Jason S. McManis is a partner at AZA and the head of AZA’s intellectual property group. He is a skilled trial lawyer with extensive experience in front of the jury in courtrooms across the United States. Per IAM Patent 1000, which ranked him as a leading patent litigator in Texas, Mr. McManis “adapts to changing circumstances with alacrity and is often brought in to take over cases from previous counsel.” Lawdragon also named Mr. McManis to its Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide, a list of next-generation lawyers who have “vaulted to the forefront of the legal profession.”
Mr. McManis represents both plaintiffs and defendants in high stakes patent infringement and trade secret disputes, and his history of success includes cases involving all types of technologies, including wireless networking, financial services, digital media, data security, oilfield services, app development, and medical devices.
From handling cases involving a diverse array of technologies and legal issues, Mr. McManis has learned how to simplify complex and often highly technical issues for judges, juries, and clients. IAM Patent 1000 reports: “He easily resonates with a jury through distilling down complex technical details and understands the finer details of patent law to steer a case in his favour.”
Over the course of his career, Mr. McManis has taken on some of the largest companies in the world, helping to secure some of the largest plaintiff’s jury verdicts in the country in recent years, including over $1 billion in patent infringement verdicts against Apple, a $62.65 million verdict against United Healthcare, and a nearly $9 million verdict for a client protecting its trade secrets. Many of these verdicts have been recognized in the Texas Lawyer Verdicts Hall of Fame and among the Top 100 verdicts in the country by VerdictSearch and the National Law Journal.
In addition to his patent and trade secret work, Mr. McManis handles complex commercial disputes across the oil and gas, healthcare, commercial and residential real estate, automotive, and aviation industries. He also represents plaintiffs and defendants in catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases.
In further recognition of his trial success, Law360 named Mr. McManis as one of only five Rising Stars for Trials in the entire country in 2022, out of more than 1,350 nominations for accomplished lawyers under the age of 40. Thomson Reuters’ Texas Super Lawyers has also recognized Mr. McManis as a Texas Rising Star for six consecutive years, an honor for leading attorneys aged 40 and younger.
He is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and Dartmouth College. He is licensed to practice in Texas and in federal courts in Texas, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Colorado.
He has conducted continuing legal education for the State Bar of Texas, the Houston Bar Association and others on trials, depositions, evidence, and courtroom technology among other topics.
His full biography and list of cases can be seen at azalaw.com/our-attorneys/jason-mcmanis/
Updated July 2023
