Kolter Jennings

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.

Kolter earned his bachelor's degree in Business Management — with an emphasis in Human Resources Management and Organizational Theory — from the University of Texas at Arlington, and his J.D. from Texas A&M University School of Law. Early in his career he worked on a trial team representing a severely injured man in a case that produced a jury verdict recognized as one of the Top 100 Verdicts in the United States for 2015. Before joining Patterson Law Group, Kolter practiced at a well-established Fort Worth firm, where he gained extensive courtroom and motion-practice experience.

Trial and litigation focus: Kolter has first-chair and second-chair trial experience across Texas in personal injury and wrongful death; negligence and gross negligence; auto, trucking, and other transportation crashes; products liability and dangerous or defective products; premises liability, including unsafe property and slip-and-fall claims; business litigation and contract disputes; fraud and fraudulent transfer; breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract; claims under the Texas Theft Liability Act; and claims under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA).

Professional recognition: Fort Worth Magazine "Top Attorneys" (2019–2026); 360 West Magazine "Top Attorneys" (2016–2026); Texas Super Lawyers – Rising Stars (2021–2026); and Top 40 Under 40 trial-lawyer recognition.

Professional memberships: Tarrant County Trial Lawyers (member and current board member); Tarrant County Trial Lawyers Young Lawyers (member and past board member); Dallas Trial Lawyers Association; Texas Trial Lawyers Association; Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation; the Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity, International; and the Institute of Transportation Engineers.

Admissions: all Texas state courts, including the Supreme Court of Texas; the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas; the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas; and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.

Outside the office, Kolter enjoys spending time with his wife, their three children, and their dog, Pi. He remains close with his four older sisters and two older brothers and is a proud uncle many times over.