SOUTHEAST TEXAS RECORD

Lawdragon, one of the nation’s leading guides on lawyers and the legal profession, has announced its 2024 Lawdragon Legends, listing “33 of the nation’s finest lawyers.” Among them are three Texas Law alumni and one faculty member.

The honorees represent “the best a lawyer can be,” Lawdragon says in its announcement of the winners. This is the 10th year Lawdragon has recognized a group of Legends. Texas Law lawyers have been on the list almost every year, starting with Susman Godfrey co-founder Steve Susman ’65 in 2015.

Included in the list of 2024 honorees are:

• Kurt Arnold ’02, a personal injury trial lawyer and co-founding partner of Arnold & Itkin based in Houston. His practice focuses on plaintiff consumer law, and he brings experience in admiralty and maritime law.
• Erica Harris ’96, a partner with Susman Godfrey in Houston. Her practice focuses on commercial litigation, plaintiffs, and defense side. (Learn more about Harris in her 2020 interview with Lawdragon.)
• Jason Itkin ’01, a personal injury trial lawyer and co-founding partner of Arnold & Itkin based in Houston. He has a broad practice focusing on admiralty and maritime litigation for offshore injuries, complex business litigation, catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death, and pharmaceutical and medical device litigation.
• Bill Reid, senior founding partner of Reid Collins & Tsai LLP. He represents public companies, hedge funds, private equity funds, offshore liquidators, bankruptcy fiduciaries, Securities and Exchange Commission receivers, and individual clients, among others. (Learn more about Reid in his 2023 interview with Lawdragon.)

“‘Legends’ is the perfect word to describe these amazing lawyers,” says Dean Bobby Chesney. “Each has made a profound contribution to the profession, and we are proud that they are part of the Texas Law community.”

Both Arnold and Itkin have been closely involved in law school projects over the past year and a half, with their firm sponsoring the 2023 Texas Law Review symposium on the subject of multidistrict litigation, as well as providing support to a new student organization focused on plaintiff lawyers, the Plaintiff’s Advocacy & Litigation Society, or PALS. Reid has also supported PALS and is currently teaching Complex Financial Litigation.

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