Michele Focht is a Partner in Freeman Mathis & Gary’s Dallas Office, Co-Chair of the firm's Data & Privacy Compliance national practice team, and part of the Tech Errors and Omissions Practice Section and Compliance & Incident Response Team.
Ms. Focht’s commercial litigation practice focuses on litigation of intellectual property claims (trade secret, trademark, copyright). She also handles a variety of more traditional commercial litigation including commercial contract, unfair business practice, and trade libel and false advertising, as well as claims brought against individual owners, directors, and officers for alleged breach of fiduciary duty, and the alleged improper usurping of business opportunities.
Ms. Focht comes to Freeman Mathis & Gary from Baker McKenzie where she was part of the Commercial Litigation practice area and a member of the Discovery and Cyber team. There her practice included working with multinational clients on high profile corporate actions including complex litigation. Ms. Focht also has experience in working on cyber and privacy breach incidents as well as working with federal and state regulatory agencies and State Attorney Generals.