Iris Jones, chief marketing and client development officer at Akerman, spent the first few years of her career as the Austin city attorney and doing civil trial work at a small firm in Austin. Since then, Jones, who joined Akerman last May, has spent more than two decades working in client development and marketing.

Prior to joining Akerman during the pandemic, Jones formerly handled client relations and marketing at a number of firms including McNees Wallace & Nurick, Dykema Gossett, Chadbourne & Parke, and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.