Janet L. King, a founding partner of the firm, is an AV rated lawyer with more than 41 years of experience, focusing her practice on corporate and business transactions. She represents businesses and cooperatives, including business owners, Boards of Directors, non-profit organizations and women-owned and minority-owned businesses in a wide variety of matters, including acquisitions, mergers, conversions, formation, entity governance, shareholder agreements, asset preservation planning, management succession planning and employment.
Eileen E. Sommer, a founding partner of the firm, is an AV rated lawyer with more than 38 years of legal experience, focuses her practice on commercial transactions of various types, including general business, commercial real estate and finance. She represents companies and other entities (profit, non-profit, public or private), individual owners of businesses, professionals, and financial institutions, in various matters which include the acquisition, sale, development, and leasing of commercial real estate, the preparation and negotiation of contracts pertaining to the day-to-day operations of a business, and the negotiation and documentation of financing transactions. She is experienced in rendering legal opinions in business transactions and often serves as local counsel in such matters. She is board certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Commercial Real Estate.
Richard H. Sommerhas over 39 years of legal experience, focusing his practice on civil litigation matters. His clients are builders/contractors, land developers, real estate brokers, landlords, corporate and business owners, and owners, buyers and sellers of real estate generally. He has litigated breach-of-contract actions, shareholder oppression actions, construction contract disputes, mechanics and materialmen’s liens and claims, public works bonding claims and lawsuits, eminent domain and inverse condemnation suits, non-competition disputes, breach of fiduciary duties, partition suits, contractor liability, Deceptive Trade Practices Act, trespass, negligence, nuisance, fraud and embezzlement actions, flood-plain, environmental and toxic tort, tax suits, foreclosure, execution sales, deficiency claims, lien priority suits, trespass-to-try title actions, boundary-line suits, utility and other easements, theft and violation of trade secrets, zoning and platting laws and regulations, probate, intestacy, will contests, guardianship, anti-trust, oil and gas and homeowners association matters.
Kelli Borbón is a seasoned litigator with more than 19 years of experience. She has extensive litigation experience in employment, consumer, products liability, general commercial, toxic tort and personal injury, as well as arbitrations and administrative proceedings. In addition to her general litigation practice, she also focuses on advising clients in litigation avoidance, regulatory compliance, and general risk management strategies, policies, and procedures. She assists clients in the drafting and periodic review of policies and procedures, form documents and agreements generally. She also advises and assists clients with eviction and landlord-tenant issues, collection matters, injunctions, and temporary restraining orders and open records requests.
Attorneys
Alexander D. Good is primarily a litigator and has almost a decade of experience in both State and Federal courts throughout Texas. His practice includes representation of self-insured entities, first- and third-party insurance defense, products liability, general commercial, and personal injury litigation. Mr. Good is also experienced in providing coverage opinions and conducting training seminars for companies as well as presenting at continuing education seminars. He assists clients in developing pre-litigation strategies to avoid litigation as well all matters arising out of litigation through the court systems, arbitration, and other alternative dispute resolution processes.