M&A and business transactions, federal and state tax planning and controversy, outside general counsel, estate and family advisory, probate and estate administration, and civil and criminal appeals. The common thread is the closely held business — and the family that owns it.
Owners of closely held Texas businesses, their families, and high-net-worth households — typically clients whose affairs have outgrown basic planning: a business approaching a transition, concentrated or inherited wealth, or multi-entity structures that need to work together.
Our fees reflect the judgment applied to your problem — the experience it takes to see the issue, structure the solution, and get it right — not the number of pages produced or the hours logged producing them. Where technology makes the mechanical parts of legal work faster, that efficiency is yours, not a larger bill. We discuss fees candidly at the outset and structure them to fit the engagement.
Deliberately. We invest in modern legal technology, including AI, to handle the mechanical parts of legal work — reviewing documents at volume, first-pass research, organizing deal records — always under attorney supervision. That makes us faster and more thorough. What it does not replace is judgment: every analysis, strategy, and document that leaves this firm is the work of the attorney responsible for it.
Yes. Probate, guardianship, and estate administration are anchored by Paula Flowerday, of counsel to the firm, who has practiced law in Texas for more than three decades and focuses exclusively on probate and guardianship — working alongside Renee Jolley, who is Board Certified in Estate Planning and Probate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.
We are based in Flower Mound and serve clients across Texas. Scott Bodkin is also licensed in New York, and Jason Niehaus handles appeals in the Texas Courts of Appeals, the U.S. Fifth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Board certification is the Texas Board of Legal Specialization’s designation for attorneys who have demonstrated substantial experience in a specialty area, passed a rigorous examination, and been evaluated by peers and judges. Renee Jolley is Board Certified in Estate Planning and Probate Law — a credential held by fewer than 1% of Texas attorneys.
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