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Ahtoosa Dale is a trial lawyer with a focus on patent litigation and complex disputes. She combines her technical and legal training to focus on IP litigation spanning multiple technologies and business disputes spanning various industries.
Ahtoosa focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation in various industries and IP litigation across differing technologies. She advises industry-leading clients on intricate business matters and IP-related issues across a broad spectrum of technologies, such as computer systems and architectures, virtual systems, mobile applications, networking, and medical devices. She also has experience representing corporations and individuals in business matters including intellectual property, employment and business disputes, class actions, consumer privacy, and product liability.
Ahtoosa has been a team member in several trials. Her courtroom and stand-up experience span multiple venues, as she has significant experience arguing hearings in both trial court and arbitration settings, taking and defending witnesses at depositions, preparing witnesses to give testimony at trials and hearings, drafting substantive briefs in both trial and appellate court, and putting on and cross-examining witnesses at trial. She also spent three months on loan as an assistant district attorney in Dallas County, where she tried numerous criminal jury trials to verdict. Early in her career, she served as second chair in a civil pro bono trial in federal court, representing and successfully obtaining all requested relief on behalf of an inmate in Texas state prison related to his ability to practice certain religious tenets while imprisoned.
Prior to joining the firm, Ahtoosa served as a Judicial Clerk for the Honorable Kimberly Priest Johnson for the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas. She has undergraduate degrees in computer engineering and mathematics and has experience as a software developer for hospital e-documentation applications. Ahtoosa has a working knowledge of C++, Java, C#, and XML.
J.D., Baylor University School of Law
B.S., Southern Methodist University
Texas
Judicial Clerk, Honorable Kimberly Priest Johnson, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Member, Dallas Bar Association
Member, Honorable Barbara M. G. Lynn American Inn of Court, 2022-2024
Member, Texas Association Against Sexual Assault
Programming Co-Chair, ChIPs USPTO Chapter
February 3, 2026
King & Spalding Welcomes Nine-Partner Litigation Group in Expansion of Commercial and IP Litigation Capabilities
February 3, 2026
King & Spalding Welcomes Nine-Partner Litigation Group in Expansion of Commercial and IP Litigation Capabilities
February 3, 2026
King & Spalding Welcomes Nine-Partner Litigation Group in Expansion of Commercial and IP Litigation Capabilities
J.D., Baylor University School of Law
B.S., Southern Methodist University
Texas
Judicial Clerk, Honorable Kimberly Priest Johnson, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Member, Dallas Bar Association
Member, Honorable Barbara M. G. Lynn American Inn of Court, 2022-2024
Member, Texas Association Against Sexual Assault
Programming Co-Chair, ChIPs USPTO Chapter