Shah, Charlie M.

Wesley Hill balances a successful practice in patent, oil & gas, business, and federal criminal defense litigation. With more than a dozen trials to his credit as lead or co-lead trial counsel, including ten patent cases, Wesley brings broad courtroom experience to every case he handles. Wesley's trial successes include multi-million dollar plaintiff's verdicts and no-liability findings for defense clients.  Most recently, Wesley obtained a defense jury verdict for Ralcorp Holdings and Medallion Foods, defeating claims by Frito-Lay for patent infringement, trademark infringement, and theft of trade secrets.  To read more, click here. Other recent trial successes include defense jury verdicts for Callaway Golf Company and Target Corporation, as well as a substantial plaintiff's verdict for an oil and gas operator.  Having assisted clients with the resolution of hundreds of cases, Wesley understands how to identify clients' priorities and achieve their objectives, whether through litigation, settlement, or trial.

A former briefing attorney for the Honorable T. John Ward, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas, Wesley is chairman of the Eastern District of Texas Local Rules Committee and is intimately familiar with practice in the district.  Wesley graduated second in his law school class at Texas Tech University (J.D. 2001) and received the Texas Young Lawyers Association State Moot Court Best Advocate Award. A native East Texan, Wesley is also a graduate of the University of Texas at Tyler (B.A. 1998).