Jennifer O. Stogner

With a career that began in the courtroom on one of the most complex industrial disaster cases in Texas history and a practice that now spans wrongful death, traumatic brain injuries, refinery and petrochemical explosions, trucking collisions, construction accidents, product liability, and insurance litigation, Jennifer Stogner is one of the most accomplished catastrophic personal injury attorneys in Houston. In February 2025, she was elevated to partner at Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner, the oldest personal injury law firm in Texas, making her one of the first two female partners in the firm’s more than 74-year history.

If you or a family member has been seriously injured or lost a loved one due to someone else’s negligence in Houston or anywhere in Texas, Jennifer Stogner brings the courtroom experience, the preparation, and the understanding of how corporations defend these cases to fight for the outcome you deserve.

Jennifer O. Stogner was born in Galveston and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, the daughter of an attorney. During college, she worked as a legal secretary for her father, Michael O’Brien, at his Corpus Christi law firm, watching firsthand how seriously injured people navigate a legal system that is rarely built with them in mind. That experience shaped the way she has practiced law ever since.

She graduated from Texas A&M University Corpus Christi in 2002 with a double major in Finance and Accounting, then enrolled at South Texas College of Law Houston, her father’s alma mater, in 2003. At South Texas, she became one of the most decorated student advocates in the school’s history. She competed in 11 national moot court and mock trial tournaments, earned a place on the Dean’s List, received a nomination to the Order of Barristers, and was awarded the Dean’s Outstanding Student Advocate Award. In 2006, in her final semester of law school, she and her trial team, including her now husband Brant Stogner, won both the Regional Championship in Dallas and the National Championship in Miami at the ATLA Student Trial Advocacy Competition, the premier trial advocacy championship in the country.

After earning her J.D. in 2006, Jennifer began her career at a plaintiff’s litigation firm, where she was immediately assigned to the BP Texas City explosion cases, some of the most complex and high-stakes industrial disaster litigation in Texas at the time. That experience, handling multi-party explosion litigation with serious injuries and extraordinary factual complexity, defined the direction of her practice. She has since handled cases on both the plaintiff and defense sides of the docket, representing individuals, small businesses, and large corporations, and that dual experience gives her a distinct advantage in anticipating how the other side prepares and where its vulnerabilities lie.

Jennifer joined Abraham Watkins as Of Counsel in 2018 and was elevated to partner in February 2025. She is married to fellow partner Brant J. Stogner. Together, they have co-tried some of the firm’s largest and most complex catastrophic injury cases, bringing a rare level of coordination and shared courtroom experience to their clients’ most important moments.

Jennifer Stogner has been an active leader in the Houston legal community throughout her career. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Houston Trial Lawyers Association since 2017 and is a member of the Houston Bar Association. She served as President of the South Texas College of Law Houston Alumni Association from 2022 through 2024 and continues to serve on its Alumni Board of Directors, maintaining a connection to the school that launched her career and continuing to support the next generation of Texas trial lawyers.

Outside her professional commitments, Jennifer is deeply involved in the communities where she lives and raises her family. She is a member of the Monarch Oaks Community Association and the Monarch Oaks Mom’s Club, and she is an active member of the Gamma Phi Beta Alumnae chapter in Houston. She holds a first-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. She coaches and competes with her three children, Ryker, Beckett, and Holland, in soccer, baseball, basketball, and anything else competitive, and brings the same discipline and focus to her cases that she brings to everything else in her life.

Jennifer’s approach to her clients comes down to one principle she applies equally to her kids and her cases: safety first, otherwise someone gets hurt. When a corporation, employer, or property owner failed to put safety first and her client paid the price, she takes that personally and prepares accordingly.

Jennifer Stogner’s practice is devoted entirely to litigation and focuses on the most serious personal injury and wrongful death cases, those involving permanent, life-altering injuries or the loss of life. She handles industrial and petrochemical explosions, refinery and chemical plant accidents, oilfield incidents, 18-wheeler and commercial truck collisions, construction site falls and workplace accidents, product liability including automobile and tire defects, premises liability, drowning and aquatic injury cases, traumatic brain injuries, Jones Act and maritime claims, dram shop liability, pedestrian accidents, and insurance bad faith. She is licensed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas and handles federal court litigation in addition to state court cases.