I take great satisfaction in rolling up my sleeves and working alongside sophisticated clients to solve their most intractable business challenges. In so doing, I leverage my real-world experience with evidentiary hearings, trials, and arbitrations in state and federal courts across Texas.
David Leonard takes the lead through every phase of the dispute resolution process, from internal investigations and pre-suit negotiations, to fact and expert discovery, trial, and appeal. He also has deep experience handling evidentiary hearings, including hearings on applications for temporary restraining orders and injunctions.
David’s clients range from high-net-worth individuals to multi-national corporations across many industries, with an emphasis on the oil and gas and real estate industries. David also has substantial experience handling partnership disputes and disputes under non-competition, non-solicitation, and confidentiality agreements. He also has experience representing heavy equipment dealers and car dealerships.
David’s oil and gas practice focuses on disputes under contracts such as joint operating agreements, oil and gas leases, gas gathering and processing agreements, master service agreements, division orders, and vendor agreements.
His real estate practice focuses on representation of landowners (retail, medical, industrial and office) in disputes under contracts such as leases, easement agreements, restrictive covenants, access agreements, option agreements, title policies and broker agreements.
In 2023 and 2024, David was recognized as a “Top 100” Rising Star by Texas Super Lawyers (a Thomson Reuters company). He has maintained the Rising Star designation for ten years.
He is licensed to practice in the state and federal courts of Texas and New Mexico.