Mr. Stodghill is a litigation partner in the firm’s Dallas office. His practice emphasizes all aspects of complex litigation. Mr. Stodghill served as Team Counsel for the Dallas Mavericks from 2000 to 2002. He was a Founding Partner at Lynn, Stodghill, Melsheimer & Tillotson (which the Texas Monthly described in a 1998 article “Top Guns” as the “Navy Seals” of litigation), working with the firm from 1993 to 2000. He also served as an associate with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld from 1987 to 1993 and as a Legislative Assistant for Congressman Ralph M. Hall in 1985.
Mr. Stodghill possesses a broad range of experience in complex commercial litigation, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in contractual disputes, breach of fiduciary duty cases, securities litigation and arbitration, shareholder derivative actions and shareholder oppression cases, TRO and injunctive relief proceedings, insurance coverage disputes, class actions, employment litigation, catastrophic injury and medical malpractice cases, intellectual property/trade secret theft cases, lawyer/accountant malpractice cases and post-trial/appellate practice. In addition to being chief litigation counsel to Mark Cuban and The Dallas Mavericks, Mr. Stodghill has also represented numerous prominent companies, including Yahoo!, Bank One, Zurich Financial, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Alcatel, Guaranty Federal Bank, Trammell Crow, Texaco, Xerox, Sabre, Eljer Industries, Qwest, Hunt Asset Management, Callaway Golf, Dean Foods, Fossil, broadcast.com, Richmont, U.S. Risk, Generation Partners, and Driscoll Children’s Hospital in significant litigation matters. In addition to Mark Cuban, Mr. Stodghill has previously represented interests of 12 billionaires and other high-net worth individuals, including Todd Wagner, Tom Hicks, Lamar Hunt, Trammell Crow, Phil Romano, Tim Headington, and multiple members of the Al Rajhi family. Mr. Stodghill has also represented Carrie Prejean (former Miss California and first runner up Miss USA) and her husband, Kyle Boller (quarterback Baltimore Ravens, Oakland Raiders), as well as Vince Young (quarterback, Tennessee Titans, Philadelphia Eagles).
Mr. Stodghill received his B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Texas in 1983, and his J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law in 1987.
