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About Trent Shelton
Trent Shelton is a trial attorney at Arnold & Itkin LLP in Houston, where he focuses on personal injury, product liability, offshore and maritime injuries, plant and refinery accidents, truck accidents, wrongful death, and other catastrophic injury matters. Trent joined Arnold & Itkin in 2020 immediately after law school. The day after passing the Texas bar, he was already in the courtroom, and just three days into his first trial the defendants settled at the policy limits of $1 million.
In his first three years as an attorney, he has secured over $80 million in verdicts and settlements as lead counsel, including a $33.5 million verdict in a burn case and a $9.5 million settlement for an injured oilfield worker who sustained a traumatic brain injury and required back and neck surgeries. Trent grew up in Hughes Springs, Texas, and credits baseball with teaching him important life lessons. He earned his B.A. cum laude from Oral Roberts University and his J.D. magna cum laude from Baylor Law School (top 8% of class), where he was an associate editor of the Baylor Law Review, a member of the Order of the Barristers, and competed on Baylor's national moot court team.
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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