The Northern District of Texas, from our Dallas office.

The district sits in seven divisions: Dallas, Fort Worth, Abilene, Amarillo, Lubbock, San Angelo and Wichita Falls. The Dallas Division takes in Dallas, Ellis, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Navarro and Rockwall Counties; the Fort Worth Division includes Tarrant, Parker and Wise. The local rules require a certificate of interested persons with the first filing, and the judges enforce them.

In Mayne Pharma Commercial v. Medisol Plus, No. 3:23-cv-01589-K, we defended a $5.2 million federal contract action over invoiced pharmaceutical product; it was resolved on confidential terms. In the bankruptcy court we carried the Chapter 11 reorganization and sale of Twisted Root Burger Co. and Truck Yard, location by location.

See relief from the automatic stay, consensual Chapter 11 dismissal and bankruptcy. Federal court in Texas · Northern District · Eastern District · Western District · Southern District · bankruptcy courts.

Northern District of Texas. Local Rule 7.2(f): a brief prepared with generative AI must disclose it on its first page, and a brief without the disclosure certifies that none was used. Judge Boyle in Dallas forbids AI-generated text in any attorney’s filing, allows AI only to identify errors if that use is disclosed and a human attorney makes the edit, and requires a certificate on every filing that a human attorney wrote it, or the filing may be stricken — a summary her chambers confirmed to us as accurate and current on 5 November 2026. Judge Kacsmaryk in Amarillo requires a certificate with the notice of appearance.

Fifth Circuit. No AI rule, by choice: it proposed a certificate in 2023 and dropped it, warning that using AI is no excuse for an otherwise sanctionable filing.

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.