Personal Background
Alex Abston is a Senior Attorney who focuses on complex litigation disputes within the Firm’s Business Litigation practice group.
Alex’s trial advocacy foundation shapes her strategic approach to dispute resolution. Most recently, Alex spent years as a member of the Firm’s trial team assisting with high-stakes mass tort cases. Her work has been instrumental in securing many notable Lanier jury trial verdicts, including one of the nation’s first federal jury verdicts in MDL 2804, In re: National Prescription Opiate Litigation.
Alex considers it an honor and a privilege to amplify her clients’ voices in their pursuit of justice. She approaches all disputes first from a “human” perspective, then a legal one. As she puts it, “If you forget the humanity of our practice, you lose the purpose of what we’re doing.”
Her tenure with the Firm spans over 15 years, beginning with a high school internship and evolving to include time within all the Firm’s various practice groups. Her diverse practice has bridged practice groups to include litigation relating to products liability, commercial litigation disputes, deceptive trade practices, asbestos exposure, antitrust violations, and pharmaceutical and medical device industry disputes. Previously, she clerked at a prominent complex litigation firm where she concentrated on products liability and civil sexual abuse litigation.
Alex is a native Texan who loves Houston sports and spending time with her family and their golden retrievers.
Representative Cases
- Member of the trial team that obtained one of the nation’s first federal jury verdicts within MDL 2804, In re: National Prescription Opiate Litigation.
- Represented multiple counties within federal and state litigations addressing the improper promotion, distribution, and dispensing of opioid medications and the resulting devastation of the opioid epidemic.
- Member of the trial team who obtained a federal jury verdict against a prominent national railroad on behalf of plaintiffs impacted by the Libby, Montana asbestos disaster.
- Assisted in representing hundreds of former coal miners in consolidated actions against disposable mask manufacturers.
- Represented both companies and individuals in complex matters within federal and state courts.
- Member of the trial team who represented thousands of EpiPen class action purchasers in a federal antitrust class action alleging manufacturers’ anticompetitive conduct and practices.
- Assisted in representing plaintiffs and their families in asbestos‐related suits stemming from the use of talcum powder products.
- Member of the trial team representing 17 states and territories in a multistate lawsuit alleging deceptive trade practices and antitrust violations in the advertising technology industry.
- Member of an environmental class action trial team who represented a certified class of approximately 3,200 California homeowners alleging that contaminated water, soil, and air migrated into their residential neighborhood.
- Member of the trial team representing the State of Arkansas in an antitrust and deceptive trade practices action regarding two pesticide manufacturers’ rebate programs.
- Assists with the representation of the State of Texas in suits against various pharmaceutical companies regarding alleged violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the Texas Health Care Program Fraud Prevention Act.
Community and Professional Activities
- American Association for Justice
- The National Trial Lawyers
- The Lanier Trial Academy