About Rand Nolen

Rand Nolen is a partner at Kherkher Garcia and a nationally recognized trial lawyer with more than 30 years of experience. Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, he has taken on some of the largest corporations in the world, including Exxon, Ford, Pfizer, Wyeth, and Sanofi, and tried cases in state and federal courts across the country. Rand has served on the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in the Taxotere Products Liability Litigation and as Co-Lead Counsel in the Addicks and Barker Reservoir Flooding litigation. His career includes mass torts related to Fen-Phen, Ford-Firestone rollovers, Asbestos, Rezulin, Hydroxycut, Accutane, Roundup, and Taxotere.

Notable verdicts include $15 million and $14.2 million in Fen-Phen cases in Oregon, and a $10.1 million verdict in Mathis v. Exxon Corp. affirmed by the Fifth Circuit. He has argued before the Texas Supreme Court, multiple U.S. Courts of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court. A Houston native, he earned his law degree from South Texas College of Law. He is listed in Best Lawyers in America and Texas Super Lawyers annually since 2012.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Kherkher Garcia

These results are credited to Kherkher Garcia. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$200 millionVerdict

A Philadelphia jury in May 2005 awarded two women a combined $200 million for heart-valve injuries caused by Wyeth's fen-phen diet drugs, with Steve Kherkher of Williams Bailey (now Kherkher Garcia) leading the trial, before a judge granted Wyeth's post-trial motion and the case resolved through a confidential settlement.

Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania · 2005Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$15 millionVerdict

A Harris County jury awarded $15 million to the husband and two sons of a longtime hospital nurse struck and killed while crossing the street to an employer parking lot, with Steve Kherkher among the trial team for the family.

133rd District Court, Harris County, Texas · 2018Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$12.45 millionVerdict

Jim Hart won a $12.45 million jury verdict for a Houston couple severely injured when a New Prime tractor-trailer rear-ended their sedan on I-45, though the Texas Supreme Court later reversed on procedural grounds and remanded for a new trial.

129th District Court of Harris County, Texas (Alonzo v. John, No. 14-20-00148-CV, affirmed Fourteenth Court of Appeals March 29, 2022) · 2019Truck AccidentsRead 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
J.D.
Stephen F. Austin State University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Texas

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