Overview
(July 23, 2025, Houston) – Steptoe LLP associate Lena Silva has been elected President of the Board of Directors of the Houston Young Lawyers Association (HYLA). The HYLA is a bar association of Houston young attorneys consisting of 1,800+ members. Their mission is to help members learn, lead, network, and serve.
Lena Silva focuses her practice on commercial litigation and white-collar defense and investigations. She represents clients on both sides of the 'v' and across a broad range of industries with cases spanning from the representation of individual plaintiffs to bet-the-company business disputes with parallel white collar, regulatory and criminal investigations. She is an experienced litigator in both state and federal courts, as well as in private arbitrations.
About Steptoe
In more than 110 years of practice, Steptoe has earned an international reputation for vigorous representation of clients before governmental agencies, successful advocacy in litigation and arbitration, and creative and practical advice in structuring business transactions. Steptoe has more than 500 lawyers and other professional staff across offices in Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington. For more information, visit www.steptoe.com.