Sim Israeloff is a senior shareholder with over 25 years of trial experience and is head of the Firm's Commercial Litigation Practice Group. Sim's practice is devoted to commercial and complex business litigation in state and federal courts. Sim represents U.S. and foreign businesses and individuals in litigation involving business transactions, real estate, partnerships, franchises, antitrust, securities, intellectual property, injunctions, and probate matters. Sim is a frequent writer and speaker on business litigation and trial tactics and serves as the Firm's legal counsel.
Sim Israeloff is a senior shareholder with over 25 years of trial experience and is head of the Firm's Commercial Litigation Practice Group. Sim's practice is devoted to commercial and complex business litigation in state and federal courts. Sim represents U.S. and foreign businesses and individuals in litigation involving business transactions, real estate, partnerships, franchises, antitrust, securities, intellectual property, injunctions, and probate matters. Sim is a frequent writer and speaker on business litigation and trial tactics and serves as the Firm's legal counsel.
Contract Disputes
- Partnerships, franchises, co-tenancies
- Business sales, acquisitions, buyouts, dissolutions, successor liability
- Finance, loans, security interests, foreclosures
- Defective performance, warranties, commissions, UCC issues
Business Torts
- Securities, stock fraud, misrepresentation, concealment
- Tortious interference, unfair competition, civil conspiracy
- Alter ego, fiduciary duty, fraudulent transfers
- Preemptive rights, oppression of minority shareholders
- Lender liability, usury
Real Estate Litigation
- Sales, leases, financing, title insurance, property damage, mold
- Investor disputes, mismanagement, self-dealing
- Easements, surveys, boundary disputes
- Condemnation, eminent domain
Intellectual Property Litigation
- Patents, trademarks, copyrights, Lanham Act
- Misappropriation, trade secrets
- Injunctions, accountings, disgorgement, lost profits
Antitrust and Trade Regulation
- Monopolization, restraint of trade, price discrimination
- Sherman Act, Clayton Act, Robinson-Patman Act
- Noncompetition agreements
Probate Litigation
- Will contests
- Suits against executors and trustees
Mr. Israeloff is Board Certified in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and is a Sustaining Life Fellow of the Dallas Bar Foundation. He also serves as Mayor of Fairview, Texas. He is a member of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation, State Bar of Texas Litigation Section, and the Dallas Bar Association. He is a former Barrister in the Patrick E. Higginbotham American Inn of Court. Sim was included in the 2011, 2009 and 2007 editions of the peer-review listing The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of Commercial Litigation. In 2010 he was named to the Lawdragon 3000 Leading Lawyers in America. He is also listed in the Marquis Who's Who in American Law.
Mr. Israeloff received his B.B.A. degree in accounting, with highest honors, from The University of Texas in 1980, where he was a member of Phi Delta Phi and the Beta Alpha Psi accounting honor society. He received his J.D. degree with honors from The University of Texas School of Law in 1983, where he was an Associate Editor of the Texas Law Review. He was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1983 and is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the United States Court of Federal Claims.
Education:
- J.D., with honors, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law, 1983
- B.B.A., with highest honors, The University of Texas, 1980
Admissions:
- State Bar of Texas, 1983
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas
Memberships & Affiliations:
- Member, State Bar of Texas
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Dallas Bar Association
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