Yvette Ostolaza is co-head of the firm's 190+ lawyer Complex Commercial Litigation practice and a member of the firm’s national Management Committee. She concentrates in the trial and supervision of complex civil litigation in state and federal courts throughout the United States and arbitrations. She has tried cases and argued appeals before the United States Court of Appeals and the Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas. She has also handled appeals to the Texas Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court. She also focuses in representing companies, board committees, and individual board members in internal investigations and reviews, including whistleblower, accounting, and executive issues. She has been selected to serve in the Roster of Neutral Arbitrators for AAA.
Ms. Ostolaza has significant experience in managing multi-jurisdictional disputes, including class actions, business torts, consumer fraud, financial services, constitutional, contracts, employment, fiduciary duty, advertising/sweepstakes, insurance, fraud, good faith, and accounting malpractice litigation, arbitration, simulation, and mediation. Ms. Ostolaza also has significant experience in managing Latin America-related litigation and arbitration. She has experience in counseling clients in reducing risks from consumer and advertising-related claims and representing clients in negotiations with state agencies on such claims.
In 2008, the Dallas Business Journal and the Association of Corporate Counsel named Ms. Ostolaza as one of the "Defenders" -- the top 15 business defense attorneys in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. She has been selected as one of 20 “Women of Excellence” honored nationwide by HispanicBusiness magazine (2010). She was also named by her peers as one of the “Best Women Lawyers” in Dallas in Business Litigation in D Magazine, and a Texas “Super Lawyer” in Business Civil Litigation (2005-2011). She is listed in Chambers USA in Business Litigation (2009-11) and Benchmark Litigation as a “Litigation Star” in Commercial Litigation –National Ranking (2010).
Ms. Ostolaza regularly speaks on class actions, investigations, and arbitration issues. She has been featured as a speaker on "Internal Investigations Best Practices" in America's Most Influential Women, broadcast in American Airlines, Northwest Airlines, and in Time Magazine and on CNN’s national airport edition. She is a Director of the State Bar of Texas.
Ms. Ostolaza is fluent in Spanish.