Brown Fox Adds Immediate Depth to Labor & Employment Group and New Intellectual Property Practice with Additions of Margaret Mead and Zach Hilton

March 13, 2019 by

Board-certified labor and employment attorney Margaret Mead has joined Brown Fox PLLC as a Partner, bringing over two decades of employment law and first-chair trial experience to the firm. Ms. Mead is a graduate of Baylor Law School and received her BA from the University of Kansas. She brings a wealth of litigation experience in both labor and employment and business and commercial litigation.

Zach Hilton, another Baylor Law grad, joins Brown Fox as Of Counsel. Zach graduated with a BS from Texas A&M, and later obtained a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. He is a registered patent and trademark attorney with over a decade of experience procuring patents and trademark registrations before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and internationally. Zach also provides technical expertise in intellectual property litigation.

Managing Partner Russ Brown shared, “Brown Fox is constantly striving to strengthen our role as a full-service boutique for the most pressing needs of our valued business clients. Margaret is an expert in the labor and employment arena and immediately enhances our ability to quickly and efficiently serve clients. Zach adds an entirely new practice area to the firm, and one in which our current clients have needs. He can handle patent prosecution and trademark registration across the globe, and with the combination of Zach and litigation partner Eric Wood, we now have a gifted IP litigation team ready for trial. We are thrilled with the addition of these talented lawyers.”

Brown Fox is a Dallas-based law firm, primarily focused on business/commercial litigation, corporate and securities matters, labor and employment counseling and litigation, and intellectual property. The firm’s representative clientele includes start-ups; partnerships; small to mid-size, private Texas companies; publicly traded companies; and international corporations.  The firm also regularly handles contractual negotiations/disputes for C-level executives, upper management, and key employees.

At Brown Fox we believe that regardless of the legal circumstance, fierce advocacy, strategy, and tactics must always be partnered with the utmost integrity.  This foundational belief is why our motto, Character Matters®, is at the heart of everything we do.

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Founded in 2010, Brown Fox is a business boutique law firm focused on serving businesses, executives and entrepreneurs in practice areas most commonly needed to advance business growth, manage risk, and defend from attack. The firm’s representative clientele includes companies ranging from start-ups to publicly traded companies. The firm has offices in Dallas and Frisco.

Best Lawyers recently named Brown Fox a Tier 1 Best Law Firm for a third year in a row, Chambers & Partners has recognized the firm as a top small to midsize firm in both of its Regional Spotlights, and Inc. 5000 has twice recognized the firm as one of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in America. The firm’s attorneys have garnered over seventy Super Lawyers & Rising Stars honors, several Best Lawyers honors from both D Magazine and Best Lawyers in America, among other honors.

Character Matters® is the firm’s foundational maxim; its core values of integrity, servant leadership, excellence, and impact are its roots. Brown Fox is committed to aggressively and creatively representing our clients, while staying true to the firm’s guiding principles. Learn more about Brown Fox by clicking here.


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