Haynes and Boone kicked off the new year by announcing Wednesday that 11 attorneys have been promoted to partner, including nine in Texas.
Raghav Bajaj concentrates his practice on patent office trials before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), including inter partes review (IPR) and covered business method (CBM) review proceedings, representing both petitioners and patent owners. He is based in Austin.
Austin Elam, chair of the firm’s oil and gas practice, specializes in complex upstream and midstream oil and gas transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and DrillCos, and financings of oil and gas properties and energy assets across the energy spectrum. He offices in Houston.
Michelle Jacobs is in the firm’s litigation practice in Dallas, where she handles disputes involving copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, contracts, fraud, business disparagement and products liability. She is a past winner of the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas’ Asylum Program Outstanding Associate Award and leads Haynes and Boone’s pro bono efforts with Genesis Women’s Shelter.
Scott Jarratt focuses his intellectual property practice in Richardson on helping clients obtain and defend against technology-intensive patents related to software, networking, computing hardware and cloud-based computing. He was a former software engineer at IBM before receiving his law degree from SMU in 2009.
Michael Karson concentrates his intellectual property litigation practice on patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret misappropriation issues. The Dallas lawyer has litigated cases involving cases involving LTE cellular communications and equipment, mobile device management for wireless devices, wireless smart electricity metering, data communications including optical network communications, industrial cooling equipment and piston coatings for use in internal combustion engines.
Maral Kilejian focuses her practice in the areas of franchise and distribution law, corporate law, trademark law, and advertising, sweepstakes and promotions. She received her law degree from the University of Houston and is based in Dallas.
Kelli Norfleet is a Houston attorney who advises clients on the areas of business bankruptcy and insolvency law and related litigation, financings, dispositions, and other restructuring transactions. She is a past president of the Houston Association of Young Bankruptcy Lawyers.
Sameer Saxena offices in Houston and represents publicly-traded and privately-held companies in securities offerings, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures. The 2010 graduate of the University of Houston Law Center also advises clients on corporate governance, securities law compliance and SEC reporting matters.
Katy Shurin is based in Houston and represents financial institutions, commodities trading companies, energy marketers, project developers and other energy companies in commodity and derivatives transactions and financings that span the power, alternative energy, natural gas and upstream oil and gas sectors. She sits on the boards of directors of Main Street Theater and Texas Wall Street Women.