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Eleven AZA Lawyers Named Super Lawyers, Two in Top 100 for Texas 

HOUSTON – Eleven AZA lawyers earned 2024 recognition by Texas Super Lawyers for excellence largely in business litigation, general litigation and appellate work.   Firm co-founders Joe Ahmad and John Zavitsanos were once again listed among the Top 100 lawyers in Texas and in Houston. Mr. Zavitsanos is listed for business litigation expertise. Mr. Ahmad, who […]

Kevin Leyendecker Named Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America 

HOUSTON – AZA partner Kevin Leyendecker has been named a fellow of the invitation-only Litigation Counsel of America, an honorary society with a limited number of members.  The Litigation Counsel of America was established to reflect the new face of the American bar. Membership in the group is limited nationally to 3,500 fellows, representing less […]

AZA Earns Prestigious Chambers USA Rankings for the 11th Year in a Row

HOUSTON – AZA earned top ratings in Texas for two practice areas and five individual lawyers from Chambers USA, the gold standard of legal ratings. This marks the 11th year AZA was rated in the general commercial litigation category and the fourth year for its intellectual property (IP) practice.  “Ahmad, Zavitsanos & Mensing are phenomenal. […]

John Zavitsanos Named to Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers 

HOUSTON – AZA co-founder John Zavitsanos, who has been named to Lawdragon’s national leading lawyers and leading litigators lists this year, has been named to the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers list.     Mr. Zavitsanos was named to the plaintiff financial lawyers list for his expertise in commercial litigation, intellectual property and securities. The […]

AZA Co-founders Ahmad and Zavitsanos Named Lawdragon Leading Lawyers in America

HOUSTON – AZA co-founders Joe Ahmad and John Zavitsanos were named to the 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America list.  Mr. Ahmad was cited for his work in commercial litigation and for expertise in labor and employment litigation, especially in executive representation. Mr. Zavitsanos was cited for his commercial litigation expertise. Messrs. Ahmad and […]

Jury Says No Back Wages for Former First-Year Associate Pfeiffer 

HOUSTON – It took a Harris County jury only an hour, including lunch, to find that Justin Carl Pfeiffer, a former associate at the Houston firm of Berg & Androphy, was not owed any of the back pay he so contentiously claimed.   At trial, Mr. Pfeiffer demanded $50,000 in back pay. He claimed he was […]

Jury Refuses to Find Against Odessa Pumps; Awards It $2.4 Million

HOUSTON – 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 2021 asset purchase. GR Energy sought approximately $30 million but took nothing. This is AZA’s 17th trial this year. In winning this case, it has […]

Nine AZA Lawyers Named 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators 

HOUSTON – Nine partners at AZA were named by Lawdragon among the 500 top litigators in the nation who they call “the advisors you want to send into battle.” Lawyers named in the 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America were selected based on journalistic research, submissions and vetting. This is its second edition “assessing America’s […]

Twenty-Six AZA Lawyers Honored as Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch  

HOUSTON – Twenty-six AZA lawyers, more than half of all the attorneys in the litigation boutique, were honored in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, the nation’s oldest peer review guide to leading lawyers.    Thirteen AZA lawyers were named Best Lawyers and another 13 were named as Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, […]

John Zavitsanos Named Again to Lawdragon’s 500 Top Plaintiff Financial Lawyers List 

HOUSTON – AZA co-founding partner John Zavitsanos has been named once again to The 2023 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers. Mr. Zavitsanos is honored in the 2023 list for his representation of plaintiffs in commercial litigation, intellectual property, and securities litigation cases.  In announcing the 2023 list, Lawdragon’s editors said of the honorees: “this […]

AZA Client Raymond Chang Named ACC General Counsel of the Year  After Hard-Earned Jury Win 

HOUSTON – DistributionNOW (DNOW) General Counsel Raymond Chang was honored for his perseverance by the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Houston Chapter and The Texas Lawbook with the 2023 Houston Corporate Counsel Award for General Counsel of the Year for a Midsized Legal Department.  Mr. Chang won in large part for the way he managed a grueling piece […]

Texas Jury returns nearly $9M verdict against Toby Eoff and others involved in conspiracy against energy giant 

RICHMOND, TX – A unanimous Fort Bend County jury late Wednesday found that prominent Odessa businessman Toby Eoff willfully and maliciously conspired with other former employees of DistributionNOW (DNOW) to steal the energy sector giant’s trade secrets.   The verdict included a finding that Mr. Eoff breached his fiduciary duty to Houston-based DNOW when he conspired […]

Five AZA Partners Named Leading Litigators in America 

HOUSTON – Lawdragon named five AZA partners to its list of Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America.  Firm co-founders Joe Ahmad and John Zavitsanos were named along with partners Todd Mensing, Jane Langdell Robinson, and Monica Uddin. Lawdragon said this list was “dedicated to those attorneys who excel representing principally corporations and other organizations in […]

Nine AZA Lawyers On the Super Lawyers List; Two in Texas Top 100 

HOUSTON – Nine AZA lawyers earned 2022 recognition by Texas Super Lawyers for excellence in business litigation and appellate work.  AZA co-founders Joe Ahmad and John Zavitsanos were both listed among the Top 100 lawyers in Texas and in Houston. Mr. Zavitsanos, who was highlighted in the article “Going 20 for 20”  in Super Lawyers […]

Texas Lawyer Magazine Yet Again Names AZA Litigation Department of the Year 

HOUSTON – AZA was once again chosen by Texas Lawyer magazine as the best boutique-sized litigation department in Texas. This is the third time the firm has earned the honor in just the last eight years. AZA was named best Texas boutique litigation department in 2019 and in 2015. And in 2017, the firm won […]

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