graduate
Order of the Lytae

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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.