HOUSTON – Twenty-two AZA lawyers were named to the 2027 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch lists. These awards honor the top 5% or less of attorneys in private practice in the U.S.
Recognition by Best Lawyers is based entirely on peer review. Best Lawyers says its process “is designed to capture, as accurately as possible, the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area.”
AZA lawyers were cited for excellence in 13 unique practice areas: commercial, intellectual property, antitrust and construction litigation; appellate practice; patent law; personal injury litigation (plaintiffs and defense); intellectual property law; employment law for management; construction law; mass tort/class action; and arbitration. Read more about the awards here: www.bestlawyers.com.
AZA lawyers named as Best Lawyers are:
- Joe Ahmad for commercial litigation and employment law – management
- Shawn Bates for commercial litigation
- Sammy Ford IV for commercial litigation, personal injury litigation – defendants and personal injury litigation – plaintiffs
- Foster Johnson for commercial litigation
- Kevin Leyendecker for commercial litigation
- Jason McManis for intellectual property litigation
- Todd Mensing for commercial litigation and construction litigation
- Daryl Moore for commercial litigation, appellate practice and arbitration
- Tim Shelby for commercial litigation
- JoAnn Storey for appellate practice
- Monica Uddin for commercial litigation
- David Warden for intellectual property litigation and patent law
- Kelsi Stayart White for appellate practice
- John Zavitsanos for commercial litigation
Firm co-founders Messrs. Ahmad and Zavitsanos have been named Best Lawyers for decades, since 2003 for Mr. Ahmad and 2006 for Mr. Zavitsanos.
The AZA lawyers named as Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch are:
- Weining Bai for commercial litigation and intellectual property litigation
- Nathan Campbell for commercial litigation
- Michael Gorrell for commercial litigation
- Shahmeer Halepota for commercial litigation
- Ab Henry for commercial litigation and intellectual property litigation
- Justin Kenney for commercial litigation, antitrust litigation and mass tort litigation/class action – defendants
- Louis Liao for intellectual property litigation and intellectual property law
- Alfredo Montelongo for commercial litigation, construction litigation and construction law
Houston and Dallas trial boutique Ahmad Zavitsanos & Mensing, or AZA, has earned repeated recognition from Chambers USA among the best in Texas for commercial law, intellectual property and appellate practices; the firm has been listed by Best Lawyers’ Best Law Firms as one of the country’s best commercial litigation firms for 13 years; has been named Litigation Department of the Year by Texas Lawyer three times; and was dubbed a Texas Powerhouse law firm by Law360.