Kolter Jennings

"Kolter joined Patterson Law Group because he wanted to focus his legal career on helping the injured have their voices heard." Kolter Jennings is a partner and trial attorney at Patterson Law Group, representing injured Texans in personal injury and civil litigation across Fort Worth and throughout the state. His practice focuses on catastrophic car, motorcycle, and commercial-vehicle crashes; trucking and 18-wheeler collisions involving federal and state safety violations; wrongful death arising from auto, trucking, premises, and product defects; catastrophic injuries including spinal cord and disc injuries, traumatic brain injuries, burns, and amputations; premises liability involving serious injury, such as unsafe property, falls, and negligent security; and product liability for dangerous or defective consumer products. A native Texan, Kolter grew up in Arlington as the youngest of seven children in an entrepreneurial family. From an early age he worked in his family's lap-desk business, where he helped develop consumer products, navigate regulatory compliance, and protect patents, trademarks, and other intellectual property. That hands-on experience with contracts, risk, and the legal side of running a business led him to law school and informs the way he now evaluates liability, damages, and insurance-coverage disputes. Kolter chose personal injury law because he believes ordinary people should not be ruined financially or emotionally by dangers they did not create. When catastrophic injuries and wrongful death are thrust into a family's life, he sees his role as making sure powerful defendants and their insurers cannot walk away from the harm they caused. That David-versus-Goliath fight — taking on corporations, contractors, and commercial carriers to win full compensation for his clients — is what motivates him. In most personal injury and wrongful death cases, the individual or company in the courtroom is defended by lawyers hired and paid by an insurance company. Jurors are never told that insurers drive many of these defenses, or that in the vast majority of cases it is the insurance company — not the individual or business on trial — that ultimately pays any settlement or judgment. Kolter believes many of the technical, blame-shifting defenses injured people face are fueled by insurers trying to avoid paying full value on valid claims, and he sees part of his job as pushing back so his clients receive the accountability and compensation the law allows.