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Zehl & Associates Named to 2025 Best Law Firms List

Record-setting personal injury firm selected as a top firm in Houston

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Premier Houston-based personal injury law firm, Zehl & Associates, has earned a place on the 2025 list of Best Law Firms. This honor is bestowed on the country’s foremost legal practitioners by one of the nation’s oldest and most revered peer review legal guides – The Best Lawyers in America.

The firm was selected in the “Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs” category for the Houston metro area. Firms chosen for this list must have at least one attorney on the most recent listing from The Best Lawyers in America. Zehl & Associates has seven: founding partner Ryan Zehl and six of the firm’s trial lawyers who were named to the “Ones to Watch” list. This listing includes trial lawyers Lamar DeLong, Matt Greenberg, Zach McFarlane, Justin Waldo, Justin Warner, and Bryan Zubay.

“Our firm has the finest legal talent you could ask for, and I’m proud to see our entire team being honored in this way by other lawyers and law firms,” said Mr. Zehl.

Zehl and Associates has become known for its impressive record of successful verdicts and settlements. Over the past two decades, the firm has recovered billions of dollars for its clients, including a record $90 million settlement for an oilfield contractor who suffered horrific burns during an oil well blowout in Texas, and a record $100 million settlement for workers injured in a Louisiana refinery explosion.

The firms selected for the Best Law Firms list undergo an exhaustive vetting process that includes peer reviews from top attorneys in similar practice areas, confidential client evaluations, as well as independent surveys, and expert assessments of each firm’s performance. To see the entire list of the 2025 honorees, visit https://www.bestlawfirms.com/.

The Best Lawyers in America was first published in 1983, making it the legal field’s oldest peer-review guide. The publication is still considered among the most trusted and highly regarded in the industry. For more on current honorees and methodology for their selection, visit https://www.bestlawyers.com.

About Zehl & Associates

Zehl & Associates is an undefeated and nationally recognized personal injury law firm based in Houston and Midland, Texas. The firm represents accident victims across Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and the United States, earning a reputation for recovering record-setting verdicts and settlements against the largest oil and gas, petrochemical, trucking, and maritime companies in the world. The firm’s practice areas include truck and 18-wheeler accidents, oilfield accidents, maritime and offshore accidents, plant and refinery accidents, and catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases.

For more information, visit https://www.zehllaw.com/.

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