AZA Partner Monica Uddin Named One of Top National Lawyers for Client Service
HOUSTON – AZA partner Monica Uddin was one of only 240 lawyers nationwide named to the BTI Client Service All-Stars.
The list, compiled through a survey of corporate counsel and those who regularly use top-drawer legal services, is largely composed of lawyers at big law firms. BTI specializes in strategic legal market research and has rated the best legal client services for decades.
“Monica has a great strategic mind and is playing chess when others are playing checkers,” one of the surveyed clients said of Ms. Uddin.
BTI itself states: “No one gets on this list unless a top legal decision maker recognizes them, without prompt or suggestion, along with a good reason why. No law firm or attorney can pay, influence, or refer themselves in. Attorneys only get on this list by outperforming everyone else.
“Once a BTI Client Service All-Star – always an All-Star. 30 years of BTI Client Service All-Star research shows these attorneys always deliver more.”
AZA as a firm has been repeatedly named to BTI’s Client Services A-Team. AZA has also been named to BTI’s Awesome Opponents list and twice to BTI’s list of the Most Feared law firms.
Ms. Uddin is a skilled trial lawyer and the hiring partner for AZA. She represents energy companies and other businesses and individuals in a variety of complex commercial matters including contract disputes, partnership breakups, defamation and trade secrets. With a computer science background from Stanford University, she has also been active with AZA’s intellectual property and patent litigation team.
A University of Chicago Law School graduate, Ms. Uddin excels at framing her clients’ stories in a successful manner for juries and judges. She was named to The Best Lawyers in America and Texas Super Lawyers lists for excellence in business litigation.
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.