AZA Promotes Prominent Litigator Elizabeth Pannill Fletcher to Partner
Elizabeth Pannill Fletcher
Successful litigator Elizabeth “Lizzie” Pannill Fletcher has been promoted to partner at Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, Alavi & Mensing P.C., or AZA.
A fourth-generation Texas trial lawyer and native Houstonian, Ms. Fletcher has a lengthy track record of courtroom wins, including the July 2014 dismissal of a multimillion-dollar breach of contract and fraud lawsuit against a Houston investment banker, the firm said in an announcement.
She also earned a take-nothing verdict in 2014 for a Houston businesswoman who was sued over proceeds from allegedly fraudulent commercial property sales. Ms. Fletcher’s opening statement in that case was so masterful that the presiding judge, Harris County Civil District Judge Randy Wilson, offered his praise in a column he wrote for the Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas.
“The jury was enraptured by the story,” Judge Wilson wrote in the “From My Side of the Bench” column. “At one point, my court reporter remarked that she was about to cry during the opening. Think about it – in a case involving an alleged constructive trust, the court reporter is on the verge of tears.”