Posts Tagged ‘monica uddin’
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 […]
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 […]
AZA Recovers $5.1 Million After Four-Week Jury Trial
GALVESTON – After four weeks in trial, AZA’s client, the daughter of a hardworking red snapper fisherman, agreed to a $5.1 million settlement in a probate dispute over revenue from her father’s fishing interests. The settlement reached as jury deliberations were underway amounted to five-times actual damages against the defendants. The defendants had offered $0 to settle the dispute before trial. “The handwriting was […]
AZA Names 3 New Partners with Commercial Litigation, IP Heft
HOUSTON – Three accomplished trial lawyers have been promoted to partner at AZA. They are commercial litigators Monica Uddin and Taylor Freeman and intellectual property lawyer Masood Anjom. Ms. Uddin joined AZA 10 years ago after graduation from the University of Chicago Law School. Since then, she has achieved a long list of courtroom successes, trying cases ranging from partnership breakups to trade secret and patent disputes. Her clients […]
Eleven AZA Associates Make US List of ‘Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch’ for 2021
HOUSTON – Eleven associates with trial law firm AZA, or Ahmad, Zavitsanos & Mensing, have been named to the list of “Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch,” which honors attorneys for outstanding professional excellence early in their careers. The honorees are Weining Bai, Cameron Byrd, Nathan Campbell, Justin Chen, Rey Flores, Justin Rowinsky, Neal Sarkar, Monica Uddin, Kelsi Stayart White and Patrick Yarborough, all selected for their commercial litigation work, and Kyril Talanov, chosen […]
Nine AZA Lawyers Earn 2020 Texas Rising Stars Accolades
HOUSTON – AZA is proud to announce that nine of its attorneys have been named to the 2020 Texas Rising Stars list, which recognizes the state’s leading young lawyers. For the fourth straight year, AZA associate Sammy Ford IV was named a “Top 100 Texas Up & Coming” lawyer for his business litigation skills. Also recognized in the business litigation practice area this […]
Ten AZA Lawyers Earn 2019 Texas Rising Stars Accolades
HOUSTON – AZA, is proud to announce that 10 AZA attorneys have been named to the 2019 Texas Rising Stars list, which recognizes the state’s leading young lawyers. For the third consecutive year, AZA associate Sammy Ford IV was named a “Top 100 Texas Up & Coming” lawyer for his business litigation skills. Also recognized […]
Fourteen AZA Lawyers Earn 2018 Texas Rising Stars Accolades
HOUSTON – AZA, or Ahmad, Zavitsanos & Mensing, is proud to announce that 14 firm attorneys have been named to the 2018 Texas Rising Stars list, which recognizes the state’s leading young lawyers. For the second consecutive year, AZA associate Sammy Ford IV was named a “Top 100 Texas Up & Coming” lawyer for his business litigation […]
Nine from Houston’s AZA Law Firm Earn 2017 Texas Rising Stars Honors
HOUSTON – AZA, or Ahmad, Zavitsanos & Mensing, is pleased to announce that nine firm attorneys have been named to the 2017 Texas Rising Stars list, which recognizes the state’s leading young lawyers. AZA associate Sammy Ford IV was named a “Top 100 Texas Up & Coming” lawyer for his personal injury litigation skills. Associates […]
AZA Lawyer Monica Uddin Quoted in Houston Media for Airport Immigration Aid
HOUSTON – Monica Uddin, an associate at AZA, or Ahmad, Zavitsanos & Mensing, was featured in the Houston Chronicle and Houstonia magazine for her pro bono work helping immigrants detained at Houston’s international airport. Ms. Uddin was quoted in a front-page Houston Chronicle story headlined, Lawyers, aiding those caught in Trump travel ban, sense new […]
Nine from Houston’s AZA Law Firm Earn 2016 Texas Rising Stars Honors
HOUSTON – AZA, or Ahmad, Zavitsanos & Mensing, is proud to announce that nine attorneys from the Houston-based trial law firm have been named to the 2016 Texas Rising Stars list, which recognizes the state’s leading young lawyers. AZA partner Elizabeth Pannill Fletcher and associates Jamie Alan Aycock, Sammy Ford IV, Benjamin Foster, Tiffany Joudi, […]
National Oilwell Varco Beats Mud King In Stolen Trade Secrets Case
HOUSTON – Houston-based National Oilwell Varco LP (NYSE:NOV), the worldwide designer and manufacturer of oil and gas drilling and production equipment, has won nearly $400,000 from Mud King Products Inc. after a bankruptcy judge found that Mud King paid an NOV employee to steal hundreds of NOV’s secret mud pump blueprints that Mud King was […]
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Judgment for CITGO in Employee Race Discrimination Lawsuit
HOUSTON – The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans has upheld a summary judgment in favor of CITGO Petroleum Corp. in a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by an employee who was fired for unprofessional behavior and threatening a co-worker. Attorney Monica Uddin of the Houston law firm AZA, or Ahmad, Zavitsanos & […]