Mark N. Osborn Areas of Practice Mark Osborn is a partner with Kemp Smith's Litigation Department. He has over 20 years experience representing clients in commercial lawsuits and appeals in state and federal courts. A substantial portion of his practice is in the areas of financial, real estate, contract, class action, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and unfair competition litigation, and trademark and copyright registration. He is a member of the Litigation, Intellectual Property, Antitrust and Business Litigation, and Appellate Sections of the State Bar of Texas. Mr. Osborn was admitted to practice in Texas in 1984 and is also admitted to practice in the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Western, Northern, Southern and Eastern Federal District Courts in Texas. Mr. Osborn has authored articles, lectured and organized continuing legal education programs for the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Texas, and local professional and business groups on litigation in Mexico, legal ethics, using technology in the practice of law, antitrust law, intellectual property law, state and federal debt collection law, litigation involving the FDIC, and pro-bono death penalty representation. Professional Affiliations State Bar of Texas El Paso Bar Association College of the State Bar of Texas Texas Bar Foundation American Bar Association Bars & Courts Texas, 1984 USCRTAPP 5th CIR USDISTCRT WD TX USDISTCRT SD TX USDISTCRT ED TX USDISTCRT ND TX Education Rice University, B.S.M.E., 1981 Texas Tech University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1984 Professional and Civic Involvement In 2006, Mr. Osborn received the Professionalism Award from the El Paso Bar Association. In 2004, he was chosen as the Outstanding Lawyer of El Paso and he received a Presidential Citation from the State Bar of Texas for providing leadership to the State Bar’s technology plan and for his work on the development of its new website. From 2002-2005 Mr. Osborn served as a Director on the Board of the State Bar of Texas including serving on the Board's Executive Committee and serving as chair of the Board’s Technology Oversight Subcommittee. He is currently serving on the Texas Supreme Court’s Professional Ethics Committee for the State Bar of Texas and serving as Chair of the Technology Advisory Committee of the State Bar of Texas. Mr. Osborn has served as president of the El Paso Bar Association and the El Paso Young Lawyers Association, and as a director of the Texas Young Lawyers Association and the El Paso Legal Assistance Society. In 1990 he was chosen as the Outstanding Young Lawyer of El Paso. Mr. Osborn is a member of the College of the State Bar of Texas, the State Bar of Texas and the American Bar Association. He is also a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation and the American Bar Foundation, and a Deacon and Sunday School teacher at Coronado Baptist Church. A 1981 mechanical engineering graduate of Rice University, he went on to graduate from the Texas Tech University School of Law in 1984, cum laude and Order of the Coif.

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