Taylor Pace

Houston, TX9 years experienceAdmitted 2017

About Taylor Pace

Taylor Pace is a trial attorney at Armstrong Lee & Baker LLP in Houston, where he has helped recover hundreds of millions of dollars for clients in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases since becoming licensed in 2017. A native Houstonian, Taylor represents individuals and families harmed by negligence in cases involving burn injuries, traumatic brain injuries, amputations, explosions, workplace accidents, drunk driving incidents, and defective products.

Taylor earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Texas Christian University and his Juris Doctor cum laude from South Texas College of Law Houston, where he earned four CALI Excellence for the Future Awards, was named to the Dean's Honor List four times, and joined the Phi Delta Phi honor society.

Before joining Armstrong Lee & Baker, Taylor practiced at Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner and at McDowell Wells LLP. His courtroom success earned recognition from TopVerdict for securing one of the 10 largest verdicts in Texas and one of the 10 largest premises liability verdicts in the United States in 2021. He has been named a Super Lawyers Rising Star (2023-2026) and to Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch (2023-2025). He is admitted to the State Bar of Texas and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Northern Districts of Texas.

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
Economics, 2017
Texas Christian University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Texas, admitted 2017
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
Phi Delta Phi Honor Society

Awards & recognition

TopVerdict Top 10 Largest Verdicts in Texas (2021)
TopVerdict Top 10 Largest Premises Liability Verdicts in US (2021)
Super Lawyers Rising Star (2023-2026)
Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch (2023-2025)

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