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| | Address | | 909 Fannin, Suite 3600 | | Houston, Texas 77010 | | (Ft. Bend, Harris & Montgomery Cos.) | | | |
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(Main Office)
| Yetter, Warden & Coleman, L.L.P. practices in the following areas of law:
Civil Trial Practice in all State and Federal Courts. Contract, Business Tort, Trade Secrets, Patent, Trademark, Securities and Antitrust Litigation. | Firm Profile:
Yetter & Warden was founded in 1997 by Paul Yetter and David Warden, formerly partners in the Houston office of Baker Botts L.L.P. In 2007, the firm expanded with noted appellate specialist Greg Coleman, formerly head of the national Supreme Court and appellate practice at Weil Gotshal & Manges, based in Austin. The firm specializes in Business and Technology litigation, and its work is divided between plaintiff and defendant representation. The firm was named 2005 Litigation Boutique of the Year, Honorable Mention, by The American Lawyer. | | Firm Size: 27 | Representative Clients:
American Airlines, Inc.; Axalto S.A.; CenterPoint Energy, Inc.; Christus Health System; Encore Bank; Equatorial Mining Ltd.; General Electric Co.; GeoMet, Inc.; The Hartford; HCA Healthcare; Hydril Co., LP; Levi Strauss & Co.; Local Gov't Investment Coop.; The Methodist Hospital; M-I Swaco, Inc.; Peregrine Systems, Inc.; Protective Life Insurance; Qwest Communications Int'l, Inc.; Reliant Energy Inc.; Smith International, Inc.; Southwest Airlines Co.; Technip USA Corp.; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.; U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Williams Companies, Inc. |
Other Office Locations of Yetter, Warden & Coleman, L.L.P.
Austin, Texas, U.S.A.
| | MEMBERS OF FIRM | | R. Paul Yetter (Member) born Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 5, 1958; admitted to bar, 1984, Texas. Education: University of Texas at El Paso (B.A., 1980); Columbia University (J.D., 1983). Recipient: National Law Journal, Top Ten Trial Lawyers Award, 2004; Super Lawyer in Business Litigation, Texas Monthly, 2003-2007. Law Clerk to the Hon. John R. Brown, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1983-1984. Member, Board of Visitors, Columbia Law School, 2000—. Member: State Bar of Texas (Chair, State Judiciary Relations Committee, 1995-1996); Judicial Selection Task Force and Funding Parity Task Force, Texas Commission on Judicial Efficiency; Committee on Admissions, Southern District of Texas. Fellow: Texas and Houston Bar Foundations. Research Fellow: The Center for American and International Law. (Board Certified, Civil Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization). Email: R. Paul Yetter | | Autry W. Ross (Member) born Ocilla, Georgia, January 27, 1960; admitted to bar, 1986, Texas. Education: Rice University (B.A., 1983); Columbia University (J.D., 1986). Phi Beta Kappa. Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Associate, Baker Botts, LLP, 1986-1992; Assistant U.S. Attorney, Financial Institutions Fraud Division, 1992-1996. Member: State Bar of Texas. Email: Autry W. Ross | | Eric P. Chenoweth (Member) born Mount Kisco, New York, June 13, 1972; admitted to bar, 1998, Texas. Education: Syracuse University (B.S., 1994); University of Virginia (J.D., 1998). Recipient, Rising Star in Business Litigation, Texas Monthly, 2004-2007. Winner, UVA Lile Moot Court Competition. Captain, Syracuse University Football Team, 1994; GTE Academic All-American, 1994. Member: Houston and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas; Houston Young Lawyers Association (Administration of Justice Committee, 2002—); Texas Association of Defense Counsel. Fellow: Houston Young Lawyers Foundation. Email: Eric P. Chenoweth | | Shawn M. Bates (Member) born Falmouth, Massachusetts, March 16, 1965; admitted to bar, 2000, Texas. Education: Loyola College (B.A., 1987); Georgetown University (J.D., magna cum laude, 2000). Order of the Coif. Recipient: Rising Star in Business Litigation, Texas Monthly, 2005-2006; Outstanding Legal Article Award, Texas Bar Journal. Executive Editor, Georgetown Law Journal, Project on Criminal Procedure, 1997-1999. Senior Evaluator, U.S. General Accounting Office and U.S. Department of State, 1992-1998. Member: Houston Bar Association (Member: Administration of Justice Committee, 2004—; Fee Dispute Committee, 2004—); State Bar of Texas. Email: Shawn M. Bates | | Kimberly L. McMullan (Member) born Brockton, Massachusetts, January 5, 1974; admitted to bar, 1999, Massachusetts; 2003, Texas. Education: Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges (A.B., 1996); Harvard University (J.D., 1999). Recipient, Rising Star in Business Litigation, Texas Monthly, 2005-2007. Member: Massachusetts Bar Association; Houston Young Lawyers Association; Houston Bar Association; State Bar of Texas. Email: Kimberly L. McMullan | | George Fibbe (Member) born Mobile, Alabama, October 2, 1974; admitted to bar, 2001, Alabama; 2002, Texas. Education: Birmingham-Southern College (B.A., 1997); Harvard University (J.D., 2001). Phi Beta Kappa; Omicron Delta Kappa. President, Society for Law, Life and Religion, 2000-2001. Recipient, Rising Star in Business Litigation, Texas Monthly, 2005-2007. Senior Editor, Journal of Law and Public Policy, 2000-2001. Law Clerk to Hon. Martin Feldman, Eastern District of Louisiana, 2001-2002. Member: Houston and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas; Houston Young Lawyers Association. Email: George Fibbe | | Collin J. Cox (Member) born Stillwater, Oklahoma, November 11, 1974; admitted to bar, 2001, Texas; 2003, District of Columbia. Education: Baylor University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1997); University of Cambridge (M.Phil., first class honors, 1999); Duke University (J.D., summa cum laude, 2001). Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif. Member, Moot Court Board. Editor-in-Chief, Duke Law Journal, Vol. 50. Recipient, Award for Special Achievement in Constitutional Law and Civil Rights, 2001. Author: "Reconsidering the Sham Affidavit Doctrine," 50 Duke Law Journal 261, 2000. Law Clerk, Judge Anthony J. Scirica, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 2001-2002. Member: State Bar of Texas; The District of Columbia Bar. Practice Areas: Litigation. | | ASSOCIATES | | Bryce L. Callahan (Associate) born Mobile, Alabama, February 6, 1976; admitted to bar, 2006, Texas. Education: United States Military Academy (B.S., 1998); Harvard Law School (J.D., 2006). Member: State Bar of Texas. [Captain, Military Intelligence, U.S. Army, 1998-2003]. | | Wendie S. Childress (Associate) born Houston, Texas, November 18, 1974; admitted to bar, 2000, Texas. Education: University of Texas (B.A., 1997; J.D., 2000). General Counsel for Senator David Sibley, Chairman of the Texas Senate Business & Commerce Committee, 2000-2002. Member: Houston Bar Association; State Bar of Texas; Texas Young Lawyers Association; Houston Young Lawyers Association. Email: Wendie S. Childress | | Douglas S. Griffith (Associate) born Houston, Texas, March 23, 1964; admitted to bar, 1989, Texas; 1992, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas; 1993, U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas; 1995, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas. Education: Emory University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1986); University of Texas (J.D., 1989). Phi Beta Kappa. Member: Houston Bar Association; State Bar of Texas. Email: Douglas S. Griffith | | Pamela Lunn Hohensee (Associate) born Baton Rouge, Louisiana, August 15, 1960; admitted to bar, 1992, Texas; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Education: University of Houston, Cullen College of Engineering (B.S.E.E., cum laude, 1981); University of Houston Law Center (J.D., magna cum laude, 1991). Order of the Coif. Order of the Barons. Registered Professional Engineer, 1987. Member: State Bar of Texas. Email: Pamela Lunn Hohensee | | Deborah J. Karakowsky (Associate) born Temple, Texas, 1983; (Admission pending). Education: Vanderbilt University (B.A., magna cum laude, 2005); The University of Texas School of Law (J.D., 2008). Languages: Spanish. Email: Deborah J. Karakowsky | | Dori E. Kornfeld (Associate) born Houston, Texas, May 17, 1977; admitted to bar, 2003, Texas. Education: Princeton University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1999); Harvard University (J.D., cum laude, 2003). Recipient, Rising Star in Business Litigation, Texas Monthly, 2007. Phi Beta Kappa. Executive Editor, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, 2002-2003. Law Clerk to the Hon. Lee H. Rosenthal, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 2003-2004. Member: State Bar of Texas. Email: Dori E. Kornfeld | | Wynn B. McCloskey, III (Associate) born Baltimore, Maryland, October 1, 1960; admitted to bar, 1985, Texas. Education: Johns Hopkins University (B.A., 1981); University of Virginia (J.D., 1984). Member: Houston Bar Association; State Bar of Texas. Email: Wynn B. McCloskey, III | | Thomas M. Morrow (Associate) born San Jose, California, December 17, 1969; admitted to bar, 2003, Texas; 2005, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Education: University of Houston (B.Ch.E., 1993; J.D., magna cum laude, 2002); University of Houston - Clear Lake (M.B.A., 1999). Order of the Coif; Order of the Barons. Articles Editor, Houston Law Review. Member: State Bar of Texas; American Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Intellectual Property; Antitrust). Practice Areas: Intellectual Property. Email: Thomas M. Morrow | | Anna G. Rotman (Associate) born Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, August 24, 1976; admitted to bar, 2004, Texas. Education: Georgetown University (B.S., School of Foreign Service, magna cum laude, 1998); Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 2004). Submissions Editor, Harvard International Law Journal, 2002-2003. Law Clerk to the Hon. Marvin J. Garbis, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland, 2004-2005. Member: State Bar of Texas. Languages: Spanish and French. Email: Anna G. Rotman | | James E. Zucker (Associate) born Cincinnati, Ohio, 1975; admitted to bar, 2007, Texas. Education: College of William & Mary (B.A., magna cum laude, 1998); University of Virginia School of Law (J.D., 2007). [U.S. Army, 1998-2002]. Languages: German. Email: James E. Zucker | | OF COUNSEL | | Finis E. Cowan, Jr. (Of Counsel) born Dallas, Texas, October 16, 1929; admitted to bar, 1955, Texas. Education: Rice University (B.A., 1951); University of Texas (LL.B., 1956). Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Delta Phi; Order of the Coif. United States District Judge, Southern District of Texas, 1977-1979. Recipient: Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists, Lifetime Excellence in Advocacy Award, 2003; International Commercial Litigation, The Best in the World Award, 1996; National Law Journal, Top Ten Trial Lawyers Award, 1994. Associate and Partner, Baker Botts LLP, 1956-1974 and 1979-1994. Member: Houston and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas. Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers. Practice Areas: Products Liability; Contract Litigation; Antitrust Defense; Federal Civil Rights; Legal Malpractice Defense; Construction Litigation. Email: Finis E. Cowan, Jr. | | Y. Ping Sun (Of Counsel) born Shanghai, China, February 18, 1957; admitted to bar, 1988, New Jersey; 1989, New York. (Not admitted in Texas). Education: Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (A.B., cum laude, 1985); Columbia University (J.D., 1988). Editor, Journal of Transnational Law. Member, Board of Trustees, Texas Children's Hospital. Member, Board of Directors, Teach for America Houston Regional Board. Member, Governing Council, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. Honorary Chair, Round Table, Baker Institute at Rice University. Email: Y. Ping Sun | | David E. Warden (Of Counsel) born Indianapolis, Indiana, February 25, 1950; admitted to bar, 1982, Texas; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Education: Purdue University (B.S., 1972; M.S., 1973); University of Virginia (J.D., 1981). Recipient: Super Lawyer in Business Litigation, Texas Monthly, 2003-2007. Member: Houston Bar Association; State Bar of Texas. (Board Certified, Civil Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization). Languages: French. Email: David E. Warden | Other Office Addresses: Links to Other Offices
Austin, Texas Office: Chase Tower, 221 West 6th Street, Suite 750, 78701. Telephone: 512-533-0150. Fax: 512-533-0120.
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