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Michael Considine represents clients in connection with significant corporate events, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, carve-out divestitures/acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate restructurings. He has extensive experience in a variety of industries, including consumer products, energy, manufacturing, professional sports teams, real estate, and software and technology. Michael is a founding partner of the Firm’s Dallas office, which opened in July of 2018. Michael has been re...

Russell W. Budd, a mainstay of the plaintiff’s bar with more than forty-five years’ experience representing victims of corporate wrongdoing, has been a trailblazer for the entirety of his career. Serving as a Baron & Budd shareholder since 1985 and president and managing shareholder since 2002, Mr. Budd presides over one of the nation’s largest plaintiffs’ firms. Founded in 1977, Baron & Budd has nearly 200 full-time employees and is headquartered in Dallas, Te...

Turner Thornton is a highly-regarded Fort Worth family law attorney who leads Varghese Summersett’s Family Law Division. A skilled negotiator and experienced litigator, Turner has successfully guided hundreds of individuals and families through the most tumultuous time of their lives. Divorce, child custody disputes, and property division are among the most contentious and complex cases in the legal system. Turner understands the intricacies and complexities involved in family law and w...

Practice Areas Commercial & Business Litigation Temporary Restraining Orders & Temporary Injunctions Professional Liability Legal Malpractice & Legal Ethics Disqualification Disputes Appellate Practice Emphasis Carol helps businesses and individuals solve their commercial legal problems, everything from addressing disputes before a lawsuit is filed to aggressively pursuing full-blown litigation and trials. A lawyer for more than 20 years, Carol is experienced, creative, tough and ...

Matthew W. Luensmann’s practice involves a variety of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, and leasing. His real estate practice focuses on representing purchasers and sellers in the sale of improved and unimproved real property, including title and survey review and the preparation of conveyance and financing documents. Mr. Luensmann also has experience representing landlords and tenants in retail, office, and industrial lease transactions. Mr. Lue...

Chad Arnette is a partner in the firm's Litigation Practice Section. Mr. Arnette represents corporate and individual clients in a wide variety of business litigation in state and federal courts involving real estate, healthcare, oil and gas, employment, antitrust, tax and other matters. Mr. Arnette has participated in numerous civil and criminal trials in state and federal courts, multi-week administrative proceedings, arbitrations, and appeals.

Jeff Ryan is a founding partner of Chamblee Ryan and has served as the firm’s Vice President since its inception. Jeff’s primary focus is on litigation and trial work representing individuals, corporations, health care providers, and national transportation companies in state and federal courts in Texas and nationwide. Jeff has extensive experience handling professional malpractice, product liability suits, commercial disputes, nonsubscriber claims, and general negligence lawsuits...

Mr. Freeman is the founding and managing member of Freeman Law, PLLC. He is a dual-credentialed attorney-CPA, author, law professor, and trial attorney. Mr. Freeman has been recognized multiple times by D Magazine as one of the Best Lawyers in Dallas, and by Super Lawyers and Texas Monthly magazine. He was recently honored by the American Bar Association, receiving it’s “On the Rise – Top 40 Young Lawyers” in America award, and recognized as a Top 100 Up-And-Coming Att...

Angela Lopez is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Immigration Law. Angela, who practices law in Dallas, Texas, has been recognized since 2022. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Angela is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Liz Schartz represents management in client counseling and litigation of employment and labor law matters. Her expertise includes litigating discrimination, wage-and-hour, employee benefit, and state-law contract and tort claims; counseling employers on sensitive personnel and complex employment law matters; workplace investigations; employee classification issues; executive compensation, change-in-control, and separation issues; drafting and litigating non-competition and related covenants; ...