About

• The Leonard Law Firm, PLLC, Founding Member
- January 2022 – present
• Jackson Walker LLP, Partner
- August 2008 – January 2022
• Boudreaux, Leonard, Hammond & Curcio, Partner
- January 1981 – August 2008
• Childs Fortenbach Beck Guyton, Associate
- August 1978 – January 1981

• Texas Tech University School of Law, Juris Doctorate, 1978
- Associate Editor, Texas Tech Law Review
• Texas Tech University, Bachelor of Business Administration, with honors, 1975

• Texas, 1978
• United States Supreme Court
• Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
• District of Columbia Court of Appeals
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
• United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
• United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
• United States District Court for the Western District of Texas

• Advanced Arbitration Certification (Domestic and International), University of Houston Law Center, 2012

• State Bar of Texas
- Litigation Section
• College of the State Bar of Texas, Life Member
• Texas Bar Foundation, Sustaining Life Fellow
• American Bar Association
- Litigation Section
- Antitrust Section
• Bar Association of the Fifth Circuit
• American Arbitration Association
• Insurance Information Council
• Houston Bar Association

• AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
• "Go-To" Litigator in Houston and the Gulf Coast, American Lawyer
• "Go-To" Litigator in Houston and the Gulf Coast, Association of Corporate Counsel

• Saint Francis Medical Center v. Azar, United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit (2018) – Medicare reimbursement

• Saint Francis Medical Center v. Price, United States District Court, District of Columbia (2017) – Medicare reimbursement

• Lawrence E. Jaffe Pension Plan v. Household International, Inc, United States District Court N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division (2017) – The largest securities fraud ever filed in the Northern District of Illinois

• Transunion Intelligence LLC v. Search America, Inc., United States District Court D. Minnesota (2014) – Patent infringement

• Tejas Casing, Ltd. v. IPSCO Tubulars, Inc., United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit (2014) – Breach of contract

• Rodessa Operating Co., Inc. v. Leverich Liquidation Co., L.L.C., Court of Appeals of Texas, Beaumont (2014) – Personal injury

• Domino’s Pizza, L.L.C. v. Umanzor, Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.) (2012) – Personal injury

• Amacker v. Renaissance Asset Management LLC, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit (2011) – Broker/dealer dispute

• Datatreasury Corp. v. Wells Fargo & Co., United States District Court. ED. Texas Marshall Division (2007) – Patent infringement

• Gulf Rice Arkansas, LLC v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Houston Division (2005) – Breach of contract

• Baldwin v. Household Intern., Inc., Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.) (2001)

• Summit Properties Inc. v. Hoechst Celanese Corp., United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit (2000) – Products liability

• Urrutia v. Decker, Supreme Court of Texas (1999)

• Amarco Petroleum, Inc. v. Texas Pacific Indem. Co., Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.) (1994)

• Hyundai Motor Co. v. Chandler, Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi-Edinburg (1994) – Products liability

• Texas Pacific Indem. Co. v. Atlantic Richfield Co., Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.) (1993) – Insurance coverage

• First Interstate Bank of Texas, N.A. v. S.B.F.I., Inc., Court of Appeals of Texas, Dallas (1992) – Article 9 UCC security interest

• Wolverine Exploration Co. v. Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America Inc., Court of Appeals of Oklahoma, Division No. 1 (1991) – Take or pay gas contract

• Crocker Nat. Bank v. Ideco Div. of Dresser Industries, Inc., United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit (1989) – Article 9 UCC security interest

• In re Richmond Tank Car Co., United States Bankruptcy Court. S.D Texas, Houston Division (1988) – Breach of contract

• Pierce v. Winograd, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit (1985) – Breach of contract

• Exxon Corp. v. Atlantic Richfield Co., Supreme Court of Texas (1984) – Breach of gas processing agreement

• Schlipf v. Exxon Corp., Supreme Court of Texas (1982)

• Gabriel v. Snell, Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.) (1981) – Dispute over the sale of real property

• Represented OCTG manufacturer in numerous matters involving death, injury, and property damage filed in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Mississippi.

• Represented automobile manufacturers in numerous product liability matters.

• Represented major energy company in gas processing facility construction dispute where general contractor was terminated before completion.

• Represented manufacturers of oil country tubular goods in casing failures.

• Prosecuted and defended patent infringement actions ranging from wellhead protection specialty tools to business method patents for financial institutions.

• Represented operator in multiple personal injury and wrongful death actions that arose from a line rupture.

• Enforcement of Article 9 multimillion-dollar security interest in drilling equipment against competing interest of equipment supplier and debtor.

• Defended major consumer lender against state and private actions alleging predatory lending and deceptive trade practices, defeating class certification, and obtaining take nothing judgments or dismissals in each instance.

• Defended Fortune 100 financial institution in connection with a tax-free spinoff where former subsidiary sued for undercapitalization.

• Defended the Chief Operating Officer of a Fortune 100 company in an SEC investigation and related private litigation where the company had previously consented to a judgment that included a 10(b)(5) fraud finding relating to content of the Form 10(k).

• Part of the negotiating team that concluded a comprehensive settlement between a mortgage lender and the 50 state Attorneys General.

• Defended a national bank and its subsidiary in a trade practice action brought by a state Attorney General, obtaining a ruling that the lawsuit was preempted by federal law.

• Prosecuted builder’s risk coverage claim for major engineering and construction company where existing pier that was to be used as a construction platform and then destroyed was prematurely destroyed by fire.

• Represented broker/dealer in multiple securities fraud lawsuits arising out of private offerings and disallowed tax benefits.

• Defended a Fortune 100 company in a series of product liability lawsuits seeking to impose alter ego liability and/or RICO liability relating to the operations of a former manufacturing subsidiary.

• “Coming Out Strong from the Economic Downturn,” Energy Litigation Journal, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Spring 2010).

• “Fifth Circuit Survey on Intellectual Property,” 9 Texas Tech Law Review 4.

Tim has lectured on “Strategies and Tactics in Arbitration” and “Selecting and Preparing Witnesses for Depositions and Trials” both for the Legal Department of HSBC Annual Meeting and for Penske Trucking, among others.

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Gulf Coast Chapter, Cast for the Cure Steering Committee (12 years)