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About Ali Poulson
Ali (Alexandra Faye) Poulson is a trial attorney at Arnold & Itkin LLP in Houston, where she focuses primarily on catastrophic workplace injuries, maritime, and offshore accidents. She grew up in a small Utah town where her father owned a manufacturing shop, an experience that shaped her commitment to worker safety. Ali found her passion for litigation in law school as one of her school's top trial competitors, becoming a National Semi-Finalist at the National Trial Competition, competing in the Tournament of Champions, and earning a National Institute of Trial Advocacy Certification. Her career at Arnold & Itkin began as a law clerk during her last semester in law school.
After passing the bar, she worked briefly in Utah before moving to Houston to take on her dream job as a Trial Attorney. Ali has been a key member of trial teams that secured an $860 million verdict in a 2023 crane fatality case, $278.8 million for victims of a wellsite accident, a record-breaking $164.5 million for the victim of a refinery accident, $125 million for victims of a car crash, and a $1.9 million verdict in a multi-defendant bus crash case. She earned her B.F.A. in Theatre from the University of Utah and her J.D. from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Arnold & Itkin
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A Cobb County, Georgia jury found that Monsanto's Roundup caused John Barnes's non-Hodgkin lymphoma and awarded him $2.065 billion, with Arnold & Itkin's Kyle Findley serving as lead trial lawyer.
A Harris County jury awarded Mary Johnson $557 million against Union Pacific for a 2016 Houston train strike that cost her a leg, several fingers, and left her with a brain injury, a figure the trial court later cut and an appeals court reversed for a new trial.
Jose Valdivia, 25, was building scaffolding at the Phillips 66 refinery in Lake Charles when a co-worker above him lost his grip on a steel scaffold bar. It struck him on the head and spine through a hard hat and full protective equipment. He is in a wheelchair with limited speech. Brock never reported the accident to OSHA.
A Dallas County jury found developer Greystar liable for the 2019 tower crane collapse that killed 29-year-old Kiersten Smith in her apartment, returning an $860 million verdict that Jason and Cory Itkin helped win for her family. The trial court cut the $500 million exemplary award under the Texas statutory cap before signing judgment in August 2023, entering $360,012,006 in compensatory damages jointly and severally against the three Greystar entities plus prejudgment interest, and Greystar's appeal, argued in February 2026, is undecided.
A Fort Bend County jury awarded $222 million to the widow of Jesse Henson, a power-plant repairman scalded to death by superheated steam from a relief valve serviced by Team Industrial Services, a judgment a Texas appeals court later reversed before dismissing the case on the ground that it belonged in Kansas.
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