The Record
Hundreds of matters. Jury trials, bench trials, appeals. Here is some of it.
Civil & Commercial Litigation
Retained as defense counsel for a third-party defendant roughly sixty days before the jury-trial setting. Won traditional and no-evidence summary judgment dismissing every claim with prejudice. Our client owed nothing.
Star Café, LLC v. Johnny's Beer Garden LLC, Cause No. 141-350557-24, 141st Judicial District Court, Tarrant County, Texas. The motion dismissed fraud, conversion, fraudulent transfer, and conspiracy claims with prejudice (Feb. 27, 2026). The following month, the court entered judgment of $11,219,000 against other parties in the same case. Our client owed nothing.
Defended a property owner (appellee) through two separate appeals arising from post-foreclosure litigation. Both judgments affirmed; petition for review dismissed by the Supreme Court of Texas.
Nos. 05-24-01265-CV; 05-25-00536-CV; Tex. No. 26-0119
Represented the judgment-debtor side in garnishment litigation. The writ of garnishment was dissolved, a bill of review was granted vacating the underlying 2006 judgment, and the court ordered the garnished funds released to our client. The creditor's appeal was dismissed as moot.
Second Court of Appeals, Fort Worth, No. 02-23-00138-CV
Appellate counsel for the appellant in a dispute with a national bank Prosecuted the appeal until the matter was resolved, then dismissed it.
Fifth Court of Appeals, No. 05-25-00712-CV
Argued before the Seventh Court of Appeals (Amarillo) in a civil appeal. Watch the full argument.
Seventh Court of Appeals, No. 07-23-00209-CV
Watch the argumentAppellate counsel for consumers in credit-card collection cases against national issuers — a restricted appeal from a default judgment, and direct appeals from contract judgments out of Tarrant, Dallas, and Grayson County courts.
Nos. 02-23-00481-CV; 05-25-00189-CV; 05-26-00818-CV
Briefed a criminal direct appeal in the Fort Worth Court of Appeals — a prohibited-substance-in-a-correctional-facility conviction out of Parker County — then took the fight to the Court of Criminal Appeals on a petition for discretionary review.
No. 02-24-00045-CR; Tex. Crim. App. No. PD-0128-25
Repeat petition-for-review practice before the Supreme Court of Texas, spanning commercial-finance, governmental-immunity, and real-property appeals.
Tex. Nos. 23-0531; 25-0453; 26-0119
Appellate counsel for the property owners (appellees). After a no-evidence summary judgment dismissed the neighbors' negligence and gross-negligence claims over a fallen tree limb, defended that judgment on appeal — and the court affirmed in every respect, taxing all appellate costs against the appellants.
Twelfth Court of Appeals, No. 12-26-00107-CV
Numerous jury trials, including documented criminal jury trials in Tarrant County. A small case tried like a big one, because it was connected to a big one.
A small case tried like a big one, because it was connected to a big one. The verdict materially strengthened a client's ongoing personal-injury case — the seamless web in action.
Banks & debt buyers
Insurance carriers
Corporations & industries
Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case depends on its own facts and circumstances.