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Jennifer R. Grillo

Jennifer R. Grillo

Local Office Managing Partner

TX – Houston
T: 713.418.2087 | F: 713.418.2001

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Jennifer is a seasoned litigator and trial lawyer who represents individuals and businesses, with emphasis on personal injury matters, including catastrophic injury, traumatic brain injury, wrongful death and dram shop claims. Her representative experience includes trucking and motor vehicle accidents, criminal acts of third parties and premises liability involving apartments, restaurants and commercial properties.

Jennifer also represents physicians and medical professionals, hospitals and mental health institutions in complex health care liability matters. Her practice includes high-exposure claims involving alleged medical negligence. She manages every phase of litigation, from early investigation through trial and appeal, and brings strategic insight to both individual and institutional defense.

Practices

  • Obtained a defense verdict for a hospital client in a case involving leg and back injuries allegedly sustained during an emergency room visit.
  • Secured a verdict of minimal liability for a hospital client in a highly publicized wrongful death action arising from the death of an infant following delivery.
  • Obtained a defense verdict for a neurosurgeon client in a case related to a back surgery.
  • Achieved multiple summary judgments and dismissals on behalf of physicians and hospital clients.
  • Represented a trucking company and its driver in a matter which the operator was loading our client’s disabled box truck onto their tow truck’s flatbed when an independent third-party tractor-trailer operator veered off the highway and struck the tow truck, fatally injuring its driver; the Court dismissed all claims against our client for lack of proximate cause.
  • Presented oral argument for William J. Chapman v. Atlantic Insurance Co., No. 14-00-00920-CV, 2002 WL 369968, (Tex. App. – Houston [14th Dist.] March 7, 2002.