Real estate and land use disputes are inevitable in dynamic, growing regions of Texas and beyond. These issues can require delicate handling by a trusted real estate litigation attorney, protecting your interests while helping you maintain relationships with government agencies, neighbors, and business partners.
The firm’s attorneys have many years of experience helping clients navigate these issues. Our experience spans a wide range of property and land use disputes for both commercial and residential real estate litigation. Our clients run the gamut in the real estate space, including developers, real estate investment companies, commercial landlords and tenants, owners and occupiers of land, and homeowners.
We have won victories for real estate clients in the courtroom and arbitration. And we excel at direct negotiation with counterparties, government agencies, and anyone else who threatens or challenges the rights of our clients. Clients frequently involve us when disputes first emerge so we can help them chart a course that often avoids litigation. In every case, we develop strategies tailored to each client’s dispute, focusing on results and cost-effectiveness.
Our Real Estate Litigation Experience Includes:
- Entitlement, land use restrictions and noise ordinance litigation
- Partition suits
- Constitutional issues regarding land use
- Restrictive covenant controversies
- Adverse possession cases
- Foreclosure-related disputes
- Fraud litigation over construction or sale of real estate
- Landlord/tenant litigation
- Condemnation litigation and objections to condemnation authority
- Land contamination lawsuits related to oil and gas exploration and production, underground storage tank leaks and contamination from industrial chemicals
- Oil Pollution Act enforcement actions against the U.S. Department of Justice
- Representation of landowners and real estate developers across a broad spectrum of land use issues including:
- wetland impact disputes and administrative enforcement actions
- endangered species litigation and administrative enforcement actions
- municipal code controversies
- Water rights disputes
- Easement litigation