Lena B. Laurenzo

Lena Laurenzo, a partner at Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner, has devoted her entire legal career — every case, without exception — to personal injury and maritime law. For someone comparing Houston injury attorneys, her trial results speak plainly. In her very first trial, she co-led a complex wrongful death case to a $17,720,000 jury verdict. In her most recent, she co-led a product liability wrongful death case in Mississippi where the jury returned a unanimous verdict of $9,864,571.54 — after deliberating just an hour and a half. Juries that decide that quickly and that unanimously are responding to a case built with exceptional clarity.

Her practice covers the spectrum of serious harm: catastrophic injuries, 18-wheeler and commercial vehicle collisions, Jones Act and general maritime claims, wrongful death, workplace accidents, defective products, and car and pedestrian crashes. The recognition has kept pace — nine straight years on the Super Lawyers Texas Rising Stars list (2017–2025) before elevation to the full Super Lawyers list in 2026, a 2023 selection among Texas’ Up-And-Coming Top 50 Women Rising Stars and Top 100 Rising Stars, inclusion on Houstonia magazine’s Top Lawyers list for personal injury every year since 2020, and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch honors in personal injury, medical malpractice, and product liability litigation.

Laurenzo also understands injury from the client’s side of the table: just before her senior year of college, she was hurt in a crash caused by a drunk driver. A third-generation Houstonian and granddaughter of the late “Mama” Ninfa Laurenzo — the beloved restaurateur who reshaped Mexican dining in Houston — she grew up watching her grandmother give back to the community and became the first lawyer in her family. She earned her psychology degree cum laude from Texas Tech University in 2010, with a Spanish minor completed partly in Seville, Spain, then spent two years at Abraham Watkins as a file clerk and legal assistant before deciding the law was how she could help people most. At South Texas College of Law Houston she trained intensively in the school’s acclaimed trial advocacy program, clerked for Judge R.K. Sandill of the 127th District Court, and graduated in 2015 as an Order of Barristers inductee. She now teaches other lawyers too, presenting continuing legal education programs on depositions, jury ethics, and trial lessons.

She is a particularly strong choice for families pursuing wrongful death claims, maritime and offshore workers with Jones Act cases, victims of 18-wheeler and commercial vehicle crashes, and anyone harmed by a defective product — especially clients who want a proven courtroom advocate who has lived through a serious crash herself. The firm advances all costs and charges no fee unless it wins, and the initial consultation is free.