About Us | The People Behind the Work

Team Stogner is not a marketing phrase. It is a description of how Brant and Jennifer Stogner actually practice: together, in the same building, on the same cases, with the same relentless preparation that has produced over $230 million in gross verdicts and settlements for catastrophically injured Texans and their families.

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They met on the first day of law school. They won a national trial championship together before they were lawyers. They have spent nearly two decades building practices, a family, and a reputation as two of the most prepared and effective personal injury trial attorneys in Houston. When you hire Team Stogner, you are not hiring a name on a door. You are hiring two experienced trial lawyers who are invested in your case at a level that most firms cannot match.

Where It Started : El Campo, Texas

Brant Stogner grew up in El Campo, a small town about an hour southwest of Houston, where he learned early that the only things worth doing are worth doing all the way. He was a standout athlete and student, earning a football scholarship to the University of Houston before transferring to Texas A&M after multiple knee surgeries ended his playing career. Rather than step back, he leaned in. He graduated in the top 10% of his class with a degree in Accounting, then enrolled at South Texas College of Law Houston with a clarity of purpose that defined everything that followed.

Jennifer O’Brien Stogner grew up in Corpus Christi, the daughter of an attorney. While other college students were studying theory, she was working as a legal secretary for her father’s firm, watching real clients navigate the legal system and understanding from a young age what was actually at stake when someone walked through a lawyer’s door. She graduated from Texas A&M Corpus Christi with a double major in Finance and Accounting, then followed her father’s path to South Texas College of Law Houston.

That is where they met, on the first day of law school in 2003. By 2006, they were the best trial team in the country.

In their final semester of law school, Brant and Jennifer won the Regional Championship in Dallas and the National Championship in Miami at the ATLA Student Trial Advocacy Competition. It was the first indication of what was coming.

From the Courtroom Out: How They Built Their Practice

Both Brant and Jennifer began their legal careers learning the side of the case that most personal injury attorneys never see. Brant spent two years at a Houston defense firm representing corporate defendants and insurance companies in civil litigation. Jennifer began her career on the plaintiff side but quickly moved into defense work as well, handling cases for individuals, small businesses, and large corporations. They did not do this by accident. They did it deliberately, because understanding how corporations and insurers defend serious injury cases is the most valuable preparation a plaintiff’s attorney can have.

Brant joined the plaintiff’s practice at Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner in 2008, one of the oldest and most respected personal injury firms in Texas, and tried 12 cases to jury verdict in his first three years. He achieved Board Certification in Personal Injury Trial Law from the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in 2011, at the earliest possible eligibility, a distinction held by fewer than 2% of Texas attorneys. Jennifer joined the firm in 2018, bringing with her a practice that had already included representation in the BP Texas City explosion litigation, one of the most complex industrial disaster cases in Texas history. Together, they have co-tried some of the firm’s most significant catastrophic injury cases and have been recognized side by side for their results.

Today they lead Team Stogner, a litigation team within Abraham Watkins built around a simple operating principle: every case gets the preparation it deserves, every client gets the attention they were promised, and no case settles for less than it is worth simply because it was easier.

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The Results That Define the Practice

Words on a website are easy. Results in the courtroom are not. The following gross verdicts and settlements, before deduction of attorney’s fees and litigation expenses, represent what Team Stogner has recovered for real clients in real cases. Past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future case.

Brant Stogner secured a $65 million settlement for a client who suffered catastrophic electrical burns in a flooded building following Hurricane Harvey, requiring more than 20 surgeries over six years. It is the largest single-plaintiff settlement in the history of Abraham Watkins. He secured:

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A $30,190,000 settlement after a jury found a petrochemical refinery 100% responsible for a catastrophic explosion
A $28 million settlement followed for a pipeline technician with spinal and brain injuries after a commercial vehicle collision
A $23 million aviation settlement resolved in the third week of trial after a pretrial offer of $4.5 million
A $22,707,000 jury verdict for a worker rendered quadriplegic after a fall of more than 20 feet was recognized by Verdict Search as the largest workplace safety verdict in Texas in 2009
A $18 million settlement was recovered for the family of a 5-year-old child who drowned at a Baytown apartment complex due to a defective pool gate
A $12 million settlement for a 6-year-old drowning at a Houston apartment complex

Jennifer Stogner has been recognized nationally for top-ranked settlement results across a wide range of case types, including premises liability, residential premises liability, drowning accidents, workplace accidents, burn injuries, motor vehicle collisions, and personal injury broadly. Her career began on the BP Texas City explosion litigation and has since included catastrophic cases involving refinery and petrochemical incidents, commercial vehicle collisions, construction site accidents, defective products, traumatic brain injuries, and wrongful death.

Across both practices, Team Stogner has recovered over $230 million in gross verdicts and settlements, before deduction of attorney’s fees and litigation expenses, for injured Texans and their families.

Who They Are Outside the Courtroom

Brant and Jennifer Stogner live in Houston and are raising three children together: Ryker, Beckett, and Holland. Brant coaches youth baseball, basketball, soccer, and football across Spring Branch and Timbergrove leagues. Jennifer holds a first-degree black belt in Taekwondo. They are both deeply connected to South Texas College of Law Houston, where their careers began and where they have both given back continuously since graduation. Brant has been an adjunct advocacy professor and varsity mock trial coach there since 2006. Jennifer served as President of the South Texas College of Law Houston Alumni Association from 2022 through 2024 and continues to serve on its Board.

Brant has been involved in community leadership throughout Houston, including youth sports coaching at the highest competitive levels, pro bono family law representation through the Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program, classroom sponsorship through the Houston Trial Lawyers Foundation, and civic association board service in their neighborhood. Jennifer is active in the Houston Bar Association, the Houston Trial Lawyers Association, and her community through the Monarch Oaks Civic Association.

They are not attorneys who show up for the trial and leave. They are part of the community they represent.

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Recognition from the Legal Community

Brant Stogner has been named a Top 100 Texas attorney and a Top 100 Houston attorney by Texas Super Lawyers every year from 2019 through 2025. He was elected to the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) in 2015 as one of the youngest inductees in the Houston chapter. He holds the Texas Bar Foundation Fellows designation, reserved for the top one-third of one percent of all Texas attorneys. Best Lawyers in America has recognized him for Personal Injury Litigation, Plaintiffs (2023 through 2026) and Product Liability Litigation, Plaintiffs (2025 through 2026).

Jennifer Stogner has been named to the Texas Super Lawyers list from 2021 through 2025, and to the Texas Rising Stars list in 2018 and 2019. Since 2023, she has appeared on both the Up-and-Coming 50: Women Texas Rising Stars and the Up-and-Coming 100: Texas Rising Stars lists. Best Lawyers in America has recognized her for Personal Injury Litigation, Plaintiffs (2024 through 2026) and Litigation in Insurance (2025 through 2026).

Together, they have been recognized for results that rank among the top personal injury recoveries in Texas by size, complexity, and case type.

The Team Behind the Cases

Brant and Jennifer do not work alone. Team Stogner is a dedicated litigation team built to handle serious, complex catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases from the first call to the final resolution. Every attorney on the team has been selected for their preparation, their judgment, and their commitment to the same standard Brant and Jennifer set for their own cases. Every case on the team’s docket gets the attention it deserves, not the attention that happens to be left over.

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The team operates within the broader resources of Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner, the oldest personal injury law firm in Texas, which means Team Stogner cases benefit from decades of institutional knowledge, established relationships with the best expert witnesses in the country, and the infrastructure that complex catastrophic litigation demands.

If you or a family member has been catastrophically injured or killed by someone else’s negligence, Team Stogner is prepared to listen to your story and tell you honestly what they believe can be done. Contact Team Stogner today for a free consultation.

Results Disclosure: All case results referenced on this page reflect gross verdicts or settlements before deduction of attorney’s fees and litigation expenses. Results are specific to the facts, injuries, and circumstances of each individual case. Past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future case.

Fee Arrangement: Stogner Trial Law handles personal injury and wrongful death cases on a contingency fee basis. You pay no attorney’s fees unless we recover compensation for you. Litigation expenses, including filing fees, expert costs, and deposition costs, are advanced and are recovered from any settlement or verdict. If there is no recovery, you owe no attorney’s fees. Please discuss the specific terms of your representation with your attorney.

Our Awards & Honors

Our team has received numerous awards from organizations including: Super Lawyers, TopVerdict.com, National Trial Lawyers, & Avvo.

We are proud to be involved with the following organizations: National Trial Lawyers, Texas Bar Foundation, American Board of Trial Advocates, & Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

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