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.
Karen Smith is an experienced litigator who regularly represents individuals and corporations in the areas of complex commercial disputes, construction litigation, and employment law matters. Ms. Smith has handled cases throughout the state of Texas and taken numerous cases through to trial in state and federal court. Her clients include internationally-based manufacturers, commercial and residential real estate developers, financial institutions, transportation companies, construction industry contractors, certified public accountants, and oil and gas companies, as well as their officers and directors.
