Lawrence Fischman
Member
Lawrence Fischman
Member
lfischman@gpmz-law.com | |
972-419-8318 | |
972-419-8329 |
About
Mr. Fischman is a Martindale-Hubbell AV-rated attorney. His practice is in litigation at both state and federal levels. He devotes significant time in the trial courts to summary judgment practice and to issues arising from expert testimony. His works are also involved in real estate-related, general business litigation, and bankruptcy.
He has been admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court; and U.S. District Court, Eastern, Western and Southern Districts of Texas.
Representative experience
- White v. Weiser, 412 U.S. 783 (1973)
- Price v. Hardin, 425 F.2d 1137 (CA 5, 1970)
- Craig v. Beto, 458 F.2d 1131 (CA 5, 1971)
- Steinberg v. Cinema ‘N’ Drafthouse Systems, Inc., 28F.3d 23 (5th Cir., 1994)
- Crowell & Bender, 138 F.3d 1031 (5th Cir., 1998)
- Littlefield v. Forney Ind. School Dist., 268 F. 3d 275 (5th Cir., 2001)
- Coastal Agricultural Supply, Inc. v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., 759 F.3d 498 (5th Cir. 2014)
- Campbell Harrison & Dagley, LL.P. v. PBL Multi-Strategy Fund, L.P., 744 Fed.Appx. 192 (5th Cir. 2018), cert den., sub nom Hill v. PBL Multi-Strategy Fund, L.P., 139 S.Ct. 1272, 2019 U.S. LEXIS 1541 (2019)
- Perkins v. Crittenden, 462 S.W.2d 565 (Tex. 1970)
- Inwood Nat’l Bank v. 1st Nat’l Bank of Bryan, 485 S.W.2d 842 (Tex. Civ. App. – Waco 1972, n.w.h.)
- Arrow Chemical v. Pugh, 490 S.W.2d 628 (Civ. App., Dal., 1972)
- Salgo v. Matthews, 497 S.W.2d 620 (Civ. App. Dal., 1973)
- Irwin v. Whirley, 538 S.W.2d 150 (Tex. Civ. App. – Waco 1976, n.w.h.)
- Zeisler v. Zeisler, 553 S.W.2d 927 (Tex. Civ. App. – Dal, 1977, error dism’d)
- Vordenbaum v. Rubin, 611 S.W.2d 463 (Civ. App. Dal. 1980)
- Slusser v. Union Bankers Ins. Co., 2002 Tex. App. Lexis 1292 (Tex. App – Eastland 2002)
- Martin v PlainsCapital Bank, 402 S.W.3d 805 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2013) rev’d on other grounds PlainsCapital Bank v. Martin, 459 S.W.3d 550 (Tex. 2015)
- Munsell v. Bias Ward Land Holdings, LLC, 2019 Tex. App. LEXIS 1802 (Tex. App. – Amarillo 2019, no pet.)
- Spurgeon v. Empire Petroleum Partners, LLC, 2019 Tex. App. LEXIS 5104 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2019, no pet.)
Speeches and publications
- Author: “Article 3810: an Unanswered Question,” Tex. Bar Jour. (1981).
- Speaker and Panelist: “Current Issues in Commercial Real Estate Leases,” National Business Institute, 1996.