Keith Langston

Keith served as class counsel for the class action in Arnold v. Life Partners, Inc., securing over $1.087 billion of class members’ assets in a securities fraud case. This settlement is one of the largest in U.S. history for the sale of unregistered securities. Keith was also class counsel in Coffey v. Freeport-McMoRan, obtaining a $119 million settlement in a community-wide environmental contamination case for the people of Blackwell, Oklahoma. Keith represented a family in a 2021 wrongful death trucking case where he helped secure a $51 million pretrial settlement and a $730 million verdict, one of the top ten jury verdicts in the country for 2021, as reported by TopVerdict.com.

Keith was the head of the Nix Patterson & Roach’s occupational health litigation practice (2001-11), prosecuting asbestos claims against hundreds of defendants on behalf of more than 8,000 individual plaintiffs. Keith later maintained his own practice from 2012-2022. Keith has additionally maintained a full docket and has tried numerous cases to successful verdicts for his clients, including breach of contract, wrongful death, 18-wheeler collisions, and other personal injury cases.

Keith graduated cum laude from Baylor Law School in 2001. A member of Phi Delta Phi Fraternity, he was a Regional Finalist in the ATLA Mock Trial Team for Baylor Law School. While in law school, he served as Notes and Comments Editor and Executive Editor for Baylor Law Review, and his law review article, “Is Your UIM Policy in Texas ‘Worth Less?’: Henson v. Texas Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co.,” 53 Baylor Law Review 229, 2001, was published in the Baylor Law Review in 2001. Keith was also a member of the Baylor Harvey M. Richey Moot Court Society, and the author of the society’s Bench Brief in 2000. He served as the Vice-President of the Student Bar Association, was honored on the Dean’s List multiple times and was a multiple scholarship recipient. Keith has served as an adjunct trial advocacy professor for Baylor Law School.

A Texas native, Keith earned a B.S. in Molecular Biology from The University of Texas at Austin in 1996 before heading to Washington, D.C., where he served on Congressman Jim Turner’s legislative staff.

Outside the office, Keith is an avid outdoorsman who spends as much time as possible camping, hiking, and backpacking. He is a passionate fly fisherman and attempts to get off grid for a couple of weeks each year in places like Wyoming’s Wind River Range and Minnesota’s BWCA. Keith and his wife Kate reside in Longview, Texas and have four children: William, a recent medical school graduate and ophthalmology resident at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia; Adeline, a TCU graduate working at the Dallas Market Center; Margaret, a junior at TCU studying education; and Thomas, a sophomore at The University of Texas at Austin studying journalism.