Roland Christensen

Attorney

9 yrs experience
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Houston, TX

Bar admissions

Texas
Louisiana
California
Pennsylvania
Georgia
Utah
U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
Multiple U.S. District Courts (S/E/W/N Districts)

Education

JD: J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University
Undergraduate: Brigham Young University

Awards and recognition

01Best Lawyers — Personal Injury Litigation Plaintiffs (2026)
02Best Lawyers — Admiralty & Maritime Law (2024-2026)
03Best Lawyers — Product Liability Litigation Plaintiffs (2026)
04National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40
05Super Lawyers Rising Stars (2022-2025)
06Magna Cum Laude — Top 20 of class, BYU Law

Memberships

American Academy of Attorneys

Publications

150-page legal writing manual used at BYU Law
Lead Editor, BYU Law Review

Background

Roland Christensen is a trial lawyer at Arnold & Itkin LLP focusing exclusively on catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases. He began at Arnold & Itkin as a law clerk in 2015 and joined as an attorney after being admitted to the Texas bar in November 2016. He has been the driving force on some of the firm's largest and most complex cases. While at BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School, he was lead editor for the BYU Law Review, the highest achiever in his legal writing and advanced appellate brief classes, and spent two years as a legal writing teaching assistant — even authoring a 150-page legal writing manual used by first-year writing classes at the school.

Notable cases

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$411 million verdict (Brock Services scaffolding) — largest single-plaintiff personal injury verdict in Louisiana history (2025)
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$209.2 million wrongful death/Hantavirus verdict
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$193 million pipeline explosion settlement
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$77.5 million settlement for Houston family man paralyzed in workplace incident
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Part of trial team on $8 billion Johnson & Johnson verdict
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$2.25 billion Roundup verdict (team)

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