When a Houston, Texas real estate developer filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection amid questionable dealings, the bankruptcy trustee approached Boyd, Powers & Williamson attorneys to ensure that all the company’s assets were properly accounted for.

With special expertise in highly complex fraud and financial investigations, the BPW team – including lead attorney Matt Meyer and attorney Kristy Pesnell Campbell – followed the money through a web of shell entities and fraudulent dealings by developer FM Forrest Inc. and its […]

A truck driver who struck and killed a worker at a Wise County rock-crushing facility has been sentenced to seven years in prison. The sentencing of 30-year-old Jose Alberto Gutierrez Olivas follows a favorable settlement of civil litigation that Boyd Powers Williamson lawyers handled on behalf of the family of the victim.

Mr. Guitierrez-Olivas received the prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of failure to stop and render aid stemming from the August 2021 incident at the Bridgeport […]

Boyd, Powers & Williamson is proud to announce that firm partners Derrick Boyd and Scott Lindsey have earned repeat honors in the 2022 edition of Texas Super Lawyers. 

The Super Lawyers designation confers honors on top-rated lawyers in the state, with just 5 percent of practicing attorneys being named to the list. The Super Lawyers designation follows an extensive, patented and peer-influenced nomination process. The honors are given annually to those who excel in the profession. This is Mr. […]

DECATUR, Tx. – Peer lawyers in Texas and the research staff at Best Lawyers in America have again selected trial lawyer Derrick S. Boyd among the nation’s best for commercial litigation.

Derrick Boyd, Allen Williamson, and Scott Lindsey

Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The patented selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. Lawyers in the top 5% of the state are selected to the list.  Very proud of these attorneys.

Boyd Powers Williamson trial team secures $5M punitive damages, exposes scheme by business partner to operate competing clinics

FORT WORTH, Texas – A jury has awarded a $7.8 million verdict to a North Texas physician and stem-cell treatment innovator after finding that his business partner locked him out of the clinic they jointly owned and siphoned off assets to a competing clinic set up at the same location.

Jurors found that defendant Neil Riordan conspired to lock Dr. Wade McKenna out of his […]