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Biography:
Leonard has a wide range of experience in
representing governmental entities, from serving
as an assistant district attorney to being
outside lead counsel as city attorney for the
Cities of Wallis, Magnolia, Splendora, and
recently as interim city attorney for
Huntsville, Texas. His criminal and civil
litigation trial experience allows him to give
practical and timely advice to governmental
entities and private clients in civil matters,
including business litigation, contracts, breach
of contracts, collections, elections, and
economic development. He has successfully
defended governmental clients in breach of
contract cases concerning economic development
and inverse condemnation claims and is able to
provide creative solutions to client concerns.
He has authored and presented papers on
landlord/tenants, evictions, economic
development, and city council meetings and
currently instructs business students on ethics
and business law as an adjunct professor.
Areas of Practice: State and
Local Government; Economic Development; Business
Litigation; Landlord / Tenant.
Bar Admissions:
Texas, 1991
U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas,
1994
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas,
2003
U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas,
2003
U.S. District Court Western District of Texas,
2003
Education:
South Texas College of Law, Houston, Texas,
1990, J.D.
Honors: Dean's Honor List
Honors: Who's Who Among American Law Students,
9th Edition
Texas State University, MBA – 1985; BA – 1982
Papers/Classes/Seminars:
Adjunct Professor, Business Law, Ethics,
Management, LeTourneau University, 1999 -
Present
Adjunct Professor, Business Law, Ethics,
Belhaven College, 2006 -
Present
Adjunct Professor, Business Entities, Formation,
Management, Art Institute 2009
Co-author and Presenter: "City Meetings and he
First Amendment" - Texas City Attorney
Association Semi-Annual Meeting, South Padre
Island, Texas 2006;
Author & Presenter, “Economic Development
Corporation Dissolution” – TCAA Semi-Annual
Meeting in South Padre Island, Texas, June 2004;
Author & Presenter, “Protecting Your Economic
Development Corporation from Litigation” –
Accelerated Board Training Seminar for Economic
Development Corporations and other Board Members
in Bellville and New Caney, Texas, 2004;
Author & Presenter, "Commercial Landlord's
Liens", 2003 - Commercial and Residential
Evictions Seminar - Sterling Education Services,
Houston, Texas, May 21, 2003
Author & Presenter, "Reclaiming Abandoned
Property", 2003 - Commercial and Residential
Evictions Seminar - Sterling Education Services,
Houston, Texas, May 21, 2003
Author & Presenter, "EDC's - Do's, Don'ts and
Traps for the Unwary", 2003 - Enhancing our
Economic Development Potential Seminar in
Austin, Texas, January 31, 2003
Instructor, Research and Writing, Criminal Law,
Probate, Procedure, Center for Advanced Legal
Studies (Paralegal Certification), 1994
Professional Associations and
Memberships:
Member, State Bar of Texas
Member, Texas Municipal League Texas City
Attorneys Association;
Member, East Montgomery County Chamber of
Commerce
Member, East Montgomery County Rotary
Fraternities/Sororities: Delta
Theta Phi
Birth Information: May 13,
1960, Pasadena, Texas |
