Buether Joe & Counselors, LLC

BJC is committed to offering clients more effective and efficient representation in intellectual property and other complex commercial litigation with flexible billing arrangements focused on achieving successful and cost-efficient results.BJC was formed by former Greenberg Traurig shareholders in its Dallas IP litigation section. Mr. Buether formerly served as the head of Greenberg Traurig Dallas' IP litigation group.
Mr. Buether was a founding member of the litigation boutique McKool Smith, P.C., helping start its patent litigation practice and has been honored as a Texas SuperLawyer every year since 2004. Before McKool Smith, he practiced law at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Johnson & Gibbs.
Mr. Joe was associated with Holtzman Urquhart & Moore in Houston before joining Mr. Buether at McKool Smith in 1996. Messrs. Buether and Joe later teamed up while practicing at the Dallas law firm of Godwin Gruber to win a $41 million judgment for Halliburton in the first patent case tried by Judge Leonard Davis in the Eastern District of Texas.Since then, Mr. Joe has represented a variety of national and international clients in patent, intellectual property and other business litigation and in licensing matters and has been honored as a Texas Rising Star from 2006 to 2008 and as a Texas SuperLawyer every year since 2013.
BJC's members are each rated 5.0 out of 5.0 AV Preeminent through Martindale-Hubbell's peer review ratings system.

Locations	No. of Attorneys
Dallas, TX	7

Practice Areas	No. of Attorneys
Antitrust and Competition	2
Data Privacy	1
Government Contracts	2
IP	10
IP - Litigation General	6
IP - Patent	1
IP - Trademark/Copyright	4
Litigation	2