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About Chris Leavitt
Chris Leavitt received his undergraduate degree with honors from the University of Texas in 2002 and is a 2005 graduate of the University of Houston Law Center. During law school, he completed clerkships for the Harris County District Attorney, The Buzbee Law Firm, and the Honorable Lynn H. Hughes, United States District Judge, Southern District of Texas. Chris handles personal injury and wrongful death matters, defends one of the largest grocery store chains in Texas, and is involved in several of the firm's largest commercial litigation cases.
He has represented hundreds of Jones Act seamen, small businesses, industrial workers, and policyholders in first-party insurance cases, and frequently represents clients in suits against dredging contractors across the United States. Chris is particularly focused on representing churches and children injured by others' negligence. He is licensed to practice in Texas.
Proven verdicts and settlements at The Buzbee Law Firm
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A Dallas jury awarded $1.1 billion against a trust fund heir who beat a 2-year-old into a permanent vegetative state in 2021, a verdict the firm calls the largest child-assault award in U.S. history.
A Harris County jury awarded $640 million to the family of David Lester Loree II, a journeyman pipefitter fatally crushed when a top-heavy HVAC unit being lifted by TNT Crane and Rigging overturned in high winds at a Texas A&M University-San Antonio construction site in September 2021.
A San Patricio County jury awarded $198.2 million to Kristene Chapa, who was kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and shot in the head at a public park in 2012, with the verdict holding her convicted attacker, his father, and their family pharmacy jointly liable.
A Houston jury awarded $159 million to five oilfield workers burned, and the family of one man killed, in a 2012 liquid-fire explosion at Valero Energy's Memphis, Tennessee refinery.
A Galveston federal jury awarded $100 million to ten contract workers exposed to carbon disulfide at BP's Texas City refinery in April 2007. The judge set aside the punitive damages, seven workers later settled on undisclosed terms, and the Fifth Circuit vacated the verdict for the remaining three in 2011.
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