Texas Lawyers

Intellectual Property Law

1401 McKinney Street, Suite 1900, Houston, TX 77010

Leisa Talbert Peschel is both an intellectual property trial lawyer and counselor. She has considerable experience litigating intellectual property matters, including over seventy patent infringement cases. Leisa leverages her scientific background to gain an understanding of a client’s technology to better position her client throughout a case. She has been involved in cases dealing with a wide array of technologies, including streaming television, automatic content recognition, targeted advertising, authentication and encryption technology, Power-over-Ethernet (PoE), biotechnology research tools, chemical compositions, dental imaging technology, secondary containment structures, audio compression technology, display technologies, battery technologies, plastics, pipe thread compounds, blow-out preventers, hydraulic fracturing technologies, security systems, computer software methods, and electronics. Leisa also has had lead roles in numerous patent post-grant proceedings, including inter partes reviews and ex parte reexaminations. In addition to her litigation experience, Leisa maintains an active transactional practice. Leisa counsels clients on how to obtain, enforce, and license intellectual property, including trademark acquisition and brand management. She also gives strategic guidance regarding intellectual property transactions, which includes performing due diligence on intellectual property portfolios. Her transactional practice also includes preparing patent opinions of counsel, including freedom-to-operate, noninfringement, and invalidity opinions. Leisa’s scientific background is particularly helpful to clients seeking an opinion of counsel relating to biotechnology, chemical, or oil field services products. Leisa is also a frequent author and speaker on intellectual property law topics. She has spoken on matters relating to corporate patent policies, patent infringement defenses (including a special emphasis on patent-ineligible subject matter), licensing, patent damages, patent reform, concurrent district court litigation and post-grant review proceedings, the Lanham Act, standing, e-discovery, the intersection of science and the law, and design patent infringement.

Personal Injury Law

115 S. Main Street, 207, Cleburne, TX 76033

Wills and Trust Law

2800 S Hulen St suite 101, Fort Worth, TX 76109, USA

Named one of the top ten estate planning attorneys in Texas by the American Institute of Legal Counsel, and recognized by “Who’s Who in America,” Leslie Thomas is a founding member, partner, and estate planning attorney with Thomas-Walters, PLLC. She is the author of Estate Planning in Texas and has been repeatedly named a Top Estate Planning Attorney in Fort Worth. She received her business degree from Texas A&M University in 1990, and graduated magna cum laude from South Texas College of Law in 1993, where she served as the Assistant Editor of the Law Review and received the faculty award for outstanding graduate. Leslie Thomas focuses her legal career exclusively in the area of estate planning, and sees clients in Fort Worth. She has received numerous awards and recognitions throughout her career, and is often asked to speak at conferences and seminars regarding important estate planning issues, changes and trends. Ms. Thomas enjoys working with families to devise a strategy specific to their needs and an estate plan best suited to protect their assets for future generations. Ms. Thomas finds that those clients who work to create an effective estate plan are much more at peace in knowing that they have everything in place for their loved ones. When she is not helping families plan their estates, Ms. Thomas enjoys spending time with her husband and two children.

Personal Injury Law

1405 Cotton Gin Rd, Kyle, TX 78640, USA

Civil Litigation

2001 Ross Ave, Suite 900, Dallas, TX 75201

Lewis is routinely engaged to provide clients with practical and efficient solutions to complex litigation, compliance, investigation and enforcement matters across a wide range of subject matter areas and industries including financial services, technology, energy, transportation and healthcare. In addition to his federal clerkship and top-tier private practice experience, Lewis spent 10 years in executive level in-house counsel positions at two Fortune 50 global companies operating in the financial services, energy and technology sectors. In these leadership roles, Lewis regularly interfaced with the board of directors and outside regulatory agencies and managed global compliance programs, high-stakes litigation, government and internal investigations and regulatory affairs. <br> <br> Lewis is skilled in complex commercial litigation, white collar defense and regulatory enforcement and counsels clients on wide range of matters across several industries. Lewis’ in-house experience makes him particularly skilled at defining the specific needs of his clients at the front-end of each engagement. He works closely with his clients to fully understand business objectives in order to design a legal strategy that is appropriately risk-based and tailored to maximize efficiency and minimize the disruption caused by litigation and regulatory issues Lewis has appeared in the U.S. Supreme Court and federal and state trial and appellate courts and has conducted investigations in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and Europe. He also holds advanced industry certifications in the areas of anti-corruption compliance, anti-money laundering compliance, fintech compliance and cybersecurity risk management.