Aaron Henrickson has practiced law for over 20 years in the metro Atlanta area. Mr. Henrickson has litigated well over 1,000 criminal cases including charges of murder, rape, arson, drug possession and trafficking, armed robbery, child molestation, vehicular homicide, and DUI. He has tried more than 80 jury trials to verdict while handling countless bond hearings, probable cause hearings, probation revocations, motions to suppress, and bench trials.

Claire Abernathy Henry is a partner at Ward, Smith & Hill, LLP and a native of Longview, Texas. Ms. Henry has 15 years of experience in complex commercial litigation and patent litigation in Texas courts. Before joining Ward, Smith & Hill, Ms. Henry served as a briefing attorney to the Honorable T. John Ward, former U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas, one of the busiest patent litigation courts in the nation. Ms. Henry has extensive knowledge of federal court practice and patent litigation in the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas. For the past decade, Ms. Henry has represented plaintiffs and defendants in commercial disputes, securities litigation, False Claims Act cases, anti-trust litigation, and class actions as well as high-stakes patent litigation in courts in the Eastern and Western District of Texas. Ms. Henry has been involved in dozens of patent trials, and her trial experience includes jury selection, opening and closing statements, and direct and cross examinations of expert and fact witnesses. MS. Henry’s experience has earned her recognition as a Texas Super Lawyers Rising Star every year from 2012 through 2019 and as a Texas Super Lawyer in 2021 and 2022. She was also named among the Top 100 Up-and-Coming Attorneys in Texas as well as the Top 50 Up-and-Coming Females in Texas in 2018 and 2019. Ms. Henry is a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation and a member of The Honorable T. John Ward American Inn of Court.Although a native of East Texas, Ms. Henry attended Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts for high school, where she graduated magna cum laude. Ms. Henry graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Vanderbilt University in 2002, before earning her law degree from Stanford Law School in 2005. Ms. Henry is married to David Henry, a partner at Carroll, Maloney, Henry, & Nelson PLLC. They have two daughters.Ms. Henry is active in the East Texas community and has been on numerous boards, including the Board of Directors of the Longview Economic Development Corporation, Newgate Homeless Mission, ArtsView Children’s Theatre, The Longview Museum of Fine Arts, and the Johnson Foundation. Ms. Henry attends First United Methodist Church in Longview, where she serves on the Board of Trustees. Ms. Henry has also served as a volunteer for the Vanderbilt University Commodore Recruitment Program. While attending law school, Ms. Henry volunteered as a sexual assault counselor and victim’s advocate.

Over the past 25 years, Thomas J. Henry Injury Attorneys has grown into one of the largest plaintiff's firms in Texas, housing more than 125 attorneys and 350 supporting staff. The firm has eight locations in Texas- with offices in San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Austin, El Paso, and Houston. Thomas J. Henry Injury Attorneys has received national headlines for the multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements obtained by our attorneys and has litigated against some of the largest companies in the world, including Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 Companies. Our attorneys are regularly involved in complex litigation in courtrooms across the country. The firm’s founder, Thomas J. Henry, has been featured in Forbes Magazine as a Texas Leader in Law and is a lifetime member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and Rue Ratings’ Best Attorneys in America.

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As a first generation American, Christine Sohar Henter exemplifies a passionate commitment to the practice of international trade law. She represents companies, trade associations, and governments on international trade matters including import trade remedies, customs compliance, export controls, sanction laws, and international business transactions, based on her public and private sector experience. Christine started her legal career in public service. She was a senior attorney with the Office of the Chief Counsel for Import Administration (now the Office of Enforcement & Compliance) at the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC). There, she advised U.S. government officials on compliance with U.S. trade laws and represented the U.S. in judicial appeals domestically before courts and internationally before the World Trade Organization (WTO) and North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) panels. Christine was also the lead attorney for Commerce's Office of Textiles and Apparel, drafting implementation regulations, counseling on the application and negotiation of international textile and free trade agreements. Prior to DOC, Christine served as a legal adviser for a Commissioner and Chairperson at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), assisting with trade remedy decisions, responding to inquiries from Congressional members, and overseeing 337 reviews. Before pursuing her government legal service in Washington, D.C., she assisted numerous companies with their export business through the Denver US Export Assistance Center. Christine's import trade practice includes advising clients on customs compliance, trade remedy proceedings (antidumping duty, countervailing duty and safeguard cases), Foreign Trade Zones, Buy America requirements, and Section 337 intellectual property investigations. She also helps clients successfully navigate the complex rules of international trade agreements, trade legislation and regulations before the DOC, ITC, and the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), as well as import requirements of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Fish and Wildlife Services, and Department of Agriculture. Additionally, Christine has helped companies develop import or customs compliance programs and safeguard supplier relationships and supply chain management to mitigate risks, and has represented U.S. and non-U.S. companies before U.S. government agencies. She advises on trade restrictions, tariff classifications, valuation, marking, country of origin, ruling requests, internal advice requests, responses to information requests, and protests. She also assists company and trade association clients with tariff matters under Section 301 and Section 232, including exclusion requests and appeals related to these tariffs. Christine also assists companies with complying with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), including supply chain tracing, compliance training, implementing compliance procedures and policies, and development of comprehensive business compliance programs. Her experience in export controls issues ranges from assisting companies with a wide range of compliance matters, such as classification of encrypted technology, software, computer and aerospace products, to navigating ever-evolving export regulations and sanctions laws. Christine also represents clients for voluntary disclosures, developing compliance programs, and obtaining export licenses and other export authorizations under the Commerce Control List of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the U.S. Munitions List of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). She also counsels clients on U.S. sanctions and embargoes enforced by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and foreign investment matters before the departments of State, Commerce, Defense and Treasury. In addition, Christine advises U.S. and non-U.S. businesses regarding foreign direct investment in U.S.-based corporations, and represents clients before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) by conducting due diligence, drafting notices and developing risk mitigation plans for sensitive infrastructure. She also counsels companies on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by developing compliance programs, analyzing transactions for potential liability, conducting internal reviews, and drafting contracts for agreements with non-US-based representatives. She co-leads three subject matter expert teams assisting the Special Compliance Coordinator appointed by the U.S. Department of Commerce to monitor, assess and report on the U.S. export control compliance of Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipment Corporation, of Shenzhen, China, and ZTE Kangxun Telecommunications Ltd. of Hi-New Shenzhen, China (collectively, ZTE). Prior to joining Barnes & Thornburg, Christine was in private practice, where she was involved in litigating the most recent trade remedies case before the U.S. Supreme Court, Eurodif S.A. v. United States. Additionally, Christine teaches basic and advanced level courses across the country on compliance with U.S. export control laws and regulations, such as the ITAR, EAR and OFAC restrictions.