King & Sommer, LLP

JANET L. KING

Janet L. King, an AV rated lawyer with 29 years of experience, focuses her practice on corporate and business transactions representing mid-sized and small businesses, including business owners, non-profit organizations, health care providers and women-owned and minority-owned businesses.

A native Texan, Jan graduated from the University of Texas in Austin in 1975 (with honors), and remained in Austin to obtain her law degree from the University of Texas School of Law in May 1978. She worked as a briefing attorney for Honorable Mary Lou Robinson, Chief Justice of the Texas Court of Civil Appeals sitting in Amarillo, Texas, and then served as a Law Clerk for United States District Judge Mary Lou Robinson, when she was appointed to the federal bench. After her clerkship, Jan joined the law firm of Underwood Wilson Berry Stein & Johnson in Amarillo in 1980 as an associate and later a partner.

In 1990, Jan and her family relocated to San Antonio and she joined the law firm of Small, Craig & Werkenthin, P.C. as a partner in their San Antonio office, and later became the Partner-in-Charge of that office. In 1999, when Small Craig & Werkenthin, P.C. joined the law firm of Jackson Walker LLP, she became a partner in that firm and remained there until 2007, when she left to form King & Sommer, LLP.

Representative Matters

Some examples of her experience in specific matters include:

Representation of seller is sale of large oil well servicing business
Representation of sellers in sale of franchise and non-franchise plumbing businesses
Representation of seller of multiple franchise restaurants
Representation of multiple clients to obtain minority-owned or women-owned certifications (federal, state, regional and private certifications)
Representation of multiple non-profit organizations (charitable, educational and religious) in connection with formation and obtaining federal tax-exempt recognition and in governance and operations
Representation of national alcoholic beverage manufacturer in negotiation of long term manufacturing agreement
Representation of national alcoholic beverage manufacturer in negotiation of international distributorship agreement
Representation of international license agreement for trademarks, and for international sale of trademarks
Representation of employer client in connection with employments and severance agreements
Representation of clients in connection with distributorship and re-seller agreements, consulting and independent contractor agreements, service and management agreements
Representation of financial institutions and officers and directors of financial institutions in connection with federal regulatory enforcement actions
Representation of hospital and other health care providers in connection with various business transactions, including analysis of regulatory issues

Memberships, Community Involvement and Service

Jan served on the Board of Directors of the North San Antonio Chamber of Commerce for six years, serving as Chair of the Business Development Council and also as Chair of the Leadership and Professional Development Council for a total of three years.

She is currently on the Board of Directors of LEAD SA, a 501(c)(3) educational, charitable organization associated with the North Chamber, which she formed and for which she obtained tax exempt status. She previously served as Vice President and then President of the Oakes Club, a local professional women’s organization. She is a member of the San Antonio Women’s Chamber of Commerce and has been active in the San Antonio Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). Jan is currently serving on the Women’s Advisory Board for the South Texas Agency of Mass Mutual.

Jan provides pro bono legal services through the Wills Clinic sponsored monthly by the Bexar County Women’s Bar Association for low-income citizens of our community.

Jan is a graduate of the Leadership Texas program (Class XXIV) sponsored by the Foundation for Women’s Resources, and is a member of the San Antonio Leadership Texas Alumnae chapter. She is also a graduate of the Leadership San Antonio program (class of 1999), co-sponsored by the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Jan is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Bar Foundation, the San Antonio Bar Association, the Bexar County Women’s Bar Association, the American Health Lawyers Association, the Texas Association of Bank Counsel, and the San Antonio Estate Planners Council.

In 2005, Jan was a recipient of a Women’s Leadership Award from the San Antonio Business Journal.

Personal

Jan and her husband have been married over 26 years and have three busy children, 23, 19 and 13 years old. They are active in First Presbyterian Church of San Antonio. Her favorite activity - outside of her family’s many activities and practicing law - is bicycling.