Practice Areas:
Business Litigation
Securities & Financial Fraud Litigation
Practice Description and Representative Cases:
Aimee Williams is experienced in all phases of litigation, from initial investigation through appeal, and she has broad expertise in Business Litigation and Securities & Financial Fraud Litigation matters.
Aimee is an experienced advocate who represents a variety of clients in state and federal courts in cases involving statutory and common law fraud, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, misrepresentation, copyright infringement, and pharmaceutical products liability.
Aimee also represents companies, directors, officers, and accountants in securities fraud lawsuits, shareholder derivative lawsuits, corporate governance matters, and investigations initiated both internally by the client and externally by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Texas State Securities Board. She also advises clients on insurance and indemnification issues affecting directors and officers.
Following are just a few of Aimee’s representative cases:
- Represented a leading silicon and subsystems public company during a SEC investigation, consolidated securities fraud class action and consolidated shareholder derivative suits;
- Successfully defended a multimillion-dollar public software company in a shareholder derivative suit in federal district court and in the subsequent appeal to Fifth Circuit;
- Successfully defended a major accounting firm in a securities fraud class action in federal district court and in the subsequent appeal to the Fifth Circuit;
- Defended an international telecommunications company against alleged breach of contract and misrepresentation; and
- Achieved a settlement on behalf of a plaintiff in a copyright infringement action.
Before attending law school, Aimee was an auditor with Deloitte & Touche. During law school, she served as a judicial extern for the Honorable A. Joe Fish of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. After earning her legal degree, she served as a law clerk for the Honorable Henry A. Politz, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Aimee was a trial attorney in the Dallas office of Baker Botts L.L.P. until she joined Sayles Werbner in 2009.
Publications:
The Call to Action: Clients’ Demand for Diversity,” The Woman Advocate, American Bar Association, Section of Litigation, Spring 2008
Achieving Diversity in Law Firms: How Several Law Firms Are Addressing the Challenge,” The Woman Advocate, American Bar Association, Section of Litigation, Spring 2008
"The Road to Lead Plaintiff: The Basics," Securities Litigation Journal, American Bar Association, Section of Litigation, Spring 2006
Presentations:
Communicating Across the Generation Gap,” American Bar Association, Section of Litigation Leadership Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, June 2007
"Leadership Skills: Developing the Right Stuff," American Bar Association, Section of Litigation, San Antonio, April 12, 2007
"The Federal Securities Laws and Attorney Liability in the New Millennium: What Does the Future Hold?" Dallas Bar Association, Securities Section, Dallas, June 1999
Professional Activities and Honors:
Recognized by D Magazine as one of the “Best Women Lawyers in Dallas,” 2010
Recognized as one of the "Best Lawyers in Dallas" by D Magazine, 2007 – 2009
Recognized by Texas Monthly as a "Texas Rising Star," 2004, 2006 – 2010
American Bar Association Section of Litigation: Co-Chair of Advanced Planning Leadership; Securities Litigation Committee; Business Torts Litigation Committee; Commercial and Business Litigation Committee
American Bar Foundation, Fellow
Dallas Association of Young Lawyers, Vice President 2004-2005
Dallas Bar Association
Dallas Bar Foundation, Fellow
The Patrick E. Higginbotham American Inn of Court, Barrister
Dallas Opera, Amici di Opera
Education:
Southern Methodist University School of Law, J.D., summa cum laude, 1999
Order of the Coif
SMU Law Review Association, Executive Board
Hatton W. Sumners Scholar
University of Oklahoma, B.Acc., Honors Program, summa cum laude, 1995
Beta Gamma Sigma
Bar Admissions:
State Bar of Texas
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
United States District Courts for the Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas
