In 2013, HHDU’s Real Estate Section has successfully represented development clients on multiple major real estate transactions, involving the acquisition, financing and development of multi-family housing as well as commercial and retail properties throughout Texas. These transactions involved … [Read more...]

Since November 2012, HHDU’s Business Section has successfully represented the owners of two (2) local DFW industrial gas businesses in the sale of their companies to a Fortune 500 purchaser.  The HHDU corporate mergers and acquisition team, including shareholders William D. Hayward and Robert W. Van … [Read more...]

HHDU’s Litigation Section continues its historical success in representing clients in major lawsuits.  In the past twenty-four (24) months HHDU shareholders James T. Drakeley and R. Scott Seifert achieved favorable jury verdicts for their client in complex commercial litigation involving such … [Read more...]

HHDU congratulates Peter Tierney and Camille Cooper Scroggins on receiving this recognition from Best Lawyers®, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. The Best Lawyers Business Edition list for Texas was recently published in the Dallas Morning News. A listing … [Read more...]

Our newest shareholder, Ken Patterson, has secured great success for his physician clients in three different cases since he joined the firm earlier this year.  The defense Ken Patterson developed on behalf of an orthopedic surgeon, obstetrician/gynecologist and ophthalmology cornea specialist was … [Read more...]

On June 10, 2013, HHDU attorney, Austin C. Evans, successfully obtained a jury verdict in the 348th District Court, Tarrant County, Texas.  The lawsuit involved a breach of a commercial lease between a landlord and tenant.  The jury returned a verdict in favor of the landlord and awarded actual … [Read more...]

Shareholder, Dick Wiles, successfully defended a pulmonologist in a wrongful death medical malpractice case tried for two (2) weeks in the 68th District Court in Dallas County.  The jury returned its defense verdict on May 24, 2013. … [Read more...]

On June 6, 2013, in Gardner v. Children’s Medical Center Of Dallas, the Dallas Court of Appeals affirmed the defense verdict obtained by HHDU shareholder Ken Patterson in the 101st Judicial Court, Dallas County, Texas and upheld the statutory protections available to emergency care providers … [Read more...]

In 2013 the HHDU Business Section has successfully represented clients on the acquisition of fourteen (14) hotels. HHDU shareholder James S. Patterson and associate Victoria M. Yarkho worked for months with the clients on the negotiation, documentation and successful close of these multi – million … [Read more...]

Craig Harris, a shareholder at HHDU, was recently quoted in a news article about a case involving long-term client Collin Street Bakery and allegations of embezzlement by a former employee.  An excerpt from the Corsicana Daily Sun on July 26, 2013 reads: "...attention to detail was credited with … [Read more...]