Top Rated Personal Injury Attorney in Houston, TX

Scott C. Krist is the owner of The Krist Law Firm, P.C., in Houston, Texas.  His firm handles cases of catastrophic injury and wrongful death, maritime injuries, commercial trucking accidents, product liability, aviation accidents and work accidents. In 2011, he secured the largest single plaintiff personal injury recovery in Texas, as well as the largest single plaintiff recovery in a maritime case in Texas history. He obtained the largest premises liability recovery in Texas in 2013, and the largest commercial trucking verdict in Texas 2014.  He has been named to The Best Lawyers in America every year since 2008, and to the list of The Best Lawyers in Texas every year since the publication began. He was named one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Texas by the National Trial Lawyers every year since 2007, Texas Super Lawyers as published in Texas Monthly magazine since 2004, and the Best Lawyers in Houston in H Texas Magazine every year since 2004. He and his firm have been listed by U.S. News and World Report as amongst The Best Law Firms in the country. In 2014 he was awarded the Trial Lawyers Board of Regents Litigator Award, as well as awards for Nation's Top One Percent - National Association of Distinguished Counsel; Top Lawyers in Houstonia Magazine; Best Lawyers in Houston in H Texas Magazine; Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Texas; Top 500 Personal Injury Lawyers in America; Top Lawyers in Houston; and Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. He is also a fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a life fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, each reserved to one third of one percent of attorneys practicing. He serves on the Chancellor's Council of the University of Texas system. 

Upon graduation from The University of Texas School of Law, with Honors, Scott C. Krist was admitted into the following bar admissions, including Texas, 1991; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, 1992; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, 1992; U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1992; U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas, 1992; U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 1991; and the U.S. Supreme Court, 1991.

Attorney Scott Krist is a member of the American Bar Association, Houston Bar Association, Galveston County Bar Association, Houston Trial Lawyers Association, American Association for Justice, State Bar of Texas 2001-2004 Judiciary Relations Committee, College of the State Bar of Texas, State Bar Judiciary Relations Committee, Fifth Federal Circuit Bar Association, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, 1991 – Present, Texas Center for Legal Ethics & Professionalism and the Supreme Court Historical Society.