Top Rated Appellate Attorney in Houston, TX

Natalie Armour joined the Issues and Appeals section of The Lanier Law Firm in 2012. Ms. Armour's outstanding experience in trial and appellate matters complements the expertise of the other attorneys at The Lanier Law Firm.  She handles complex briefing in trial and appellate courts in mass tort, pharmaceutical and medical device litigation, and other types of products liability cases, personal injury matters, and commercial litigation.  Since 2018, Ms. Armour has been named one of the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 Civil Plaintiff Attorneys. Ms. Armour was recognized by Best Lawyers in America for 2021

Ms. Armour was a key member of the firm's talcum powder litigation team that won a multi-billion dollar jury verdict against Johnson & Johnson in 2018. She was also a member of the firm's appellate team that jointly briefed the matter before the court of appeals in 2019. In 2020, the Missouri Supreme Court declined to hear the defendants' appeal, preserving the $2.1 billion judgment.

Ms. Armour has briefed appellate matters before the Texas Supreme Court, Texas Courts of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, Eighth Circuit, and Court of Appeals for the Eastern District of Missouri.  She is licensed to practice law in Texas. She is also a member of the Appellate Sections of the State Bar of Texas and the Houston Bar Association.

Ms. Armour is a native Texan who was born and raised in Dallas. She graduated cum laude from Baylor University in 2005, with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, and cum laude from Texas Tech School of Law in 2009.  After law school, Ms. Armour clerked for Justice Kent C. Sullivan at the Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston, Texas. Prior to joining The Lanier Law Firm, she worked as an associate at two Houston defense firms, where she focused primarily on property-related insurance litigation.