DALLAS – Texas Lawyer named AZA as the 2026 Texas Litigation Department of the Year for General Litigation at a Dallas ceremony. This is the fourth time AZA has received this honor, always against tough competition.
This year the other finalists included many global firm competitors and a few other boutiques like AZA. They were A&O Shearman, Baker Botts, Beck Redden, Foley & Lardner, Gibson Dunn, Jones Day, King & Spalding, Kirkland & Ellis and Yetter Coleman.
Several AZA accomplishments noted from 2025, the year AZA also opened a Dallas office, were:
- Winning the first two trials in the Texas Business Courts. There have been more wins for AZA there in recent months.
- Trying 16 cases last year. AZA has already tried 13 this year and has previously tried up to 27 in a single year.
- Jury victories including a $289 million breach of contract trial for KBR, a $123 million Winter Storm Uri trial for Marathon and beating Samsung in a $78.5 million patent infringement trial.
“This honor gives us a terrific September trifecta. Earlier in the month, Law360 named AZA a Texas Powerhouse, BTI Consulting named us one of only six in Texas on the Most Feared Law Firm list and now Texas Lawyer has recognized our work,” said John Zavitsanos, co-founder and managing partner of the firm. “AZA has received all these accolades in various years before, but it’s especially powerful coming together like this within a couple of weeks.”
Houston and Dallas trial boutique Ahmad Zavitsanos & Mensing, or AZA, has earned repeated recognition from Chambers USA among the best in Texas for its 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 four times; has five times been named a Most Feared Law Firm in a national survey; and was twice dubbed a Texas Powerhouse law firm by Law360.