Adam Allen (Associate)
Commercial law and intellectual property attorney
Adam Allen is a trial attorney with substantial experience in complex Texas commercial law, intellectual property rights, civil and appellate litigation. Mr. Allen has successfully represented a wide variety of corporate clients and individuals on legal issues ranging from commercial contract negotations and intellectual property prosecution and disputes, to appellate matters and complex product liability suits.
Mr. Allen is also involved with counseling and litigation-related services to small businesses and municipal clients. He has experience with commercial law matters regarding franchising and business organization, environmental claims, land use issues, code enforcement, utility and franchise matters, municipal bonds, bankruptcy, and annexation.
At all phases of the legal process, Mr. Allen commits himself to providing each client with the best, most innovative legal services available, and ensures a direct and open line of communication between the client and attorney at all times.
Education
- Baylor Law School – 2002; Juris Doctor, Order of Barristers
- Wake Forest University – 1999; Bachelor of Arts, History with honors
- Tyler Junior College – 2005-2006; continuing education; genetics and microbiology
Primary Areas of Practice
- Complex commercial and business litigation
- Governmental and municipal law
- Business organization
- Intellectual property, focusing on Copyright and Trademark prosecution and litigation, protection of trade secrets, and unfair competition
- Appellate law
Representative Experience
Represent various municipal bodies dealing with a variety of issues including project funding, contract negotiations, instrument drafting, and litigation, if necessary.
Represent local, state-wide and national businesses, and work to assist the businesses with their formation, franchising, trademarking, copyrighting, asset protection, employment disputes, litigation, and appeals.
Represent a national corporation as associate counsel in eighteen wheeler trailer product liability case involving death and serious injury.
Represent, as lead counsel, several automobile dealerships dealing with issues ranging from commercial disputes (including alleged fraudulent transactions, Finance Code violations, Equal Credit Opportunity Act violations, and UCC violations) to personal injury litigation.
Represent as lead counsel hundreds of insurance defense cases from automobile accidents to premises liability claims.
Admissions and Affiliations
- U.S. Supreme Court; pending
- U.S. Courts of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; pending
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- All Texas State Courts
- American Bar Association
- Texas Young Lawyers Association
- Tyler Young Lawyers Association
- Wake Forest Alumni Association
Clerkships
Briefing Attorney to Honorable Judge Walter S. Smith, Jr., U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas (2002-2003).
Publications and Continuing Legal Education
"Ethics Update" Texas Association of Legal Assistants, Continuing Legal Education (2008).
