Dallas business disputes, litigated to a judgment.

Dallas County civil cases are heard in the district courts and county courts at law downtown, and Collin County cases in McKinney. Appeals from both counties go to the Fifth Court of Appeals in Dallas; a case in the Business Court’s Dallas division goes to the Fifteenth. A Dallas County business files bankruptcy in the Northern District of Texas; a Collin County business, in the Eastern District.

We carried the Chapter 11 reorganization and sale of Twisted Root Burger Co. and Truck Yard in the Northern District of Texas, location by location, with the landlord and lease matters throughout.

See Dallas County, Collin County, contract disputes and partner and owner disputes.

From the Dallas office we also take cases in Tarrant, Denton and Rockwall Counties, and in Fort Worth, Arlington, Grand Prairie, Irving, Plano, Richardson, Garland, Mesquite, McKinney, Frisco, Carrollton and Lewisville.

Texas state courts. No statewide rule on AI is in force. In June 2026 the Supreme Court of Texas preliminarily approved a new Rule 13 under which signing a filing certifies that the signer verified it, including that its citations, quotations and holdings are not fabricated; no final order had issued. The Business Court’s Local Rule 10(c) permits AI but makes the filer independently responsible for every filing. The courts of appeals have no AI rules but sanction fabricated authority under their inherent power, as the Dallas court did in 2025, and Ethics Opinion 705 advises verifying every output, protecting confidences and supervising its use.

Checked against each court’s own rules and orders on 5 November 2026 for John Henry’s talk “AI in Modern Litigation” at the Eastern District of Texas Bankruptcy Bench Bar Conference. Rules change; the full reference, with every order cited, is on the AI in litigation page.