Jordan Warshauer

Partner

Jordan Warshauer

Partner

  • P: 713-600-4980
  • F: 713-655-0062
  • jwarshauer@azalaw.com
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Jordan Warshauer focuses on complex commercial litigation, including breach of contract, business torts, trade secret misappropriation, and trademark infringement. She also has extensive experience in employment law, including wage-and-hour collective actions and class actions, discrimination claims, and breaches of covenants not to compete. Her clients include individuals, multinational chemical companies, publicly traded companies in the energy sector, and medical practices.

Ms. Warshauer has had an active role in multiple trials in state and federal court, including opening and closing statements, direct examination of experts, and cross examination of key witnesses.

Ms. Warshauer has experience in all pretrial stages of litigation, such as obtaining restraining orders and injunctions, drafting and arguing dispositive motions, taking depositions of fact and expert witnesses, and working with computer forensic experts.

Her recent representative matters include defeating claims of roughly $15 million for a refiner sued for fraud, trade secret misappropriation, and breach of contract while prevailing on her client’s counterclaim after a federal bench trial, winning punitive damages in a jury trial on behalf of a female firefighter, and defeating class certification in a multi-million-dollar overtime case on behalf of a midstream services company.

Her pro bono work has included representing a local non-profit organization in a trademark infringement suit and volunteering for the Houston Bar Association Legal Line.

She graduated with honors from The University of Texas School of Law. She then served as a law clerk for Judge David Hittner, a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, where she refined her legal research and writing skills by drafting orders on civil and criminal motions and assisting Judge Hittner during numerous jury trials.

During law school, she interned in New Orleans for Judge Lance Africk, a judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. She graduated with distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jordan Warshauer focuses on complex commercial litigation, including breach of contract, business torts, trade secret misappropriation, and trademark infringement. She also has extensive experience in employment law, including wage-and-hour collective actions and class actions, discrimination claims, and breaches of covenants not to compete. Her clients include individuals, multinational chemical companies, publicly traded companies in the energy sector, and medical practices.

Ms. Warshauer has had an active role in multiple trials in state and federal court, including opening and closing statements, direct examination of experts, and cross examination of key witnesses.

Ms. Warshauer has experience in all pretrial stages of litigation, such as obtaining restraining orders and injunctions, drafting and arguing dispositive motions, taking depositions of fact and expert witnesses, and working with computer forensic experts.

Her recent representative matters include defeating claims of roughly $15 million for a refiner sued for fraud, trade secret misappropriation, and breach of contract while prevailing on her client’s counterclaim after a federal bench trial, winning punitive damages in a jury trial on behalf of a female firefighter, and defeating class certification in a multi-million-dollar overtime case on behalf of a midstream services company.

Her pro bono work has included representing a local non-profit organization in a trademark infringement suit and volunteering for the Houston Bar Association Legal Line.

She graduated with honors from The University of Texas School of Law. She then served as a law clerk for Judge David Hittner, a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, where she refined her legal research and writing skills by drafting orders on civil and criminal motions and assisting Judge Hittner during numerous jury trials.

During law school, she interned in New Orleans for Judge Lance Africk, a judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. She graduated with distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

EDUCATION

  • The University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with honors, May 2014
    • Development and Staff Editor – The Review of Litigation
    • William O. Huie Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Law
    • National Ethics Trial Competition
    • Novice Intramural Mock Trial Tournament
    • Assault and Flattery Law School Theatre Group, Director
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., with distinction, May 2011

BAR ADMISSIONS

  • State Bar of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

HONORS and AWARDS

  • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, 2022-2026
  • Texas Rising Stars, Thomson Reuters, 2023-2024
  • Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation, 2024-2026
  • Recipient of the Anti-Defamation League’s 2026 Daniel R. Ginsberg Award

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS

  • Houston Bar Association
    • Co-Chair of Lawyers for Literacy Committee (2021-2022)
  • Federal Bar Association, Southern District of Texas Chapter
  • Anti-Defamation League (“ADL”), Southwest Region
    • Board Member
    • Co-Chair of Civil Rights and Antisemitism Committee
  • Houston Association of Women Attorneys
  • Houston Public Library Foundation Prologue Society
  • Houston Urban Debate League Young Professionals Council
  • Texas Bar Foundation Fellow
  • Houston Bar Foundation Fellow

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

  • Moderator, Essentials of Business Law: Texas Business Courts, Texas Bar Association, March 2026
  • Moderator, Get to Know the Federal Bench, Federal Bar Association, June 2024
  • Panelist, Building Community: A Celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Jewish American Heritage Month, CLE co-sponsored by the ADL, Asian American Bar Association, South Asian Bar Association, OCA, JACL, and RISE AAPI, May 2023
  • Panelist, How to Succeed as an Associate, Houston Young Lawyers Association, October 2017

IN THE NEWS

EDUCATION
  • The University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with honors, May 2014
    • Development and Staff Editor – The Review of Litigation
    • William O. Huie Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Law
    • National Ethics Trial Competition
    • Novice Intramural Mock Trial Tournament
    • Assault and Flattery Law School Theatre Group, Director
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., with distinction, May 2011
BAR ADMISSIONS
  • State Bar of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
HONORS and AWARDS
  • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, 2022-2026
  • Texas Rising Stars, Thomson Reuters, 2023-2024
  • Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation, 2024-2026
  • Recipient of the Anti-Defamation League’s 2026 Daniel R. Ginsberg Award
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS
  • Houston Bar Association
    • Co-Chair of Lawyers for Literacy Committee (2021-2022)
  • Federal Bar Association, Southern District of Texas Chapter
  • Anti-Defamation League (“ADL”), Southwest Region
    • Board Member
    • Co-Chair of Civil Rights and Antisemitism Committee
  • Houston Association of Women Attorneys
  • Houston Public Library Foundation Prologue Society
  • Houston Urban Debate League Young Professionals Council
  • Texas Bar Foundation Fellow
  • Houston Bar Foundation Fellow
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
  • Moderator, Essentials of Business Law: Texas Business Courts, Texas Bar Association, March 2026
  • Moderator, Get to Know the Federal Bench, Federal Bar Association, June 2024
  • Panelist, Building Community: A Celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Jewish American Heritage Month, CLE co-sponsored by the ADL, Asian American Bar Association, South Asian Bar Association, OCA, JACL, and RISE AAPI, May 2023
  • Panelist, How to Succeed as an Associate, Houston Young Lawyers Association, October 2017

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