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= Brent Goudarzi = Joel Brent Goudarzi (born May 5, 1969) is an American attorney who currently resides in Longview, Texas and is the founding partner of law firm Goudarzi & Young, LLP.

Goudarzi is a personal injury lawyer and focuses on cases involving car accidents, 18-wheeler accidents, and wrongful death cases.

Early Life
Goudarzi was born in Gilmer, Texas and attended Gilmer High School (Gilmer, Texas).

Education
Goudarzi graduated from Texas Tech University in 1993 where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Juris Doctor from Texas Tech University School of Law in 1996.

Career
Goudarzi was admitted to the bar in 1997 and founded his law firm, Goudarzi & Young Law LLP. in 1997 with partner, Marty Young.

Goudarzi is a past President of the East Texas Trial Lawyers Association (2011-2017) and currently serves on its board of directors in the capacity of Director Emeritus. Goudarzi has been honored as a Texas Super Lawyer (2012-present) (Super Lawyers recognition is a Thomson Reuters service), a National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyer (2013-present), a Trial Lawyers Board of Regents Litigator Award winner (2014-present) (ranked top 1% of lawyers), and a National Association of Distinguished Counsel member (2015-present) and a member of the American Academy of Trial Attorneys – Premier 100 (2015-present).

Mr. Goudarzi is also a member of the American Association for Justice, the Million Dollar and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum (2013-present), the Honorable T. John Ward American Inn of Court and the Upshur County Bar Association.

Goudarzi is the 2024 sitting President of the National Trial Lawyers Association, an organization of over 60,000 trial lawyers from all across the nation.

Notable Cases
In 2019, Goudarzi settled a record $140 million case involving an 18-wheeler accident that resulted in the victim having quadriplegia. In 2021 Goudarzi recovered the largest trucking verdict in U.S. history, $730 million. In 2022, Goudarzi settled another trucking accident case for $150 million. Finally, in 2023, Goudarzi settled another truck wreck fatality for $125 million --the largest single-plaintiff settlement in U.S. history.

Goudarzi has also settled hundreds of cases for over $1 million dollars and others for over $10 million that cannot be listed due to confidentiality issues.