Recently named in the 2024 and 2025 editions of “Best Lawyers in America,” identified in 2024 and 2025 Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Litigators in America, recognized by D Magazine as a “Best Lawyer Under 40” in 2020 – 2024, and recognized on D Magazine’s 2024 list of “Best Lawyers” overall, Grant Schmidt is the first Managing Partner of Hilgers Graben's Dallas office. Grant has extensive trial, oral argument, and deposition experience, and he specializes in complex commercial litigation, intellectual property litigation, and white-collar criminal defense. Grant’s advocacy style is collegial yet aggressive, strategic, and principled. Hilgers Graben PLLC is a nationwide litigation and discovery counsel firm specializing in complex commercial and intellectual property litigation, discovery counsel services, government investigations and regulatory enforcement services, and trademark services. The firm has nearly 140 professionals nationwide, including top attorneys it has recruited from leading firms around the country. The firm has been named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in America five times, including for 2023, and was named a “Best Law Firm” for 2022, 2023, and 2024 by U.S. News and World Report. It also is one of the largest woman-owned firms in the country, and recently was certified by NAMWOLF and WBENC.