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Sandy McCorquodale
A no-nonsense technician; a grinder’s mentality. Mr. McCorquodale handles trials and appeals. Sandy has been bringing his unique combination of experience, skill, humor, and attitude to clients here in Texas for more than 35 years with a core belief that a straightforward, honest analysis and execution will always trump over tough talk and empty promises.
He represents clients throughout Texas in lawsuits involving personal injuries, wrongful death, traumatic brain injuries, financial disputes, insurance coverage, lawyers’ professional liability, accounting malpractice, contract claims, employment claims, hurricane claims, workers’ compensation claims, explosion claims, fraud and misrepresentation, fiduciary liability under ERISA, securities fraud, directors’ and officers’ liability, claims under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, franchisor- franchisee litigation and other matters. He represents clients in individual lawsuits, mass action lawsuits and class action lawsuits. He handles lawsuits in state and federal courts across the State of Texas and before the Division of Workers’ Compensation.
★ All Texas state courts
★ United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas
★ United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
★ Supreme Court of the United States
★ Rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell 2008 – 2021
★ Texas Super Lawyers 2011 – 2015
★ Best’s Directory of Recommended Insurance Attorneys 2013 – 2020
➢ University of Houston College of Law, J.D., 1982
➢ University of Texas at Dallas, B.G.S., 1980
➢ Schiller International University, Strasbourg, France
➢ California Institute of Technology
Articles Editor, Houston Law Review
➢ State Bar of Texas
➢ Past Chair, Native American Law Section
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A no-nonsense technician; a grinder’s mentality. Mr. McCorquodale handles trials and appeals. Sandy has been bringing his unique combination of experience, skill, humor, and attitude to clients here in Texas for more than 35 years with a core belief that a straightforward, honest analysis and execution will always trump over tough talk and empty promises.
He represents clients throughout Texas in lawsuits involving personal injuries, wrongful death, traumatic brain injuries, financial disputes, insurance coverage, lawyers’ professional liability, accounting malpractice, contract claims, employment claims, hurricane claims, workers’ compensation claims, explosion claims, fraud and misrepresentation, fiduciary liability under ERISA, securities fraud, directors’ and officers’ liability, claims under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, franchisor- franchisee litigation and other matters. He represents clients in individual lawsuits, mass action lawsuits and class action lawsuits. He handles lawsuits in state and federal courts across the State of Texas and before the Division of Workers’ Compensation.
Angela Morales
A no-nonsense technician; a grinder’s mentality. Mr. McCorquodale handles trials and appeals. Sandy has been bringing his unique combination of experience, skill, humor, and attitude to clients here in Texas for more than 35 years with a core belief that a straightforward, honest analysis and execution will always trump over tough talk and empty promises.
He represents clients throughout Texas in lawsuits involving personal injuries, wrongful death, traumatic brain injuries, financial disputes, insurance coverage, lawyers’ professional liability, accounting malpractice, contract claims, employment claims, hurricane claims, workers’ compensation claims, explosion claims, fraud and misrepresentation, fiduciary liability under ERISA, securities fraud, directors’ and officers’ liability, claims under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, franchisor- franchisee litigation and other matters. He represents clients in individual lawsuits, mass action lawsuits and class action lawsuits. He handles lawsuits in state and federal courts across the State of Texas and before the Division of Workers’ Compensation.
★ All Texas state courts
➢ University of Houston College of Law, J.D., 2021
○ Activities: Houston Business and Tax Law Journal
➢ The University of Texas at Austin, Bachelor of Arts in Government, Minor in Sociology, 2014
○ Certificate: Interdisciplinary Certificate in Social Inequality, Health, and Public Policy
○ Honors: Dean’s List – ampla cum laude (Spring 2013) and cum laude ampla et magna (Fall 2014)
○ Activities: Intellectual Entrepreneurship Pre-Graduate Program, Project SEED, Student Leaders Pursuing Law
Skills and Honors
➢ CALI Award for Legal Research & Writing II 2019
➢ Writing Skills Certificate of Completion by Harvard Business School (ManageMentor) 2016
➢ Finance Essentials Certificate of Completion by Harvard Business School (ManageMentor) 2016
➢ Attorney and Business Services Training Certificate of Completion by LegalZoom 2015
➢ Intellectual Property Training Certificate of Completion by LegalZoom 2015
➢ Certificate of Congratulations by the Austin City Council 2013
➢ Commemorative Resolution H.R. No. 2545 by TX House of Representatives 2013
Paul D. Schoonover
Upon graduation from law school, Paul joined the firm of Vial, Hamilton, Koch & Knox, LLP, a mid-sized Dallas law firm with over 125 lawyers at its zenith. Paul served on the firm’s management committee and acted as the firm’s general counsel as he continued his practice. When that firm dissolved after 49 years of existence, Paul continued to practice in a smaller firm with lawyers who worked with him at Vial, Hamilton.
Areas of Practice
Paul has represented a variety of clients, both entities and individuals, in a wide variety of industries and legal fields—both litigation and transactional.
Paul has a broad business and insurance litigation practice involving commercial disputes of all types, including contractual, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust and securities, and both insurance coverage and defense. As insurance defense counsel, Paul has defended lawyers, accountants, and other professionals in professional-negligence and related actions. As insurance coverage and defense-monitoring counsel, he has counseled insurers on complex coverage questions, and assisted in coordinating defenses, in connection with the trial and settlement of major claims such as legal malpractice claims brought against lawyers and financial institutions’ directors and officers by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Paul’s business transactional experience complements his business and insurance litigation practice enabling him to bring to all his litigation engagements a business perspective that often is not found in those specializing in litigation.
Paul’s practice has included corporate transactions (including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, asset-purchase transactions), securities, commercial lending (representing institutional lenders and borrowers), healthcare and sports and entertainment law. He represented the management shareholders of a major manufacturer of roofing materials in their leveraged buyout of the venture-capital shareholders. He continued to represent the company as principal outside counsel. He then represented the shareholders when they sold to a multi-national in a multi-million-dollar transaction. Paul represented the sole shareholders of a major manufacturer of truck axles and suspension systems when they sold their shares to in another multi-million-dollar transaction.
Paul has represented professional athletes, owners of sports franchises and local media personalities. He has extensive experience negotiating employment contracts for both employers and employees.
★ Dallas Bar Association (member and past Chairman of the Sports Law Committee)
★ State Bar of Texas
★ Former member of the Sports Lawyers Association.
★ Former Chairperson of the Professional Liability Committee of the Texas Bar’s Insurance Law Section
★ Certified Contract Advisor, National Football League Players Association (1983-2002).
★ Adjunct Professor, Sports Law, Southern Methodist University School of Law (1993-2018).
★ Adjunct Lecturer, Ethics in Sports, Master of Science in Sport Management, joint program of Cox School of Business and Simmons School of Education ( 2014-2018).
★ Selected as a “Texas Super Lawyer” in commercial litigation by the publishers of Law & Politics Magazine and Texas Monthly.
★ Selected for last more than 15 years as one of the best lawyers in America (commercial litigation and sports and entertainment) by the publishers of THE BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA.
★ All state courts in Texas.
★ United States Supreme Court
★ United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits
★ United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas
➢ Southern Methodist University, Juris Doctor, 1972
➢ Editor in Chief, Southwestern Law Journal (now SMU Law Review)
➢ Texas Tech University, Bachelor of Arts, with honors, 1969