Foster C. Johnson

Foster C. Johnson is a trial lawyer who focuses on complex commercial litigation. He has represented Fortune 100 companies in a variety civil actions, including contract disputes, oil and gas matters, non-compete claims, intellectual property litigation, and consumer and employment class actions.

His recent successes include a six-week trial that ended in a $41.6 million jury verdict against Lloyd’s of London. The case was one of the top 100 2017 verdicts in the nation according to the National Law Journal.

Mr. Johnson has also handled numerous appeals and mandamus proceedings in state and federal courts, including the United States Courts of Appeals for the 3rd, 5th, 9th, and D.C. Circuits, the Supreme Courts of Texas and California, numerous intermediate state courts of appeals, and the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.

Mr. Johnson was selected to the Texas Rising Stars list in 2018-2021 for his excellence in business litigation. The list honors the best lawyers in the state who are 40 or younger or those who have practiced no more than ten years.  Fewer than 2.5 percent of eligible Texas attorneys earn this recognition each year.

Before joining AZA, Mr. Johnson was a litigator at Baker Botts LLP.  He is a graduate of Stanford Law School, where he served on both the Stanford Law and Policy Review and the Stanford Technology Law Review. After law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Priscilla Owen of the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. Mr. Johnson is the author of Judicial Magic: the Use of Dicta as Equitable Remedy, published in The University of San Francisco Law Review in 2012.

Texas Lawbook published a feature story in 2021 about Mr. Johnson’s first career as a rock and roll star. The author explained how the creativity he cultivated writing, singing and playing music and the on-stage experience he had made him a better trial lawyer. See “For Aza Musician-turned-lawyer, the Courtroom Is Just a Different Stage.”