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Jennifer Haltom Doan

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,” 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” for 2019 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 Harvard University in July 2016. In addition to her speaking engagements, Ms. Doan currently serves as President-Elect of all 15 Texas Chapters of the American Board of Trial Advocates (TEX-ABOTA), is Immediate Past-Chair of the Litigation Section for the State Bar of Texas, and is the former President of the East Texas Chapter of ABOTA. 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.

Representative Reported Opinions

· Network-1 Technologies, Inc. v. Hewlett Packard Enterprise, No. 2018-2338, 2020 WL 5666893 (Fed. Cir. Sep. 24, 2020);

· JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. v. DataTreasury Corp., 79 F. Supp. 3d 643 (E.D. Tex. 2015), aff'd in part, No. 15-40905, 2016 WL 2957003 (5th Cir. May 19, 2016);

· Clear with Computers, LLC v. Altec Industries, Inc., Case No. 6:14-cv-79, Case No. 6:14-cv-89, 2015 WL 993392, (E.D. Tex. Mar. 3, 2015), aff’d, No. 15-1525 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 9, 2016);

· Eolas Techs. Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., 521 Fed. App’x. 928 (Fed. Cir. 2013) (mem.);

· Southern Wine v. Mountain Valley, 712 F.3d 397 (8th Cir. 2013);

· Southern Wine v. Mountain Valley, 646 F.3d 526 (8th Cir. 2011);

· Gellman v. Telular Corp., 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 23950 (Fed. Cir. 2011);

· Taylor, et al. v. Acxiom, et al., 612 F.3d 325; (5th Cir. 2010);

· McNamara v. Felderhof, 410 F.3d 277 (5th Cir. 2005);

· Evans v. Allwhite, 111 S.W.3d 282 (Tex. App.—Texarkana 2003, no writ);

· Dallas Cardiology Assoc., P. A. v. Mallick, 978 S.W.2d 209 (Tex. App.—Texarkana 1998, writ denied);

· Cates v. Cincinnati Life Ins. Co., 947 S.W.2d 608 (Tex. App.—Texarkana 1997, no writ);

· Cates v. Cincinnati Life Ins. Co., 909 S.W.2d 186 (Tex. App.—Texarkana 1995, writ granted) (reversed by opinion above);

· Spiritas Holdings, Inc. v. Darling-Delaware Co., Inc., 875 S.W.2d 14 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth 1994, writ denied).

· F.D.I.C. v. Selaiden Builders, Inc., 973 F.2d. 1249 (5th Cir. 1992), cert. denied, 502 U.S. 1051, 113 S. Ct. 1944 (1993);

Recent Honors And Awards

· Ranked Individual, Intellectual Property – Chambers and Partners – 2020

· IP Lawyer of the Year – Arkansas – Global Law Experts – 2013 – 2020

· Top 250 Women in Litigation (U.S.) – Benchmark Litigation – 2012 – 2020

· Litigation Star – Benchmark Litigation – 2013 – 2020

· Top 50 Women Super Lawyers in Texas – Thomson Reuters – 2013, 2014

· Texas Super Lawyers list – Thomson Reuters – 2005 – 2020

· Top Women Lawyers in Texas – The Best Lawyers in America© – Woodward/White, Inc. – 2013, 2014

· IP Lawyer of the Year in Arkansas, US – M&A Today – 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

· Commercial Litigation “Lawyer of the Year” – Tyler, TX – The Best Lawyers in America – Woodward/White, Inc. – 2013

· Listed in The Best Lawyers in America – Commercial Litigation – Woodward/White, Inc. – since 2007

· IP Attorney of the Year – Arkansas – ACQ Global Awards – 2014 - 2020

· Top 250 Women in IP – Managing IP – 2014

· Texas Leaders in Law – Forbes Magazine – 2014, 2016

· Fortune 500 Go-To Law Firm – 2013, 2014

· Kristi Couvillon Pro Bono Award – Texas Civil Rights Project – 2014

· Best Attorney in Texarkana – Four States Living Magazine – 2005, 2006

· Idalee Raffaelli Hawkins Award for Professions – YWCA Tribute to Women – 2004

Recent Speeches and Articles

· ABOTA Mastering Virtual Advocacy – April 2021

· Page Keeton Civil Litigation Conference – “Picking the Jury During COVID and the Post-COVID World” – April 2021

· The Bar Association of San Francisco – “Women in Trial” – February 2021

· Texas Bar CLE course – “Voir Dire – Do’s and Don’ts under Texas and Federal Law” – July 2020

· Texas Association of Defense Counsel – “Litigation in Texas Proceeding in Unprecedented Times” – July 2020

· American Board of Trial Advocates – “Jury Trials in the Age of Pandemics” – July 2020

· San Francisco and East Texas American Board of Trial Advocates – “Who’s Zoomin’ Who: Taking Depositions Aretha Franklin Style” – June 2020

· Texas Bar CLE course – “Intellectual Property Law for Non IP Attorneys” – January 2020

· Eastern District of Texas Bench Bar Meeting – “Best Practices for Getting to Yes. Mediation Strategies and Tactics Through the Eyes of Those Who Know” – September 2019

· American Board of Trial Advocates – “Trial Depositions – Persuasion and Pitfalls” – June 2019

· Texas Bar Advanced Evidence and Discovery CLE course – “Depositions for Trial” – April and May 2019

· East Texas Bench Bar Conference – “In the Age of Diminishing Trials, What Should Women Lawyers Do to Obtain Lead Counsel Status?” – October 2018

· ABOTA Trial College – Yale University – June 2018

· Texas Bar CLE course – “Advanced Trial Strategies” – February 2018

· Texas Bar CLE course – “Damages in Civil Litigation’ – February 2018

· Eastern District of Texas Bench Bar Meeting – “From Patent Pilot Program Districts to the Federal Circuit: Do Patent Cases Deserve Special Treatment” – October 2017

· Oklahoma Bar Association Meeting – “Painting the Picture – Viewing Your Case From A Different Perspective & Making It Understandable” – March 2017

· IADC International Corporate College – Brussels, Belgium – October 2016

· Page Keeton Civil Litigation Conference – Austin, Texas – “How Intellectual Property Law Affects You and Your Practice” – October 2016

· ABOTA Trial College – Harvard University – July 2016

· DRI Rainmaker Workshop – February 2016

· Texas Bar CLE course – “Winning Your Case Before Trial” – January 2016

· Louisiana ABOTA Masters in Trial – “A Trial Demonstration from Opening Statements through Jury Deliberations” – December 2015

· American Bar Association Section Meeting – “Snakes and Lizards and Crocodiles (Oh my!): A Primer on the Reptile Theory of Trial Strategy” – April 2015

· Texas Bar CLE course – “Choosing and Courting a Jury” – March 2015

· Texas Bar CLE course – “Ten Things You Should Know About Handling a Business Case” – September 2014

· Texas Tech University – “10 Tips To Be An Exceptional Lawyer” – September 2014

· IADC Annual Meeting – “Countering the Reptile Strategy” – July 2014

· ABOTA Masters in Trial – Austin, Texas – June 2014

· Texas Bar CLE course – “Choosing and Courting a Jury” – May 2014

· ABOTA Masters in Trial – Cross-Examination and Closing - Austin, Texas – January 2014

· IADC Mid-Year Meeting – February 2013

· ABOTA Masters in Trial – Voir Dire and Opening Statements, San Antonio, Texas – January 2013

· IADC Trial Academy – Stanford University (Plaintiff team leader) – July/August 2012

· ABOTA Masters in Trial – State Bar of Texas – June 2012

· IADC Mid-Year Meeting – “Evidentiary Issues Key to Product Liability Cases”, February 2012

· DRI – Sharing Success for Women Seminar – “Making a Client Pitch”, February 2012

· DRI Annual Meeting – “The 21st Century Juror”, October 2011

· Advanced Civil Trial Course – IP Litigation Panel – July, August, and October 2011

· ABOTA Masters in Trial - Simi Valley, California – September 2011

· Eastern District Bench Bar Conference - "Myths and Mysteries of the Eastern District”, September, 2011, October, 2012, October, 2013

· ABOTA Masters in Trials - Arkansas Bar Association – June 2011

· Texas Bar CLE course – “Choosing and Courting a Jury” – March 2011

· Eastern District Bench Bar Conference - "The Heterogeneity of Eastern District of Texas - Exposing the Myth of a Homogenized District", November, 2010

· National Business Institute – “Proving Damages Caused by Mold Infestation in Arkansas”, May 2005

· Texarkana Young Lawyers Association – “Demonstrative Evidence Made Easy”, February 2005

Community Service

· Federal Circuit Bench and Bar Association (Chair, Scholarship Committee 2013-present)

· Texarkana Symphony Board (2019-present)

· Christus St. Michael Foundation Board of Directors (2014-2019)

· Abilene Christian University Board of Trustees (1993-2011)

· Junior League of Texarkana (1991-present, President 2005-2006)

· Women for Texas A & M – Texarkana Board of Directors (Charter Board Member 2005-2012)

· ALCOA Community Advisory Board (2004-2009)

· Texarkana Regional Arts and Humanities Counsel (Board of Directors 2000-2001)

· Women for the Arts (1995-present; President 2001)

· Salvation Army Advisory Board of Directors (2001-2019)

· Conifer Girl Scout Council Board of Directors (1998-2005)

· Opportunities, Inc. Advisory Guild (1999-2004)

· Christus St. Michael Health System -- Friends of the Foundation (1998-2014)

· Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) (1995-2007)

· Literary Council of Miller and Bowie Counties Board of Directors (2008-2019)

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