AZA Co-founder Joe Ahmad Named a Lawdragon Leading Corporate Employment Lawyer 2026
September 19, 2025
HOUSTON – Name partner Joe Ahmad, co-founder of AZA, was named once again to the Lawdragon 500 Leading Corporate Employment Lawyers list.
The 2026 edition marks the third year Mr. Ahmad has been on this list. He was again cited for his expertise in executive representation.
Lawdragon says the Leading Corporate Employment Lawyers list is its “guide to the nation’s best advisors on workplace mobility, employee benefits and executive compensation, traditional labor matters and, of course, all matter of disputes.”
Mr. Ahmad is a lawyer for executives and has been recognized nationally as one of the best in his field. He represents executives in a variety of matters, including breach of contract, trade secrets, covenants not to compete, breach of fiduciary duty and other matters.
Mr. Ahmad also maintains a blog called Legal Issues in the Executive Suite in which he explores issues involving trade secrets, covenants not to compete, executive compensation and other matters of importance to executives.
He has also been named to Lawdragon’s Leading Lawyers in America and Leading Litigators in America and recognized as a top-rung “Star Individual” in “Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.” He has been named to the Texas Super Lawyers list since it started in 2003 and is also listed year after year among the Top 100 Super Lawyers in Texas.
Mr. Ahmad was elected to the prestigious American Board of Trial Advocates, an elite group of the country’s leading judges and civil trial lawyers. He was also named a Benchmark Litigation Star, and he received the 2019 Distinguished Member Award from the South Asian Bar Association of Houston. He has also received a rating of AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell.
AZA, or Ahmad, Zavitsanos & Mensing, is a Houston-based law firm that is home to true courtroom lawyers with a formidable track record in complex commercial litigation, including energy, healthcare, intellectual property and business dispute cases. AZA was recognized again by Chambers USA 2025 as among the best in Texas in commercial law and intellectual property; 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 previously dubbed a Texas Powerhouse law firm by Law360.