Eleanor O. Aldous

Eleanor O. Aldous came to the law the long way — through classrooms and scholarship work — and that shows in how she practices. Before becoming a plaintiffs’ trial attorney at Aldous Law in Dallas, she served with AmeriCorps through City Year New York, tutoring fourth graders in East New York, Brooklyn, and then worked at The Posse Foundation, which sends high-potential students from diverse backgrounds to top universities on full scholarships. She went to law school because she saw it as the most direct way to change people’s lives, and her practice today — catastrophic personal injury, medical negligence, products liability, and sexual abuse — reflects that mission.

Her results are already substantial. In November 2021, she served as co-counsel in a medical malpractice trial against a neurosurgeon and a university hospital on behalf of a patient who suffered brain damage during surgery; the jury returned a $9.7 million verdict, which reached $11.6 million with prejudgment interest. More recently, she teamed with her mother, famed trial lawyer Charla Aldous, to win a $71.95 million verdict against Walker Engineering for the family of a Texas electrician killed when a boom lift backed into the scissor lift he was working on at an Irving Frito-Lay factory. Lawdragon named her to its 2026 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers list for her work in personal injury, medical malpractice, product liability, and sexual abuse.

Her training came at elite institutions on both sides. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, she practiced at Kline & Specter — one of the country’s premier personal injury firms — handling medical malpractice, products liability, premises liability, and sex abuse cases across Pennsylvania, where she is licensed. She describes her approach as empathy-driven: connecting with clients so she can tell their stories to a jury in a way that lands, while using big-firm experience to level the playing field against powerful defendants.

Eleanor Aldous fits injury victims who want a trial lawyer with genuine verdict experience but also the patience to listen — particularly in medical negligence, defective product, workplace death, and sexual abuse cases where the opposing side has deep pockets and every incentive to fight. Consultations at Aldous Law are free, and clients pay no fee unless their case wins.