Lena Laurenzo

Lena B. Laurenzo is a Houston trial lawyer and partner at Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner who represents people injured or killed by the negligence of individuals and companies. Her practice covers personal injury and maritime law in Texas.

According to the firm, Laurenzo has practiced 100 percent personal injury and maritime law. Her experience includes catastrophic injury cases, 18-wheeler and commercial vehicle crashes, Jones Act and general maritime cases, wrongful deaths, workplace injuries, product liability cases, and automobile and pedestrian crashes.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Texas Tech University in 2010, graduating cum laude, and worked at Abraham Watkins for two years as a file clerk and legal assistant before attending South Texas College of Law Houston. She took part in the school’s trial advocacy program, clerked for Judge R.K. Sandill of the 127th District Court and graduated in 2015 as an inductee of the Order of Barristers. She began practicing after passing the Texas bar and joined Abraham Watkins in 2019.

At her first trial, Laurenzo co-led a wrongful death case that resulted in a $17,720,000 jury verdict. In a more recent product liability wrongful death trial that she co-led, a Mississippi jury returned a unanimous verdict of $9,864,571.54.

Laurenzo serves on the Houston Trial Lawyers Association executive committee as director of its diversity committee and is founding chair of the Houston Bar Association’s LGBTQ+ Committee. She has taught trial advocacy and depositions as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law Center.