Dallas Business Litigation Attorney
Roquemore Skierski PLLC defends Dallas businesses with sharp counsel and tough courtroom advocacy, protecting your bottom line from formation to complex disputes.
The Dallas business litigation attorneys at Roquemore Skierski PLLC represent privately held companies, owner-operators, and commercial entities in business and commercial disputes across Dallas, Collin, Denton, and Tarrant Counties and in the Texas state and federal courts, and the Texas Business Court, when applicable. When a lawsuit is filed, a demand letter is received, or a commercial dispute is heading toward court, what a business owner does in the first days often shapes the outcome more than anything that happens at trial.
Our firm handles disputes from the pre-suit demand through trial and the enforcement of the judgment that follows, and we build every matter around the business result the client needs. Each matter is staffed with a supervising partner, a lead attorney running day-to-day strategy, and a dedicated paralegal, so the client keeps one consistent point of contact from the first call through resolution.
Dallas Business and Commercial Litigation Matters We Handle
Business disputes take many forms across the Dallas market, and they rarely arrive one claim at a time. Our Dallas business litigation attorneys represent both plaintiffs and defendants across the full range of commercial disputes that affect privately held companies:
- Breach of contract and contract disputes: failure to pay, non-performance, and disputed terms
- Breach of fiduciary duty: partners, directors, officers, and managing members
- Shareholder disputes, including derivative actions and forced buyouts
- Partnership disputes and business divorce
- LLC disputes
- Fraud litigation: common law fraud, statutory fraud, and fraudulent misrepresentation
- DTPA violations
- Business disparagement
- Unfair competition and trade secret misappropriation under the Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act, Chapter 134A of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code
- Tortious interference with business relationships and contracts
- Non-compete litigation under Sections 15.50 through 15.52 of the Texas Business and Commerce Code
- Commercial real estate disputes: lease defaults, landlord-tenant conflicts, and title disputes
- Construction litigation: defective work, payment disputes, and mechanic’s liens
- Temporary restraining orders and injunctive relief
- Arbitration of commercial disputes
- International business litigation
- Local counsel for out-of-state and out-of-market firms
- Demand letter response and pre-suit dispute resolution
Whether your company is initiating or defending an arbitration or lawsuit, or responding to or sending a demand letter, our attorneys build a strategy around your business objectives and goals.
How Our Dallas Business Litigation Lawyers Approach a Case
Business litigation is expensive, and the most consequential decisions in a commercial dispute are usually made before a lawsuit is ever filed. We begin each matter by clarifying four things: the client’s business objectives, the litigation risk, the timing constraints, and the budget the company can commit. From there, we align the pleadings, discovery, and motion practice to those priorities rather than running every matter the same way.
Litigation is not the right tool for every business problem. Where an early resolution serves the client’s objectives, we pursue it through negotiation, mediation, or arbitration, and we keep that path open even after suit is filed. Where a partner is draining accounts or a competitor is using misappropriated trade secrets, we move quickly for a temporary restraining order and temporary injunction under Texas Rules of Civil Procedure 680 through 689, because in those matters the early order often decides the case.
When to Bring in Counsel on a Business Dispute
The earlier the better, because a business dispute is almost always cheaper to resolve before it becomes a formal lawsuit. Our Dallas business litigation attorneys are most useful early. The right time to call is when a demand letter or notice of claim arrives; when the company has been served with a lawsuit or an arbitration demand; when a partner, co-owner, or employee has taken action that is harming the business; when a contract has been breached and informal efforts to fix it have failed; when the company needs to move first to protect assets, relationships, or trade secrets; or when a court order may be the only way to stop harm that is already underway.
A larger commercial dispute may fall within the jurisdiction of the Texas Business Court, the specialized court the Legislature created in 2024 for high-value business cases, where the amount in controversy meets that court’s threshold.
Why Dallas Businesses Choose Roquemore Skierski PLLC for Business Litigation
Roquemore Skierski PLLC was founded by Dallas trial attorneys Kelvin Roquemore and Doug Skierski, and its litigation team brings decades of Texas courtroom practice to commercial disputes on both sides of the docket. Our firm appears in the district courts of Dallas, Collin, Denton, and Tarrant Counties and in the Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas.
The representation is built for privately held companies and owner-operators across construction and commercial real estate, professional services, technology, restaurants and franchises, retail, manufacturing, and freight and transportation, in matters that run from a single-contract dispute to multi-party litigation with international reach. Matters inside our practice areas stay with us; where a case needs expertise we do not hold in house, business valuation being the common example, we engage and manage qualified experts inside the litigation.
Our team is trial-ready, and it prepares every matter with the same rigor whether it resolves at the negotiating table or in front of a jury.
How our team resolves business disputes, from start to finish.
We review the governing documents, build a factual timeline, gather key evidence, confirm deadlines, and align the legal approach with the client's business objectives.
We send a strategic demand letter identifying the dispute, proposing solutions, and setting a deadline. When assets or trade secrets are at risk, we seek immediate court relief to prevent further harm.
We pursue negotiation or mediation where productive, while continuing to preserve evidence and develop the case so leverage remains intact if settlement efforts do not succeed.
If a resolution is not reached, we file suit, use focused motions and discovery to narrow the dispute, present the case at trial, and enforce any favorable judgment.
Related Practice Areas
Frequently asked questions.
A business litigation lawyer evaluates the claims and defenses a company holds, manages demand letters and pre-suit negotiation, conducts discovery, presents the case in court or arbitration, and negotiates resolution when resolution serves the client better than a verdict. The work runs both directions; the same skills apply whether the company is prosecuting a claim or defending one.
Attorney's fees are recoverable in some circumstances. On a claim for an oral or written contract, a prevailing claimant may recover reasonable fees under Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code ยง 38.001(b)(8), and certain statutes carry their own fee provisions. Fee exposure runs both directions, and the analysis is case-specific.
Most business disputes in this market proceed in the district courts of Dallas County, or in the district courts of Collin, Denton, and Tarrant Counties when venue lies there. Matters within federal jurisdiction proceed in Texas federal courts, including the Northern District of Texas. Many commercial contracts route disputes to arbitration instead of the courthouse.
No. Many resolve through negotiation, mediation, or arbitration before a jury is ever seated. Preparation for trial is what shapes those resolutions; the strength of a negotiating position usually reflects the strength of the case that would otherwise be tried.