Charla G. Aldous

When Forbes assembled its Best-in-State Lawyers list, Charla Aldous was the only attorney in Texas recognized for personal injury — and she was named the top personal injury lawyer on it. For someone comparing Dallas injury and malpractice attorneys, that single fact separates her from nearly everyone else in the market. Aldous has stood before juries in more than 200 trials, representing both plaintiffs and defendants over her career, and she says the courtroom is where she feels most at home.

Her recent results back up the reputation. Alongside her daughter and law partner Eleanor Aldous, she won a $71.95 million verdict against Walker Engineering for the family of a Texas electrician killed at an Irving Frito-Lay factory, where a boom lift backed into the scissor lift he was working on and collapsed it. In another case, her firm’s investigation proved a defectively designed Honda seat belt — whose shoulder strap caught a driver’s neck and left her quadriplegic — was a trap most people would have fallen into, and a jury held the automaker responsible. Her trial docket has spanned birth injuries, medical malpractice, sexual assault, and other catastrophic injury claims.

Aldous actually started her career defending businesses and insurance companies. She crossed to the plaintiff’s side because she wanted to choose her clients, know them personally, and believe in their causes — and she still works on every one of the firm’s cases herself. The profession has taken notice: she belongs to the Inner Circle of Advocates, an organization limited to the 100 best plaintiff trial lawyers in America, as well as the invitation-only International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers. Texas Super Lawyers has ranked her among the state’s Top 3 attorneys, her seventh appearance at Top 10 or higher. She was named to the 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers list, honored among Texas’ Top 100 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyers by The National Trial Lawyers, and included in D Magazine’s Best Lawyers in Dallas for 2025. Aldous Law itself holds a consistent Tier 1 ranking from U.S. News – Best Lawyers.

Aldous is the lawyer to call when the stakes are highest: a birth injury, a surgical or hospital error, a workplace death, a defective product, or a sexual assault case against a powerful institution. Defendants know she will try the case rather than settle cheap — leverage that benefits every client she takes. Consultations are free, and cases are handled on contingency with no fee unless you win.