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Trent Shelton

Attorney

  • 5 yrs experience
  • Houston, TX
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Bar admissions
  • Texas
  • Louisiana
Education
J.D., magna cum laude
Baylor Law School2020
Undergraduate
Oral Roberts University2017
Awards and recognition
  1. 01Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch (2023-2026)
Memberships
  • Baylor Law Review (Associate Editor)
  • Order of the Barristers

Background

Trent Shelton is a trial attorney at Arnold & Itkin LLP in Houston, where he focuses on personal injury, product liability, offshore and maritime injuries, plant and refinery accidents, truck accidents, wrongful death, and other catastrophic injury matters. Trent joined Arnold & Itkin in 2020 immediately after law school. The day after passing the Texas bar, he was already in the courtroom, and just three days into his first trial the defendants settled at the policy limits of $1 million. In his first three years as an attorney, he has secured over $80 million in verdicts and settlements as lead counsel, including a $33.5 million verdict in a burn case and a $9.5 million settlement for an injured oilfield worker who sustained a traumatic brain injury and required back and neck surgeries. Trent grew up in Hughes Springs, Texas, and credits baseball with teaching him important life lessons. He earned his B.A. cum laude from Oral Roberts University and his J.D. magna cum laude from Baylor Law School (top 8% of class), where he was an associate editor of the Baylor Law Review, a member of the Order of the Barristers, and competed on Baylor's national moot court team.

Notable cases

  • $33.5 million verdict in burn case

  • $9.5 million settlement for injured oilfield worker with traumatic brain injury

  • $1 million policy-limits settlement in first trial

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