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Kurt Arnold

Founding Partner

  • 23 yrs experience
  • Houston, TX
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Bar admissions
  • Texas
  • Pennsylvania
  • Arizona
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • Fifth Circuit
  • Second Circuit
  • Third Circuit
  • U.S. District Courts (Southern, Eastern, Western, Northern Districts of Texas)
Education
JD
University of Texas School of Law2002
Undergraduate
University of Texas at Austin1998
Awards and recognition
  1. 01Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year 2026 — Product Liability Litigation (Houston)
  2. 02Best Lawyers in America (Admiralty/Maritime, Personal Injury, Mass Tort, Product Liability)
  3. 03Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America
  4. 04National Law Journal Elite Trial Lawyer Top 50
  5. 05Texas Super Lawyers (2013-2025)
  6. 06National Trial Lawyers Top 100
Memberships
  • Inner Circle of Advocates
  • National Trial Lawyers Top 100
  • Distinguished Counsel

Background

Kurt Arnold is the co-founder of Arnold & Itkin LLP, which he established with Jason Itkin in 2004 at age 25. He has secured over $25 billion in verdicts and settlements for clients, routinely winning more than $1 billion annually. He has won more than a dozen jury verdicts and settlements over $100 million, over 100 in excess of $10 million, and more than 1,000 recoveries exceeding $1 million. He focuses on catastrophic personal injury, admiralty/maritime injury law, product liability, and insurance bad faith claims, with a particular reputation for representing offshore workers and victims of industrial disasters.

Notable cases

  • $8 billion product liability verdict (largest single-plaintiff verdict in U.S. history)

  • $2.25 billion Roundup/Monsanto verdict

  • $357.7 million Texas workplace accident settlement

  • $254 million plant explosion settlement

  • $193 million offshore pipeline explosion

  • $185 million seamen severe weather injuries

  • $117 million Louisiana personal injury verdict

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