Ayesha Najam

Practice Areas

Complex Commercial Litigation

Focus areas: disputes involving energy and construction.

Career

Ayesha Najam focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, with a more recent focus on disputes involving energy, construction, and fiduciary duties. Since joining the firm in 2005, Ayesha’s client base has spanned a swath of industries, including energy, manufacturing, health care, software, construction, and commercial real estate.

Following law school, Ayesha was a law clerk to Judge Stephen H. Glickman, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, from 2004 to 2005.

She is a consummate professional and unflappable. She is a great trial lawyer.

– Chambers USA 2023

She’s a really good lawyer and very skilled. She’s a tough negotiator.

She’s responsive and very astute at grasping the business issues.

She just knocks it out of the park and is a terrific lawyer.

She’s a fabulous lawyer; just very knowledgeable, hard-working and all-around very good.

– Chambers USA 2022, 2021

Publications

Panelist: “Texas New Business Courts: What Attorneys and Businesses Need to Know,” Institute for Energy Law – 75th Annual Energy Law Conference, February 22, 2024, Houston, TX

Panelist: “Texas Business Courts: What Lawyers and Businesses Need to Know,” The South Asian Bar Association of Houston, September 29, 2023, Houston, TX

Moderator: Summer Associate Luncheon, HBA Diversity & Inclusion Committee, June 22, 2021, Zoom Session

Panelist: “APA Women Charting Successful Career Paths,” State Bar of Texas APIS, December 10, 2020, Zoom Session

Panelist: “In the Courtroom: Making the Presentation to Win,” Young Litigator Oil & Gas Conference, November 13, 2019, Spring, TX

Panelist: “’Objection: I Don’t Like This Testimony.’ Honing and Owning Your Trial Skills,” Asian Pacific Interest Section of the State Bar of Texas, 23rd Annual Conference, April 26, 2018, Austin, TX

Speaker: “What Attorneys Expect from Systems Administrators Preserving & Collecting ESI and from Computer Forensics Experts” University of Houston – Computer Forensics Class, April 2013, Houston, TX

Panelist: “The Beginning of the End: Opportunities and Pitfalls in the Run-up to Trial,” North American South Asian Bar Association (NASABA) Convention, June 25, 2011, Los Angeles, CA

Speaker: “Your Honor, May It Please The Court…”: Working in the Area That Best Suits Your Interests, National Association of Muslim Lawyers Annual Conference, April 2006, Washington, DC