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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. Jennifer’s representative experience includes trucking and motor vehicle accidents, criminal acts of third parties, and premises liability involving apartments, restaurants, and commercial property.

Jennifer also represents physicians and medical professionals, hospitals and mental health institutions in complex health care liability matters. Her experience spans 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 in favor of a hospital in a case involving leg and back injuries sustained during an emergency room visit.
  • Secured a verdict of minimal liability for a hospital in a highly publicized wrongful death suit involving the death of an infant following delivery.
  • Obtained defense verdict in favor of a neurosurgeon in a case related to a back surgery.
  • Achieved multiple summary judgments and dismissals on behalf of physicians and hospitals.
  • Represented a trucking company and its driver in a case where its 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.