Practice Description

Mr. York is board certified in business bankruptcy law and his practice involves all aspects of chapter 7, 11, and 13 bankruptcy and clients including bankruptcy trustees, debtors, secured creditors, landlords, purchasers of assets, and unsecured creditors.

Representative Experience

Assisted joint interest owners in recovering millions of dollars in payments from bankrupt operators in oil and gas bankruptcy cases;

Assisted lenders in protecting liens and recovering payments or property in Chapter 11, Chapter 7 and consumer bankruptcy cases;

Counsel to debtors in possession or trustee in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of debtors in various industries, including real estate, health care, retail, and food services, technology, and printing;

Counsel to lenders and dealers in Chapter 13 bankruptcy cases of individuals and related litigation involving defense of foreclosure, and claims under RESPA, the FDCPA, and the TILA;

Counsel to bankruptcy trustees in bankruptcy cases and related adversary proceedings resulting in the collection of millions of dollars of estate funds or property through preference actions, fraudulent transfer claims, and related bankruptcy litigation.

Selected Publications, Seminars and Cases

Co-Author – Securing and Protecting Joint Production in Trying Times, American Bar Association/ Section of Litigation/Energy Litigation Committee/Vol. 9 No. 4 Summer 2010

Mullican v. Moser (In re Mullican), No. 4:08-cv-428, 2009 WL 2409026 (E.D. Tex. Aug. 4, 2009)

Moser v. Toyota Motor Credit Corp. (In re Davis), 2009 WL 1033194 (Bankr. E.D. Tex. Mar 24, 2009)

LTTS Charter School, Inc. v. C2 Const., Inc., 288 S.W. 3d 31 (Tex. App. – Dallas Feb 2, 2009)

Moser v. Mullican (In re Mullican), 2008 WL 5191196 (Bankr. E.D. Tex. Sep 30, 2008)

Brock Independent School Dist. v. Briones, 2008 WL 704174 (Tex. App. – Fort Worth Mar 13, 2008)

Countryman v. Eisner (In re Eisner), No. 05-44474, 2007 WL 2479654 (Bankr. E.D. Tex. Aug. 28, 2007)

Practice Description

Mr. Winslett handles complex insurance litigation, professional liability defense (including lawyers, engineers, architects and insurance agents), products liability defense, toxic torts, catastrophic injury and wrongful death, construction/surety cases and first party property claims.

Representative Experience

Representation primarily on defense side, but also represented plaintiff-insurers in complex commercial and insurance litigation.

Chair of the firm’s Professional Liability Practice and Insurance Practice Groups.

Faculty member of numerous NITA-sponsored trial advocacy programs.

Handled virtually every type of insurance based litigation in courts throughout the United States.

Awards & Honors

“Texas Super Lawyers” (Texas Monthly magazine, 2004-2013)

“Texas Top-Rated Lawyers” (Dallas Morning News & The Wallstreet Journal, 2013)

“Top 100 Texas Lawyers” (Texas Monthly magazine, 2006)

AV ® PREEMINENT Martindale-Hubbell rating

Selected Publications, Seminars and Cases

Frequent lecturer in seminars sponsored by State Bar of Texas including “The Ultimate Insurance Seminar.”

Hanson v. Greystar Development & Const., LP, 317 S.W.3d 850 (Tex. App. — Fort Worth 2010, pet. denied)

Lennar v. Great American et al, 2005 WL 1324833 (Houston [14 Dist] 2005)

Insurance Bad Faith: The Insurer’s Prospective.

Roberts v. Healy, 991 S.W.2d 873 (Tex. App. Houston [14th Dist.] 1999)

Universal Life Ins. Co. v. Giles, 950 S.W.2d 48 (Tex. 1997)

U.S. Fire v. Williams, 955 S.W.2d 267 (Tex. 1997)

Stephen Ferguson v. Mt. Hawley Insurance Co., Civil Action No. 2:03-CV-381 (Eastern District of Texas – Marshall Division) (2004)

Bayou Bend Homes v. Scottsdale Insurance Co., 2006 WL 2037564

TIG Ins. Co. v. North America Van Lines, 170 S.W.3d 264 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2005, no pet.)

RLI Ins. Co. v. Maxxon Southwest, Inc, 265 F. Supp. 727 (N.D. Tex. 2003)

Pierre v. Newman, Davenport & Epstein, 2006 WL 1522613 (Tex. App. – Dallas)

Mt. Hawley Ins. Co. v. Wright Materials, Inc., 2005 WL 2805565 (N.D. Tex. 2005)

West American Ins. Co. v. RLI Ins. Co., 698 F.3d 1069 (8th Cir. 2012)

Scottsdale Ins. Co. v. Mt. Hawly Ins. Co., 2011 WL 9169946 (5th Cir. 2012)

Practice Description

Represents clients in litigation involving special enforcement actions by the IRS

Represents clients before the IRS in administrative hearings and tax litigation in Bankruptcy Court, the United States Tax Court, and Federal District Court

Practice Description

Former Senior Trial Attorney for Tax Division, Department of Justice (12 years)

Selected Publications, Seminars and Cases

In re Daniel O. Tomlin, Jr.,2002-1 U.S.T.C. para. 50,349 (Bankr. N.D.Tex. 2002)

Central de Gas de Chihuahua v. United States, 790 F.Supp 1302 (W.D.Tex. 1992)

In re Guyana Development Corp., 189 Bankr. 393 (Bankr.S.D.Tex. 1995)

Awards & Honors

AV ® PREEMINENT Martindale-Hubbell rating

Practice Description

Mr. Sudbury’s practice involves representation of regional and national clients in financial institution litigation involving residential mortgage loans, including loan repurchase, wrongful foreclosure, debt collection and lien priority matters. He also regularly represents clients in construction litigation, health care litigation and insurance disputes.

Representative Experience

Represented national financial institutions in various litigation matters, including loan repurchase related issues.

Represented national health care providers in various litigation matters, including service contract and employment related issues.

Represented regional financial institution in various litigation matters, including insurance disputes and employment related issues.

Represented insurers and insureds in various insurance coverage disputes.

Selected Publications, Seminars and Cases

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. v. Classic Home Financial, Inc., 548 Fed.Appx. 205 (5th Cir. 2013)

Home Loan Corp. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 312 S.W. 3d 199 (Tex. App. – Houston [14th Dist.] 2010, no pet.)

Red Rock Properties 2005, Ltd. v. Chase Home Finance, LLC, No. 14-08-00352-CV, 2009 WL 1795037 (Tex. App. – Houston [14th Dist.] June 25, 2009, no pet.)

Cuauhtli v. Chase Home Finance LLC, 308 Fed. App. 772 (5th Cir. 2009), cert denied 129 S. Ct. 2447 (2009)

Mitchell v. Chase Home Finance, LLC, No. 3:06-CV-2009-K, 2008 WL 623395 (N.D. Tex. March 4, 2008)

Schuhart v. Chase Home Finance, LLC, No. C-05-385, 2006 WL 1897263 (S.D. Tex. July 10, 2006)