Yetter Coleman is pleased to announce it has promoted two lawyers to its partnership effective January 1, 2018.
April Farris joined the firm’s appellate team in 2010, following her graduation from Harvard Law School and a clerkship with Hon. Jennifer Walker Elrod on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. She left the firm in 2014 to work as an Assistant Solicitor General for the State of Texas, returning in 2016 to make contributions in cases for our clients like Noble Energy, iPic, IBM, and CIT Group. April is recognized as a “Texas Rising Star,” by Thomson Reuters’ Super Lawyers.
Rob Ellis joined the firm’s trial team in 2011, following his graduation from Harvard Law School and University of Cambridge and after a judicial clerkship, also with Judge Elrod of the Fifth Circuit. He has taken lead roles on important cases for our clients Southwestern Energy, CIT Group, Business Logic, IBM, American Airlines, and other clients for which we achieved outstanding results at trial. Rob is recognized as a”Texas Rising Star,” by Thomson Reuters’ Super Lawyers, and as a “Houston Top Lawyer” in Business, Civil & Commercial Litigation by H Texas Magazine.
“We are proud of April and Rob for realizing this professional milestone,” says Paul Yetter, managing partner. “Their excellence and leadership reflect the caliber of lawyer practicing with our firm, and we look forward to the many successes they will achieve on behalf of our clients. As important, they are persons of character who add to the strong culture of our partnership and firm.”
Yetter Coleman focuses on high-stakes business and technology litigation for plaintiffs and defendants in a broad spectrum of matters, primarily trials and appeals in contract/business tort, intellectual property, and antitrust/securities litigation in the energy, technology, and financial industries.