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By Brooks Igo
(July 13) – Kirkland & Ellis announced this week that litigation partner Jamie Aycock has joined the firm’s Houston office as a partner.
Aycock, a former briefing attorney for Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht, lateraled over from the Houston litigation boutique Ahmad Zavitsanos Anaipakos Alavi & Mensing (AZA), where he was an associate.
He says the main reason for his move was the high caliber of attorneys at Kirkland.
“I jumped at the opportunity to work for one of the best litigation firms in the world,” he said. “The Houston office in particular is full of young dynamic attorneys who are building a great office.”
Aycock focuses his practice on commercial and patent litigation. His clients have included Air Liquide, Plains All American Pipeline and ENI.
Most recently, he has been involved in several patent infringement cases involving smartphone technologies, where he has had to navigate complicated damages issues that arose because the patents were essential to industry standards and related patents had been litigated in other countries.
Aycock says three hot areas of litigation are the consent rights and preferential rights that arise in the context of energy transactions; litigation over rights to seismic data; and the use of state court procedures in certain jurisdictions to frustrate Class Action Fairness Act removal.
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