Haynes and Boone, LLP announces the promotion of 12 lawyers across the firm’s Austin, Dallas, Dallas-North, Houston, New York, and Orange County offices to its partnership ranks, including OCBA Member Jason T. Lao.

Lao is a member of the Intellectual Property Litigation and Patent Litigation Practice Groups in Haynes and Boone’s Orange County office. He has experience handling disputes related to patents, trade secrets, copyrights, and complex technology issues. Lao has represented clients across various industries and technologies, including biotech, semiconductor, wireless communications, smart meters, standards patents, trusted computing, digital rights management, satellite technology, virtual machines, and cybersecurity. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, his master’s degree from the University of Michigan, and his juris doctor from New York University School of Law.