Rand Nolen

Rand Nolen is board certified in personal injury trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Rand joined Fleming | Nolen | Jez, L.L.P., f/k/a Fleming & Associates, L.L.P. in 1997, and since that time has been one of the firm’s most active trial lawyers. Rand Nolen has tried cases against some of the largest companies in the world including Exxon, Wyeth, Pfizer, ConocoPhillips, Ford Motor Company, Sanofi, and AbbVie. Rand has tried cases to verdict in the state courts of Texas, Oregon, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Illinois. He has also tried cases to verdict in the federal courts for the Southern, Western Districts of Texas, and Eastern District of Louisiana.

Selected to Super Lawyers: 2012 – 2022

 

Experience & Admissions

In addition to litigating and trying lawsuits, Rand Nolen briefs and argues appeals. Rand has argued appeals before the Texas Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Seventh Circuit, the Tenth Circuit, both Houston Courts of Appeals, the Texarkana Court of Appeals, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Rand Nolen is admitted to practice law in the State of Texas. He is also admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the First, Third, Fifth, Seventh, and Tenth Circuits, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He is admitted in the United States District Courts for the Southern, Western, Northern, and Eastern Districts of Texas, the United States District of New Mexico, and the United States Court of Federal Claims.

 

Dedicated Career, Trial Success

A native Texan, Rand Nolen graduated from Westbury High School and later received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Stephen F. Austin State University. He received his Juris Doctorate from South Texas College of Law. During law school, Rand Nolen clerked at the Houston litigation firm Tucker, Hendryx & Gascoyne, P.C., and upon graduation accepted an associate’s position. Over the next four years, Rand gained significant jury trial and appellate experience. He also worked in mass tort litigation involving polybutylene plumbing, breast implants, and toxic underground chemicals.

After joining George Fleming’s firm, Rand Nolen has represented plaintiffs in mass actions for various products including litigations related to: Fen-Phen diet drug, Ford-Firestone rollover, Asbestos, RezulinTM diabetes drug, HydroxycutTM, Accutane®, Ortho Evra® Contraceptive Patch, Hormone Replacement Therapy, AndroGel® Testosterone Replacement Therapy, Taxotere® permanent hair loss, Inferior Vena Cava filters, Roundup®, and many others.

 

Judicial Appointments And Committees

Rand Nolen was appointed by United States Judge Kurt Engelhardt to serve on the Plaintiffs Steering Committee – In Re: TAXOTERE (DOCETAXEL) PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION, MDL NO. 2740, United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana.

He was appointed by United States Judge Susan G. Braden Co-Lead Counsel for Downstream Plaintiffs as to Pre-Trial Discovery, Dispositive Motions for Partial or Summary Judgement and/or Cross-Motions and/or a Trial on Liability, and Scheduling – In Re Downstream Addicks And Barker (Texas) Flood-Control Reservoirs, Sub-Master Docket No. 17-cv-9002L, United States Court of Federal Claims.

Rand Nolen was appointed class counsel in Harry Snowden, Individually and as Representative of All Persons Similarly Situated v. Farmers Insurance Company, Inc.; Cause No. CIV-2000 (Cir. Ct. of Faulkner County, Arkansas, First Division, July 2009), which certified a settlement class benefiting Arkansas Farmers Insurance policyholders who had suffered diminished value to their vehicles as a result of accidents.

Rand Nolen was appointed class counsel in Royce Yarbrough, Individually And As Representative Of The Class Of All Similarly Situated Persons v. ConocoPhillips Company, et al., Cause No. 99-DCV-107968 (In the 268th Judicial District, Fort Bend County, Texas), which certified a settlement class for the underpayment of gas royalties.

Rand Nolen served for 19 years as a member of the Mississippi Litigation Group in IN RE: BOGALUSA CHEMICAL RELEASE, Circuit Court for the First Judicial District, Hinds County, Mississippi.