Bourland, Wall & Wenzel | Fort Worth

Serving the needs of individuals, corporations, commercial entities, and nonprofits for 35 years

Bourland, Wall & Wenzel, P.C. has been focusing on providing our clients high quality legal representation that is both sensitive to their personal concerns and highly ethical in application since 1983. Handling personal estate planning and litigation, exempt organization support and the needs of businesses from creation and real estate acquisition through various transactions, valuation and eventual sale, we work to develop long term relationships that benefit both our clients and our firm.

We are professionally and personally supportive of, dependent upon, and concerned about each other and those we serve.

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Our Practice

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Our firm regularly assists clients in alternative dispute resolution including arbitration and mediation.

Appellate Law

Because the dispute resolution process does not always end after trial or a final hearing, we are here to represent you through the appeals process. We represent clients in appeals and original mandamus proceedings in Texas state courts and federal courts.

Business Planning

Our firm’s attorneys work with family business owners to develop structures and procedures that help ensure the family business will continue into the next generation in a productive and harmonious manner.

Business Reorganizations and Creditor Rights

Our firm is experienced in restructuring entities through partnership divisions, business recapitalization, subsidiaries, and other reorganizations to separate properties and minimize risks.

Charitable Gift Planning

Our attorneys work with clients as a part of the client’s overall estate or multi-generation wealth migration planning to help leave a charitable legacy with the charity or charities of the client’s choice.

Contract Law

Our firm understands the critical importance of executing comprehensive written agreements for all manner of transactions and relationships.

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Our firm works with the client to develop the most tax efficient and economically feasible equity based plans for compensating its employees.

Employment Law

Our firm understands that not only do clients need swift, responsive legal counsel when employment disputes arise, but they also need guidance in establishing effective policies and procedures to help prevent disputes.

Estate Planning & Probate

Our firm has an extensive practice focused on estate planning and probate, and the attorneys in the estate planning and administration department are involved in income, gift, generation-skipping transfer and estate tax planning for individuals, families and family businesses of both moderate and substantial wealth.

Fiduciary Litigation

In its fiduciary litigation practice, the firm is able to bring together its litigation proficiency with expertise in other practice areas of the firm to assist clients in trial and appellate courts as well as various alternative dispute resolution forums.

General Counsel Services

An ongoing relationship as outside general counsel to closely-held businesses provides the client with access to the legal resources they need while reducing client overhead when employing attorneys.

Health Law

Our health care practice provides counsel and advice to the complex laws and regulations its clients face in health care-related fields.

Intellectual Property Law

We recognize that internal information constitutes a business’s most valuable assets, and work to help prevent or halt unauthorized disclosures and to seek damages where the harm has already occurred.

Litigation

Should the need arise, our firm effectively represents clients in litigation, appeals, and all forms of alternative dispute resolution proceedings to settle disputes.

Mergers & Acquisitions

We strive to assist our clients with complicated state and federal transfer issues and to structure transactions in a manner that achieves their financial and personal goals.

Oil & Gas Law

Our extensive oil and gas experience includes the representation of clients in all aspects of oil and gas law including mineral leases, drilling rights, taxation, and other matters.

Real Estate Law

Our firm has extensive experience in assisting clients with residential and commercial real estate transactions and disputes from purchase through development, leasing, and sale of real property.

Tax-Exempt Organizations

Our attorneys have expertise and experience representing clients across the spectrum of the nonprofit world, and we take great satisfaction in working with them as they seek to make lasting change.

Tax Planning

Our tax attorneys are experienced in federal and state tax planning for all phases in the life cycle of a business, from formation through operations to the exit strategy.

Travel Law

With our firm’s travel industry experience, we are able to analyze and assess your travel company in order to recommend and help implement appropriate planning, structure solid contracts, and minimize your risks.

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Resources

Congratulations to Jay B. Newton for his promotion to shareholder!

Jay B. Newton has been promoted from an Associate Attorney to Shareholder. Mr. Newton is a magna cum laude graduate from Texas Tech University School of Law and obtained his undergraduate degree in Business Finance and master’s degree in Business…Read More

Congratulations to Graigory B. Fancher for his promotion to shareholder!

Graig Fancher has been promoted from Senior Litigation Attorney to Shareholder. Mr. Fancher is a graduate from Texas Tech University School of Law and obtained his undergraduate degree in Speech Communication from West Texas A&M University. His practice primarily focuses…Read More

The Benevolent Barista: The Art of Concocting, Crafting and Refining Donor Advised Funds and Charitable Gift Agreements

When a client comes to your office announcing their desire to make a gift to ABC charity for the building of a new park, the high school’s new stadium, or for the relief efforts after a tragic natural disaster, where do you start on reducing that intent to paper?