Ian Stephens is an associate in Vartabedian, Katz, Hester & Haynes LLP’s Dallas office who focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation. He assists clients in state and federal litigation involving business disputes, including contract, fiduciary, property, employment, and other complex matters. Before joining VKHH, Ian gained litigation and appellate experience at firms in Fort Worth and Dallas and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Bill Davis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas and a judicial intern to the Honorable Karen Gren Scholer of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. His experience includes conducting legal research, drafting pleadings and motions, preparing discovery, and analyzing evidentiary and other legal issues.

Ian earned his law degree from Texas A&M University School of Law, where he graduated third in his class with concentrations in federal litigation and workplace law. While in law school, he served as Publications Editor of the Texas A&M Law Review and competed as a moot court oralist. He was a quarterfinalist in the National Health Law Competition and was named Third-Best Oralist in the Gibbons Criminal Procedure Competition. He also participated in the Civil Rights Clinic, where his team won the Clinical Legal Education Association Outstanding Clinic Team Award.

Before law school, Ian earned his B.A. in Political Science, magna cum laude, from Norwich University, where he was a member of the Corps of Cadets and U.S. Army ROTC and served as a squad leader.