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Boasting a strong background in trade secrets, breach of contract and product liability disputes, Baker Botts L.L.P.’s broad litigation practice spans the gamut of commercial disputes. Based in Houston, Danny David is a go to for high-stakes disputes, including class actions, political crises and investigations. Richard Harper in New York spearheads the team’s involvement in business tort and contractual disputes, regularly called upon by tech, media and entertainment clients. Houston-based Amy Hefley co-chairs the litigation department and leads the firm’s securities litigation team. Linda Martin joined the team in New York from Freshfields in April 2025.
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Profile
Work Department
Litigation
Position
Partner
Deputy Department Chair - Litigation (Firmwide)
Practice Group Chair - Securities & Shareholder Litigation (Firmwide)
Career
Amy Hefley is the firm’s Deputy Chair of Litigation and co-chairs the Securities and Shareholder Litigation practice group. She is a seasoned courtroom lawyer with extensive experience representing companies and their officers and directors in all types of securities litigation, ranging from securities fraud class actions, to proxy litigation and appraisal actions, to breach of fiduciary duty and derivative suits in federal and state courts across the country. Amy also represents companies and audit and special committees in internal investigations and advises clients on preventing and responding to operational and corporate compliance issues. In addition to her securities practice, Amy has substantial experience representing companies in a broad range of complex commercial disputes involving contracts, fraud claims, trade secret misappropriation claims, and other business torts, and in energy litigation involving lease termination claims, joint operating and joint development agreements, midstream agreements, and title disputes. Amy has tried cases to a decision on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants and has successfully arbitrated claims in a variety of domestic and international forums.
Amy clerked for Hon. Emilio M. Garza, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (2006-07), and Hon. Ewing Werlein, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas (2004-06).
Memberships
State Bars of Texas and New York
U.S. Court of Appeals – Second and Fifth Circuits
U.S. District Courts – Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas; Eastern and Southern Districts of New York; District of Colorado
American Bar Association
Federal Bar Association – President 2020
Houston Bar Association
Education
J.D., The University of Texas School of Law 2004 (Order of the Coif; High Honors); B.A., History, University of Oklahoma 2001 (Phi Beta Kappa; Summa Cum Laude).
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Key clients
- Advanced Energy Capital, LLC
- Aetna, Inc.
- Alta Power LLC
- Assertio Therapeutics
- AT&T
- Atmos Energy Corporation
- Avangrid Renewables, LLC
- Avenue5 Residential, LLC
- Azure Biotech, Inc.
- Bravia Capital Hong Kong Limited
- Bristow FDBA ERA Group, Inc.
- Calpine Corporation
Work highlights
Secured a major trial victory after a seven-day trial for Computer Sciences Corporation in a trade secrets lawsuit against Tata Consultancy Services Limited.
Represented Mastercard in a two-week long jury trial in which Linkable Networks alleged that Mastercard stole its trade secrets and confidential information in breach of the parties’ contract in order to improperly compete with respect to credit card linked offers to cardholders.
Secured a verdict of over $43m in compensatory and punitive damages in a partnership dispute related to cannabis cultivation in Santa Barbara County.