Case Summaries
Important Cases Demand Real Trial Lawyers
From complex commercial disputes to intellectual property, energy, catastrophic injury and more, AZA handles cases where the stakes are high. Our results below show the power of being ready for trial.
In September 2025, AZA won a $78,512,999 patent infringement verdict in the Eastern District of Texas on behalf of two inventors against tech titan Samsung. AZA’s client,…
In September 2024, AZA won a $25.6 million breach of contract jury verdict in Harris County court in a case pitting AZA client doctors’ group Fondren Orthopedic Ltd. against…
Working in concert with the federal government for five years, lawyers at AZA saw their whistleblower client receive $3 million of the $15 million settlement of a lawsuit…
In April 2024, the Supreme Court of Texas agreed with AZA’s appellate team when it found that a trial court abused its discretion when it failed to dismiss a case against…
In a business divorce trial where the plaintiff presented damages of up to $82 million, a Harris County jury unanimously found he should take nothing and returned a verdict…
In a case that has already changed Texas sexual harassment law, a jury awarded $250,000 to a female firefighter whose supervisor obtained an intimate video made for her…
In February 2024, AZA zeroed out at trial a breach of contract and fraud claim brought against its client, Vertex Alabama, a fuel refiner. Martin Energy sought several…
In October 2023, a Harris County jury awarded AZA client Odessa Pumps $2.4 million in attorneys’ fees in a breach of contract case against GR Energy and its affiliates over a…
In August 2023, a federal judge in California granted summary judgment for an international energy company represented by AZA in a $10 million offshore platform wrongful…
In a complex six-week case involving the construction of Houston Midtown apartments, a Harris County jury awarded AZA client, Mid Main Properties LLP, $32.5 million. The jury…
In June 2023, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Fair Labor Standards Act case summary judgment win for AZA client FMC Technologies Inc., a global provider of…
AZA defeated a $5 million breach of contract claim for a Houston-based fuel company that was sued by an international fuel trader. A Harris County district judge ruled in May…
An arbitration panel awarded $3.4 million to AZA client, MMWKM Advisors, which does business as Retirement Planners of America (RPOA), a Plano-based investment advisory firm,…
In February 2023, AZA and Hogan Thompson law firm teamed up to win their two clients a total of $41.8 million from a South Texas jury in an oil and gas trespass case. A…
In December 2022, the board of directors of Ben & Jerry’s, the premium ice cream brand known for its social awareness, successfully and confidentially settled a dispute…
In December 2022, AZA won its appeal to keep a client’s personal injury claim in Houston, rejecting the defendant company’s effort to move the case out of state. The lawsuit…
In August 2022, a Collin County judge affirmed a $1.4 million arbitration award against a former employee who breached his contractual and fiduciary obligations to MMWKM…
In March 2022, a jury in U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes' court returned a $28 million verdict for AZA client, the Port of Houston, in a breach of contract dispute with…
In early 2022, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Melinda Abbt v. City of Houston reversed a hostile work environment summary judgment order in a Houston…
In one day in 2021 AZA appellate practice member Judge Daryl Moore argued two back-to-back governmental immunity cases for the City of San Antonio before the Texas Supreme…
In a closely watched December 2021 trial, a Nevada jury handed AZA client TeamHealth yet another trial victory on behalf of underpaid emergency room doctors, this time with a…
A Harris County jury awarded $19.1 million to a group of emergency room doctors in June 2021 in the first case in the nation to litigate emergency room physicians’…
AZA prevailed at the Supreme Court of Texas in April 2021 on behalf of client Apache Corp. This victory paved the way for Apache to proceed in its arbitration against Wagner…
A six-person jury in August 2020 awarded a $9.4 million verdict on behalf of Southeastern Emergency Physicians, LLC, an affiliate of TeamHealth Inc., finding that Centene…
Following three weeks of grisly testimony about a tragic 2018 oil rig explosion that killed five, jurors nevertheless found that AZA client National Oilwell Varco (NOV) was…
A federal judge in August 2018 awarded $12.2 million to National Oilwell Varco (NOV) from three former high-level employees based in Dubai who participated in various schemes…
AZA defeated a nationally-known civil rights lawyer when the firm secured a victory for client National Oilwell Varco in a discrimination lawsuit filed by employees seeking…
AZA prevailed for a client with $115 million at stake in an energy sector lawsuit filed by more than 100 oil and gas producers. SemCrude, a major midstream oil and gas…
This case was a $11.4 million jury win in a business disparagement lawsuit for a Houston technology company. Function One hired AZA midway through the litigation to defend…
AZA was hired by Plains in the defense of a $400 million trespass case in Texas’ oil-rich Permian Basin. AZA’s aggressive and creative pretrial motions stripped down this…
In only five months, AZA helped client Charlotte Rutherford get four-fifths of her case dismissed and those who sued her slapped with record high fees and sanctions totaling…
In this energy sector contract lawsuit, AZA prevailed on all claims in a jury trial and obtained a permanent injunction against its client’s opponent. This case shows AZA’s…
AZA defended Plains All American Pipeline against BP Oil Pipeline Company’s claims for indemnity in a pipeline dispute. The court later awarded Plains Pipeline $453,400 in…
AZA defended Mistras Group, Inc., a major nondestructive testing provider, against claims for trademark infringement and dilution brought by Sentinel Integrity Solutions Inc.…
AZA, successfully represented Milo Nickel and Michael LeBlanc, former executives of plaintiff MBI Global LLC., a manufacturer of modular blast-resistant buildings. MBI…
Sentinel Integrity Solutions, Inc. v. Mistras Group, Inc., et al. AZA successfully defended Mistras Group, Inc. and its employees in a $9 million lawsuit alleging breach of…
AZA developed the winning argument that knocked this $46.5 million fraud and breach of contract case out of court before AZA’s client was even required to participate in…