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Roland Christensen

Roland Christensen

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Attorney at Arnold & Itkin
Houston, TX9 years experience
Wrongful Death

About Roland Christensen

Roland Christensen is a trial lawyer at Arnold & Itkin LLP focusing exclusively on catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases. He began at Arnold & Itkin as a law clerk in 2015 and joined as an attorney after being admitted to the Texas bar in November 2016. He has been the driving force on some of the firm's largest and most complex cases. While at BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School, he was lead editor for the BYU Law Review, the highest achiever in his legal writing and advanced appellate brief classes, and spent two years as a legal writing teaching assistant — even authoring a 150-page legal writing manual used by first-year writing classes at the school.

Notable case results

$209.2 millionVerdict

A Harris County jury awarded Laura Schneider and her three children $209.2 million after finding that Terra Energy Partners hid a known hantavirus danger that killed her husband, Karl.

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$411 millionVerdict

(Brock Services scaffolding) — largest single-plaintiff personal injury verdict in Louisiana history (2025)

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$209.2 millionVerdict

Wrongful death/Hantavirus verdict

Reported by the firm
$193 millionSettlement

Pipeline explosion settlement

Reported by the firm
$77.5 millionSettlement

For Houston family man paralyzed in workplace incident

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Verdict

Part of trial team on $8 billion Johnson & Johnson verdict

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$2.25 billionVerdict

Roundup verdict (team)

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Wrongful Death

Education

J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University
JD
Brigham Young University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Texas
State Bar of Louisiana
State Bar of California
State Bar of Pennsylvania
State Bar of Georgia
State Bar of Utah
State Bar of U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
State Bar of Multiple U.S. District Courts (S/E/W/N Districts)
American Academy of Attorneys

Awards & recognition

Best Lawyers — Personal Injury Litigation Plaintiffs (2026)
Best Lawyers — Admiralty & Maritime Law (2024-2026)
Best Lawyers — Product Liability Litigation Plaintiffs (2026)
National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40
Super Lawyers Rising Stars (2022-2025)
Magna Cum Laude — Top 20 of class, BYU Law

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