Dallas trial law firm Burns Charest announced this week that LeElle Slifer has been promoted to partner.
Slifer, a 2010 Harvard Law School graduate, focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation involving claims of breach of contract, oil and gas royalty disputes and patent infringement. She is a former clerk of Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Slifer, the seventh partner at the 20-lawyer Burns Charest, is currently representing Dallas-based Kosmos Energy and Plano-based Stonebriar Commercial Finance in pending litigation. She also counts Pizza Hut as a client.
“I have had the privilege to work with some of the brightest and most highly-regarded lawyers in the country. LeElle is in that class,” Andy Fletcher, general counsel of Stonebriar Commercial Finance, says of Slifer on her website bio. “She is a brilliant strategist, master negotiator, and has the wisdom and discipline to know how and when to use honey or vinegar.”
In another matter, Slifer is representing wounded service members and their families in a civil action in the Eastern District of New York against six international banking organizations for allegedly conspiring with Iran to evade U.S. economic sanctions and conduct illicit trade-finance transactions.