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John Zavitsanos Named to Lawdragon 100 Managing Partners You Need to Know 2025 List
HOUSTON – John Zavitsanos, a co-founder of AZA, was named to the Lawdragon 100 Managing Partners You Need to Know 2025. Lawdragon editors wrote that they researched the innovation, focus and drive these 100 lawyers around the nation bring to their firms. Their list has “representatives from firms large and small, corporate and litigation, plaintiff […]
AZA Once Again Named Among the Nation’s ‘Most Feared’ Law Firms
HOUSTON – On a list dominated by national and international law firms, Houston’s litigation boutique AZA was named by this country’s legal decision makers as one of the top firms they do not want to see on the other side of a lawsuit. The 2025 list was compiled by BTI Consulting, a group that annually […]
More than half of AZA’s attorneys honored as Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch
HOUSTON – Twenty-nine AZA lawyers were honored in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, the nation’s oldest lawyer peer review guide. Once again, this represents more than half of the law firm being honored. Fourteen AZA lawyers were named Best Lawyers, and fifteen were named as Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, an […]
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 […]
Vault’s 2025 Career Guide Puts AZA among Top Midsize Firms in U.S. and Texas
HOUSTON – AZA was rated the 11th-best midsize firm to work for in the country and the sixth-best in Texas by the 2025 Vault career guide. AZA was also ranked in the guide among the top five midsize firms in quality of work and selectivity, and was top 10 in compensation, satisfaction and diversity Vault’s […]
AZA Aids U.S. in Reaching $15 Million Baylor Heart Surgery Medicare Fraud Settlement
Whistleblower claim leads to record settlement for concurrent surgery fraud HOUSTON – 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 alleging that Houston surgeons were letting unqualified trainees perform parts of heart surgeries while the […]
AZA Wins Two Top 2023 Texas Verdicts for Energy Companies
HOUSTON – Two of AZA’s unanimous jury verdicts on behalf of Houston-based energy companies were named by TopVerdict.com among the Top 50 Verdicts in Texas in 2023. AZA frequently makes top verdict lists in Texas and nationally. The full list for 2023 is available here: Top 50 Verdicts in Texas in 2023 – TopVerdict.com. The […]
Name Partner Todd Mensing Again Named to Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in Environmental Law
HOUSTON – AZA partner Todd Mensing has been named to Lawdragon’s list of the 2024 Leaders in Environmental Law. Lawdragon wrote that honorees were selected using its “time-honed process of journalistic reporting, nominations and vetting with peers and experts in environmental law.” Mr. Mensing, who focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, was honored […]
AZA Names Four New Partners
HOUSTON – Cameron Byrd, Nathan Campbell, Jordan Warshauer and Kelsi Stayart White have been named partners at the trial and appellate boutique AZA. “This class of new partners is wildly accomplished and deserving of their promotions,” said AZA co-founder John Zavitsanos. The lawyers will officially become partners on Jan. 1, 2024. Mr. Byrd is […]
Jury Finds for Female Firefighter in Revenge Porn Case
HOUSTON – 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 husband and secretly watched it for years. The jury awarded $80,000 in actual damages for mental anguish, $50,000 in punitive damages and $120,166 in […]
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 […]
AZA Named for 12th Year to List of Best Law Firms
HOUSTON – AZA is being recognized for the 12th year among the Best Law Firms in Houston by The Best Lawyers in America. “Ahmad, Zavitsanos & Mensing is one of the truly outstanding commercial trial firms in Texas and the U.S. They are always my first choice when the litigation matter is critical,” one AZA […]
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 […]
Joe Ahmad Named a Lawdragon Leading Corporate Employment Lawyer
HOUSTON – AZA co-founder Joe Ahmad was named by Lawdragon among the 2024 Lawdragon 500 Corporate Employment Lawyers. He was cited for his expertise in labor and employment litigation, especially in executive representation. Lawdragon previously named Mr. Ahmad, along with eight other AZA lawyers, to the 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America for his […]
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