Banking & Finance Industry
Served as court-appointed Special Litigation Counsel to a Chapter 7 Trustee in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, while simultaneously representing the estate’s principal creditors, in a multi-year adversary proceeding asserting fraudulent-transfer and related claims arising from the diversion of a skilled nursing facility’s operating revenues. Structured and prosecuted the litigation under a court-approved litigation funding agreement permitting the joint pursuit of interrelated estate and non-estate claims, and guided the matter through extensive forensic discovery, dispositive-motion practice, and a negotiated resolution that included the Trustee’s court-approved sale of remaining estate claims to the funding creditor.
Defended a major U.S. financial institution through the MDL class action challenging overdraft fee practices in the Southern District of Florida, examining each named plaintiff and the pivotal plaintiff expert at deposition.
Defended a federal savings association and a global custodial bank in Dallas County district court against claims arising from a complex multimillion-dollar forged-endorsement check fraud scheme, obtaining complete dismissal of all claims against both institutions.
Defeated Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) claims against a national bank involving allegations of false credit reporting related to a consumer loan account the plaintiff attributed to identity theft.
Defended a national bank against accountholder claims arising from allegedly unauthorized wire transfers initiated through an online banking portal, securing dismissal on preemption grounds under Reg J and UCC Article 4A after coordinating a forensic investigation that confirmed the customer's provision of account security credentials to third parties.
Recovered damages for a national bank serving as Trustee for trust property destruction caused by a negligently conducted prescribed burn that escaped containment from adjacent property, including destruction of forestry resources, wildlife habitat, and pasture areas requiring extensive remediation.
Business & Commercial Litigation
Served as lead local counsel defending a national data aggregator against breach of contract and related claims brought by a downstream data broker, navigating an amalgam of predecessor agreements, overlapping amendments, and alleged oral terms.
Obtained voluntary dismissal of multimillion-dollar strict products liability and breach of warranty claims in the District of Nevada after demonstrating that the allegation — that the client assumed liabilities of a predecessor manufacturer incident to a corporate transaction — lacked factual basis.
Defeated a Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings in the Western District of Texas that sought dismissal of the client's extra-contractual claims in a $4.4 million insurance dispute involving extensive damage to commercial property.
Oil & Gas Litigation
Obtained a significant favorable settlement in an oil and gas investment fraud dispute involving a "bait and switch" scheme with recurrent changes in title ownership of the subject mineral interests — prosecuting fraud claims for the defrauded investors through the tracing of the successive title transfers.
Defended an operator and working-interest owners in a putative class action brought by royalty owners — organized in subclasses across three production units in the Rosewood Cotton Valley formation — alleging breach of the implied covenant to reasonably develop, opposing class certification on ascertainability and predominance grounds — handling all aspects of the defense from pleadings through class certification.
Defended an independent oil and gas operator against non-operator working interest owners seeking appointment of a receiver operator for 40 oil and gas wells in the Permian Basin.