About
I had been concerned within the making plans, trial and enchantment of complicated enterprise litigation topics for the beyond 30 years.
I even have represented a huge style of customers in complex commercial enterprise litigation in kingdom and federal courts in the course of Texas and the United States. My exercise has worried trials and appeals in such numerous litigation regions as corporate reorganization and financial ruin, securities and commercial enterprise fraud, white collar-commercial enterprise criminal cases, anti-agree with, real estate, production, oil and fuel, coverage disputes, civil rights, First Amendment issues, protection of civil and criminal contempt subjects, and defense of individuals in NCAA Infractions Committee hearings. I preserve an AV rating from the Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory.
After running for one among Houston s oldest downtown law places of work for 2 years right away after regulation college, I become one of the founding partners in 1981 of the Houston enterprise litigation boutique organization that bore my call and have become prominent over the next 20 years in complex enterprise litigation subjects in Houston and all through Texas.
In 2000, I installed a solo exercise in my domestic, The Woodlands, Texas (30 miles north of downtown Houston), wherein I concentrate on personalized representation of clients in complex enterprise litigation subjects and usage of generation programs in such representation.
I was born born and raised in Iowa City, Iowa and moved to Houston in 1972, where I labored my way thru college and regulation college. I received a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in 1975 from the University of Houston and a Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1979 from the University of Houston Law Center.
I have been a lecturer at the University of Houston Law Center and the University of Texas Law School, and an writer and lecturer for the State Bar of Texas Advanced Bankruptcy Seminar and the Houston Bar Association in numerous regions of business litigation and company reorganization regulation, in addition to with regards to legal studies and weblogs.
Since February 2004, I even have also maintained the famous Houston s Clear Thinkers blog, which addresses issues of interest for the Houston criminal, business, scientific and educational communities. I frequently lecture on plenty of enterprise litigation topics for personal businesses and citizen agencies.
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Location
Legal Issues
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
- Bankruptcy
- Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, Debt Relief
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Counseling, Trials and Appeals in Complex Business Litigation
- General Civil
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Retaines and Rates
Rates and fees primarily based on nature of representation. See internet site for further data.
Certificates
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
Accepted Jurisdictions





Experience
- Owner
Law Office of Tom Kirkendall
2000 - Managing Partner
Kirkendall & Isgur, LLP
1992 - Partner
Maddox, Perrin & Kirkendall
1981 - Associate
Hirsch & Westheimer
1979
Educations

Graduation year: 1977

Graduation year: 1973