With fewer than 50 attorneys and a single office, Houston-based Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, Alavi & Mensing made an outsize impact on the nationwide litigation landscape in 2018.

In February 2018, the firm convinced the Texas Supreme Court to become the first state high court to recognize that communications between nonlawyer patent agents and inventor clients are protected by attorney-client privilege. According to AZA partner Jane Langdell Robinson, the Texaxs ruling could influence courts across the country. There are currently 24 other states that have the same privilege rule as Texas. 

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