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About Ryan Zehl
Ryan Zehl is the founder of Zehl & Associates, a Houston-based plaintiffs' personal injury law firm with a national practice focused on catastrophic injury, offshore, oilfield, and commercial truck cases. He earned his B.A. in Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin and his J.D. magna cum laude from South Texas College of Law, graduating in the top 5 percent of his class. After law school, Ryan served as a briefing attorney for Justice Scott Brister of the Texas Supreme Court before joining Gardere's litigation and appellate group, where he distinguished himself as an aggressive trial lawyer in complex commercial and personal injury cases.
Ryan has been named a Texas Super Lawyer every year since 2009 and has been featured on the cover of Texas Super Lawyers magazine. He has also been named to the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 in Texas and to LawDragon's leading lawyers in America in 2025. He holds lifetime membership in both the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Zehl & Associates
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Zehl & Associates secured a $35 million settlement for the family of Susana Longoria, a 31-year-old nursing student and single mother killed when a Ben E. Keith 18-wheeler struck her disabled car and the people helping her on I-35W in Fort Worth.
A Dallas County jury found Oncor's driver 84 percent at fault and awarded $37.5 million to the widow and three children of trucker Shamsher Singh, killed on I-635 when a distracted Oncor service-truck driver struck his stopped 18-wheeler.
Zehl & Associates recovered $16 million for a drillship floorhand injured in the moonpool of a Gulf of Mexico rig, ranked by TopVerdicts as the largest reported Jones Act maritime settlement in Texas for 2025.
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