Aileen Christensen

Aileen Christensen is an attorney at Arnold & Itkin in Houston who handles personal injury, wrongful death, workplace injuries, plant and refinery accidents, and offshore incidents. She grew up in Utah, earned her Ph.D. in French Literature from NYU, and transitioned from academia—where she researched medieval and 19th-century French literature and published articles on George Sand and Paul Feval—to legal practice, attending law school while working at Arnold & Itkin. She has stated: "My favorite cases are the hard cases. No matter what tactics corporations use to avoid responsibility for the harm they cause, I will never stop fighting for my clients."