Practice Areas

When a dispute or crisis surfaces in today’s business world, companies and individuals face risk on a variety of fronts: the threat of civil lawsuits, the prospect of government investigations and regulatory enforcement, media and public scrutiny, and sometimes the possibility of criminal investigation or prosecution.

Former U.S. Department of Justice prosecutors on the Davis & Santos team now represent individual and corporate defendants in investigations, grand jury proceedings, and at trial involving financial crimes, fraud, health care matters, computer crimes, and political corruption.

Board-certified counsel and certified mediator offers expertise in probate, estate planning, family wealth transfers, entity formation and administration, trust formation and administration (including special needs trust), guardianships, estate and gift tax planning and related IRS filings, as well as mediation services in these areas.

Banking counsel provide comprehensive representation for all legal issues that financial institutions may face from regulatory compliance, officer & director liability, and employee embezzlement to government investigations, collections, and customer disputes.

Bilingual attorneys with deep family and business connections in Mexico can seamlessly navigate the two legal systems to find creative and efficient solutions for a variety of issues ranging from business disputes to international family law.

Using decades of experience at big firms, as in-house counsel, in federal clerkships at the U.S. Courts of Appeals, in appellate clerkships in the Texas Courts of Appeal, and at the U.S. Department of Justice, Davis & Santos attorneys find efficient solutions for a variety of issues in complex litigation in federal and state court.