Chelsie Garza
Owner & Attorney | Chelsie King Garza, P.C.
Chelsie Garza is a medical malpractice, personal injury and trucking accidents trial lawyer and owner & attorney of Chelsie King Garza, P.C. in Houston, Texas. Admitted in Texas.
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6th Floor #200
Houston, Texas 77032
Chelsie King Garza is a Houston, Texas, trial lawyer and the owner of Chelsie King Garza, P.C. Her practice centers on medical malpractice, catastrophic injury, trucking crashes and wrongful death, and she also handles workplace injury, nursing home neglect, product liability and dog bite cases.
Garza has practiced for more than 20 years in state and federal court. Before opening her own firm, she was a personal injury litigator at Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto & Friend and earlier handled commercial, construction and product liability litigation, including product liability dockets for Fortune 500 companies. She tried a medical malpractice case over a botched hysterectomy that produced the largest medical malpractice verdict in Texas for 2012, as reported by Thomson Reuters, and was part of the trial team that secured a $230 million judgment against the U.S. Air Force for victims and families of the Sutherland Springs church shooting.
She is licensed in Texas, New York and New Jersey and is a certified mediator. Her pro bono work includes a case that changed how Texas applies the coming-and-going rule in workers’ compensation. She is a past chair of the State Bar of Texas Women and the Law Section and has raised funds for the Tahirih Justice Center and the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- Licensed by the Supreme Court of Texas (2002)
- State Bar of New York (2000)
- State Bar of New Jersey (2000)
- U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey (2000)
- U.S. District Courts, Eastern and Southern Districts of Texas (2002)
- Certified Mediator
Practice Areas
- State Bar of Texas (Past Chair, Women and the Law Section)
- Houston Trial Lawyers Association
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association
- Houston Bar Association (Past Co-Chair, Gender Fairness Committee)
- American Bar Association
- Federal Bar Association
- Association of Women Attorneys
- Hispanic National Bar Association (Affiliate Member)
- Houston Young Lawyers Association
- New Jersey State Bar Association
- New York State Bar Association
- National Association of Professional Women
- Best Lawyers in America (2024-2027)
- Top 100 Trial Lawyers, The National Trial Lawyers (2013-2026)
- Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters (2014-2024)
- Rising Star, Thomson Reuters (2013-2014)
- Top 40 Under 40, The National Trial Lawyers (2014)
- Best Personal Injury Lawyers in Houston, Houston Chronicle (2023-2024)
- Top 25 Medical Malpractice Lawyers, The National Advocates (2019-2024)
- AV Preeminent Rating, Martindale-Hubbell (2015)
- Largest Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict of 2012: Tried a case for a patient left with a permanent colostomy after a botched hysterectomy; reported by Thomson Reuters as the state's largest medical malpractice verdict that year.
- $230 Million Judgment: Member of the trial team that obtained a judgment against the U.S. Air Force for victims and families of the Sutherland Springs, Texas, First Baptist Church shooting.
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