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Kyle Findley

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Attorney at Arnold & Itkin
Houston, TX14 years experienceAdmitted 2011

About Kyle Findley

Jonathan Kyle Findley is a trial attorney at Arnold & Itkin LLP in Houston, focused on personal injury, offshore, business, and land contamination matters. He started his career as a law clerk at the firm and was one of the first lawyers hired post-graduation. He has secured record-breaking verdicts and settlements totaling over half a billion dollars, including a $2.065 billion Roundup verdict in Georgia, a $557 million Union Pacific train verdict, a $357.7 million workplace injury settlement, and a $254 million mass casualty plant explosion settlement.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$2.065 billionVerdict

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.

Georgia (state court) · 2025Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$557 millionVerdict

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.

Harris County District Court, Houston, TX · 2023Read the full story →
$6.45 million (satisfied after two remittiturs; $27,707,930 jury verdict)Verdict

Walter Jackson, 48, was a rigger on an offshore platform 65 miles south of Lake Charles. The crew was lowering sections of corroded firewater pipe when the manila rope holding a 131-pound section broke. He was standing in a landing zone nobody had cleared, and it killed him instantly.

U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana (Lake Charles) · 2025Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
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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
J.D.
University of Texas at Austin
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Texas, admitted 2011
State Bar of Louisiana
State Bar of Pennsylvania
State Bar of New Mexico
National Trial Lawyers Top 100
National Association of Distinguished Counsel

Awards & recognition

Best Lawyers in America
Texas Super Lawyers Rising Star (2015-2021)
Nation's Top One Percent - National Association of Distinguished Counsel (2020)
American Institute of Trial Lawyers - 2020 Personal Injury Litigator of the Year
Best of the Bar
National Trial Lawyers Top 100

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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Houston firms

The Buzbee Law Firm
The Buzbee Law Firm
$1.1 billion · $1.1 Billion Verdict for Child Left Brain-Damaged by Oil-Fortune Heir
The Lanier Law Firm
The Lanier Law Firm
$4.69 billion (upheld $2.11 billion on appeal) · $4.69 Billion Talcum Powder Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson for Ovarian Cancer (2018)
Williams Hart & Boundas
Williams Hart & Boundas
$15.3 billion · Texas Recovers $15.3 Billion From Tobacco Industry in Landmark 1998 Settlement
Abraham Watkins
Abraham Watkins
$32 million · Barn Door Collapse at Midtown Hilton Garden Inn Leads to $32 Million Verdict, Later Reduced to $12 Million
Zehl & Associates
Zehl & Associates
$37.5 million · $37.5 Million Verdict for the Family of Trucker Shamsher Singh, Killed by a Distracted Oncor Driver