Jennifer Haltom Doan is a founding partner with haltom & doan, a boutique trial and appellate firm located in Texarkana, TX-AR. Ms. Doan represents Fortune 100 companies and individuals in high-stakes matters throughout Texas and Arkansas. Her practice concentrates on complex litigation including product liability, intellectual property, antitrust, class action, personal injury and bet-the-company litigation. She is double board certified in Civil Trial Law and Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Ms. Doan has received a number of awards including Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year” in commercial litigation in the East Texas/Tyler metro area, Texas Super Lawyers “Top 50 Women in Texas,” and “Top 100 Lawyers in Texas”, Managing IP’s Top 250 Women in IP, ACQ Global Awards – IP Attorney of the Year – Arkansas, Global 100’s “IP Attorney of the Year – Arkansas” and Benchmark Litigation’s “Top 250 Women in Litigation in the United States.” She has also been featured twice as the “Litigator of the Week” by the American Lawyer as well as by the Texas Lawyer in Texas and The Recorder in California.
With over thirty years of experience as a trial lawyer, Ms. Doan has handled a diverse array of complex litigation. She has served as lead trial counsel on behalf of large and small businesses as well as individuals. Some of the cases she has tried in recent years include serving as lead trial counsel in defending product matters in multi-district litigation, securing complete defense verdicts in patent infringement cases for Hewlett-Packard, Amazon and Yahoo! Inc. in both Marshall, Texas and Tyler, Texas, and securing dismissals in patent cases for lack of standing and failure to prove patentable subject matter under 35 U.S.C. 101. She has also served as lead trial counsel in enforcing a distribution agreement against an Arkansas bottled water company, as lead counsel in defending a large aluminum company against 374 residents claiming personal injury, medical monitoring, and property damage, and as lead counsel for plaintiffs in a large construction and mold contamination matter. Doan has also successfully achieved complete dismissal for her client in a case involving an accident with a conveyor belt, and defended a young woman against an East Texas school district in a civil rights matter.
Ms. Doan is licensed to practice in Texas and Arkansas and in all federal courts in both states. She has tried cases in federal courts in both states and in district courts throughout Texas and in circuit courts throughout Arkansas. She has also served as lead counsel on several cases in California and Pennsylvania. She has also argued appeals in Arkansas and Texas appellate courts, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth, Eighth, Ninth and Federal Circuits, and handled appeals in the United States Supreme Court. She has also arbitrated cases before the National Association of Securities Dealers.
Ms. Doan is a frequent speaker for the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) and Bars across the nation on litigation matters, has taught at the Trial Academy at Stanford University, and served on the faculties of the ABOTA Trial College at Yale University in 2018 and 2022 and Harvard University in July 2016. In addition to her speaking engagements, Ms. Doan currently serves as National Vice President (2023) of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), immediate past President of all 15 Texas Chapters of ABOTA (TEX-ABOTA), is Past-Chair of the Litigation Section for the State Bar of Texas, and is a member of the International Society of Barristers. She is a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, the Arkansas Bar Foundation, and the College of the State Bar of Texas. She leads the Intellectual Property Committee of the International Association of Defense Counsel. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Arkansas Bar Foundation and on the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Jury Instructions – Civil. Ms. Doan was selected as a charter fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. She is a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Texas, the Arkansas Bar Association, the Northeast Texas Bar Association, the Southwest Arkansas Bar Association, the Eastern District of Texas Bar Association, the Bar Association of the Fifth Circuit, Federal Circuit Bar Association, the Texarkana Bar Association, and the Texarkana Young Lawyers Association, where she was a charter member and served as President from 2001-02. She is also a member of the Defense Research Institute, the Arkansas Association of Defense Counsel and the Texas Association of Defense Counsel.
Ms. Doan received her Juris Doctor degree, with honors, from the University of Texas School of Law in 1989, where she wrote for the American Journal of Criminal Law and was selected for UT’s pilot program with the University of London. Ms. Doan graduated from Abilene Christian University in 1986, receiving a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in finance, summa cum laude. She is a fourth generation native of Texarkana, and is married to Darby Doan, one of her partners. They have two children, Katherine Anne and Johanna Claire.
