Houston associate Katherine Drews and Houston partner Trey Peacock have been recognized by Texas Lawyer as part of the publication’s 2025 annual legal awards. Drews has been named among the state’s twenty-one young lawyers who are “On the Rise” and Peacock has been named a Finalist for Texas Lawyer’s Intellectual Property Attorney of the Year award. Susman Godfrey has also been named as a finalist for Litigation Department of the Year in the General Commercial Litigation category.
Drews has tried seven cases to a verdict in her three-and-a-half-year career. In 2025, Drews defeated a nine-figure claim as part of the Marshall Probate Litigation, one of the largest trust disputes in the world. Drews handled the cross-examination of the plaintiff’s lead witness, as well as the cross-examination of the plaintiff’s former employee, and immediately exposed the weaknesses of the plaintiff’s case. In 2024, Drews secured a $266 million jury verdict on behalf of the City of Baltimore against McKesson and AmerisourceBergen for their role in fueling the opioid epidemic. Drews handled the cross-examination of one of only four witnesses that defendants called in the liability phase of trial, as well as the direct-examination of the second witness to take the stand. Just a few weeks earlier, Drews had secured a “take nothing” judgment in favor of KBR, Inc., in a purported $360 million trade secret dispute.
In 2025, Peacock recovered a full judgment of almost $80M for The University of Texas against IDEXX, a veterinary products company, for breach of an exclusive patent license agreement involving testing for Lyme disease. Also in 2025, Peacock successfully represented Huawei in federal litigation brought by Netgear in the Central District of California. Netgear filed a series of antitrust, RICO, and breach of contract claims regarding negotiations between the parties over licensing to Huawei’s standard essential patents for WiFi 6 on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms. Peacock previously secured a nearly $40 million judgment for defendant, Repeat Precision, in an IP case brought by Diamondback Industries in federal court in Waco, Texas.
Drews will be recognized, and winners of the IP Attorney of the Year award, the Litigation Department of the Year award and other honors will be announced at an awards dinner on September 25 at the Arts District Mansion in Dallas, Texas.
