Out-of-the-box counsel powered by experience, hard work, and creative legal thinking.
We are a cross-disciplined and highly attuned team focused on what matters most to you.
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Managing Partner
Neema Amini
Neema Amini heads our transactional work, as well as the firm’s business litigation. Operating out of the Austin and New York City offices, he works with a variety of enterprises — both established and emerging, across industries such as digital health and information security technology. He has represented clients in complex, high-stakes litigation in both state and federal courts.
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Partner
Alex Conant
Alex Conant focuses his practice on litigation. He has extensive experience in complex disputes involving businesses, individuals, directors, officers and the like. He has experience arguing his clients’ cases before federal judges, state judges and arbitrators. He has represented individuals and corporations alike from the incipience of their cases through the verdict.
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Partner
Jared Greathouse
Jared Greathouse focuses on corporate law, civil litigation, estate planning, and probate. Jared assists businesses with issues including structure, governance, financing, board management, benefits and employment, intellectual property, tax, specialty tax incentives, representation before administrative bodies, and related civil litigation. Jared also counsels clients on planning and protecting their legacy through estate planning.
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Senior Counsel
Buck McKinney
Buck McKinney is an intellectual property and entertainment lawyer with over 29 years of experience. He focuses on copyright, trademark, intellectual property matters, entertainment matters and related business disputes. He handles clients’ transactional work, and is also a seasoned litigator who enforces his clients’ rights at trial, before both state and federal courts.
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Senior Associate
Aaron Gankofskie
Aaron Gankofskie primarily focuses on civil litigation. He is an experienced trial attorney with eight-years of providing creative and effective legal strategies to clients in a wide variety of cases. This problem solving has resulted in great success for clients across Texas. Aaron prides himself on his strong motion practice, and clear and effective writing style.
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Senior Associate
Hayden Prosise
Hayden Prosise primarily focuses on the firm’s business litigation and transactional work. Operating out of the DFW area, Hayden has experience working as counsel for companies of every size, has clerked for a federal district court, and interned for a state appellate court. Hayden develops winning strategies for his litigation clients and prevents potential litigation for his transactional clients.
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Senior Associate
Joel Teklu
Joel Teklu is a transactional attorney with over 15 years of experience in complex commercial transactions and intellectual property licensing across the US and abroad. He focuses on providing business and legal counsel to companies across a variety of business life cycles and industries, managing their relationships with customers, partners, and service vendors.
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Associate
Allison Steele
Allison Steele focuses on intellectual property and entertainment law. A blend of both litigation and transactional work, Allison’s practice involves copyright, trademark, and entertainment law matters. She is passionate about advocating for and helping clients protect their creative endeavors.
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Of Counsel
Mark McLean
Mark McLean is a passionate and unrelenting litigator. He is an experienced trial lawyer whose attention-to-detail on procedural and caselaw matters, combined with the vigorous representation of his clients’ interests, has yielded impressive wins for his clients — whether through settlement or verdict. Mark has significant experience in personal injury litigation and civil litigation.
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Director of Operations
Emily Skeen
Emily Skeen is our director of operations. She brings a unique perspective to our growing law firm, keeping us focused on both our short-term and long-term goals. As an integrative addition to the team, Emily's ideas foster smooth operations, optimal resource allocation and strategic growth.
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Director of Financial Operations
Tesla Brooks
Tesla Brooks' mission is to ensure everything goes smoothly, both in the firm's outward-facing and internal operations. She is instrumental to maintaining our system, managing client on-boarding and overseeing our billing, invoicing and payroll. In an often hectic legal world, she keeps things zen.
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Director of Tech Ops
Dani Borowy
Dani Borowy is our director of technical operations. She is a creative, technical thinker with a passion for data and automation. Her curiosity and love of solving operational problems is applied firm wide – to both internal and outward facing processes. She ensures we remain at the cutting edge of operational, productivity and legal tech.
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Senior Paralegal
Yesenia Castorena
Yesenia Castorena works at the firm as a paralegal. It is common for most litigation throughout the firm to bear her fingerprints, and her work is reflected in our firm’s filings in both state and federal courts. She is instrumental in our motion work, conducting discovery, effectuating service, the management of courtroom logistics and so much more.
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Paralegal
Reese Pyle
Reese Pyle is a paralegal at the firm who deals with both our state and federal litigation. He brings his legal experience to bear on all aspects, and in all stages, of our clients’ cases. He is a valued member of the team who brings both a keen eye and a positive attitude to both the firm, and our clients.
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Paralegal
Susan Gadberry
Susan Gadberry is a seasoned paralegal with more than 15 years of experience in litigation support. Her extensive legal background is instrumental in every phase of our clients’ cases. Susan is a vital part of our team, known for her sharp attention to detail and consistently positive approach, benefiting both the firm and our clients.

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