Jason Itkin

Many consider Jason Itkin to be the nation’s top trial lawyer. He has won several of the largest jury verdicts in United States history, including an $8 billion record-breaking verdict against Johnson & Johnson, a record-setting $2.25 billion verdict against Monsanto, and a historic $860 million wrongful death verdict in Texas, a $175 million product liability verdict, a $117 million verdict in Louisiana, and a $100 million personal injury verdict.

Jason is the rare lawyer whose success in front of juries translates into success negotiating settlements against large corporations. Jason has been the architect of several settlements where the amounts paid to Arnold & Itkin’s clients each exceeded $1 billion. In the last 12 months alone, Jason has won more than $3.5 billion in verdicts and settlements for his clients.

Biography

Jason has won billions of dollars for his clients.

Jason Itkin is known nationwide for winning record-breaking verdicts and settlements. Jason is one of only a handful of lawyers in the country who have won more than one jury verdict for a single person in excess of one billion dollars. He has also won several verdicts and settlements for more than $100 million, dozens of verdicts and settlements of more than $10 million, and hundreds of verdicts and settlements for more than $1 million. Jason won these victories in courtrooms across the country—having represented clients in all 50 states.

Jason is routinely asked to work on the country’s highest-profile cases. He has won verdicts for children in jury trials against major pharmaceutical companies. He has also won game-changing victories for cancer victims against some of the world’s most powerful companies. After the BP Oil Spill, more of the workers injured in the explosion trusted Jason over any other lawyer to handle their cases.

Jason’s success in the courtroom has helped him negotiate massive settlements for his clients. Jason has been the lead negotiator on several settlements where the companies paid Arnold & Itkin’s clients more than $1 billion. Jason also works on important cases that don’t always grab headlines. For example, he achieved a $72 million voluntary settlement for an injured worker. At the time, that victory was the largest pretrial settlement for a single person in Texas history. Less than one year later, Jason broke his own record when he secured an $86 million voluntary settlement for a different client who suffered devastating injuries while working. Since then, Jason and the firm have broken the $86 million record multiple times. In just the last year, Jason has settled cases for single individuals in the amounts of $211 million, $209 million, $160 million, and $140 million. Jason has won more than $3.5 billion in verdicts and settlements for his clients over the last 12 months.

Jason is able to achieve these record-breaking settlements because sophisticated companies realize that their results at trial could be much worse. For example, Jason tried a case where an insurance company refused to make a fair settlement offer to his client. The company’s short-sighted settlement position changed after Jason finished cross-examining the company’s “star witness.” After the cross-examination, the company fired its long-time lawyer in the middle of the trial. The next day, the company settled the case for nearly double what Jason’s client would have settled for pretrial. The company also formally apologized to Jason’s client for injuring him.

Results like these are why other law firms frequently ask Jason to work on their cases. More than 200 different law firms have hired Jason as trial counsel. Lawyers across the nation know that having Jason Itkin on their team increases the likelihood of winning a large verdict or settlement.

Jason has been recognized as being among the very best of the best.

Jason’s results have led him to receive many awards, including recognition as the Lawyer of the Year by U.S. News and the National Trial Lawyers Association. Jason routinely appears on various lists of best lawyers from Forbes, Super Lawyers, and others. While Jason has always been honored to be included on those lists, his greatest honor was being selected as a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates. The Inner Circle’s membership is comprised of the top 100 trial attorneys in the United States. Jason was selected to join the Inner Circle before the age of 40, making him the elite organization’s youngest member. In 2024, the Inner Circle selected Jason to be its Vice-President and President-Elect, where he will carry on the tradition of helping the nation’s best trial lawyers become even better.

Jason credits much of his success to his education at the University of Texas. He believes the school’s motto of “What Starts Here Changes the World” applies to the work he does on behalf of families every single day. As an honors graduate from the University of Texas School of Law, Jason was awarded the Dean’s Achievement Award in Professional Responsibility. In college, he studied under the Plan II Honors Program, serving as President of the Silver Spurs and graduating with special honors. The University of Texas School of Law has recently honored Jason with an Alumni Award for his groundbreaking contributions to mentoring the next generation of great trial lawyers.

Jason is married to Kisha Itkin, President of Napa Valley’s Theorem Vineyards and Theorem Ranch. Together with their children, the Itkins are active members and proud supporters of the Houston, Napa, and Montana communities. They love giving back to the community individually and through the Arnold & Itkin Foundation.