McFarland PLLC

Managing Partner: Charles B. McFarland

Senior Partners: Billy Coe Dyer, Mark L. Merrell, Laura S. Manion, Dan Tobin

Number of partners: 6

Number of other fee-earners: 2

Offices: Austin, Dallas, Houston

Firm Overview

McFarland is a boutique law firm focusing exclusively on the representation of owners of retail, commercial, industrial, institutional, and special-use properties to maximise the compensation paid when the government or public-use entities take private property for public use. The firm has represented property owners across the state of Texas in significant condemnation cases against the State, the Texas Department of Transportation, and various other local governmental and public-use entities. Senior partners Charles McFarland and Billy Coe Dyer are both board certified in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and both achieved this certification by trying condemnation cases.

Main Areas of Practice

• Eminent Domain
• Condemnation Litigation
• Inverse Condemnation
• Real Estate Valuation Litigation

Key Results

• State v. CC Telge Road, LP, 605 S.W.3d 742 (Tex. App.-Hou. [1st Dist.] 2020, pet. denied)
• City of Houston v. Commons at Lake Houston, Ltd., 587 S.W.3d 494 (Tex.App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2019)
• State v. Titan Land Dev. Inc., 468 S.W.3d 705 (Tex.App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 2015)
• FKM P’ship v. Bd. of Regents of the Univ. of Houston Sys., 255 S.W.3d 619 (Tex. 2008)
• PR Investments and Specialty Retailers, Inc. v. State, 251 S.W.3d 472 (Tex. 2008)
• PR Invs. & Specialty Retailers, Inc.v. State, 251 S.W.3d 472 (Tex. 2008)
• State v. Beeson, 232 S.W.3d 265 (Tex.App.—Eastland 2007)
• State v. Reina, 218 S.W.3d 247 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2007)
• Motiva Enters., LLC v. McCrabb, 248 S.W.3d 211 (Tex.App---Houston [1st Dist.] 2007)
• State v. Target Corp., 194 S.W.3d 46 (Tex.App.—Waco 2006)
• State v. Fiesta Mart, Inc., 233 S.W.3d 50 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2007)
• Harris County v. Inter Nos, Ltd., 199 S.W.3d 363 (Tex.App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 2006)
• CenterPoint Energy Houston Elec., L.L.P. v. Old TJC Co., 177 S.W.3d 425 (Tex.App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 2005)
• State v. PR Invs., 180 S.W.3d 654 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2005)
• Bd. of Regents of the Univ. of Houston Sys. v. FKM P’ship, Ltd., 178 S.W.3d 1 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2005)
• State v. PR Invs., 132 S.W.3d 55 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2004)
• State v. Delany, 149 S.W.3d 655 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2004)
• City of Houston v. Van De Mark, 83 S.W.3d 864 (Tex. App.—Texarkana 2002)
• Interstate Northborough P’Ship v. State, 66 S.W.3d 213 (Tex. 2001)
• State v. Interstate Northborough Pshp., 8 S.W.3d 4 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 1999)
• State v. Northborough Ctr., Inc., 987 S.W.2d 187 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 1999)
• Felts v. Harris County, 915 S.W.2d 482 (Tex. 1996)
• Harris County v. Felts, 881 S.W.2d 866 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 1994)
• State v. Enterprise Bank-Houston, 873 S.W.2d 117 (Tex. App.—Waco 1994)

Key Clients

• AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust (BIT)
• Allen Harrison Company
• Ancorian
• Caldwell Companies
• California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS)
• Century Communities, Inc.
• Colony Ridge Land
• Coventry Development Corporation
• Crow Holdings Industrial
• First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc.
• Hines Interests
• J. Alan Kent Development
• KSA Industries, Inc.
• LGI Homes
• Lovett Commercial
• Lovett Industrial
• Mac Haik Enterprises
• Pinto Realty Partners
• Prologis, Inc.
• Realty Income Corporation
• Rice Management Company
• Rise Communities LLC
• SEARCH Homeless Services
• Second Baptist Church
• Spirit Realty
• Sprint Sand and Clay
• Taco Bell of America
• Target Corporation
• Texas General Land Office (GLO)
• Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
• The Kroger Company
• The Signorelli Company
• The Travelers Companies, Inc.
• The Wendy's Company
• U-Haul Holding Company
• Whataburger
• Wisenbaker Builder Services

Contact

Charles McFarland, +1 (713) 325-9700

Offices

201 W. 5th St., Suite 1100

Austin, TX 78701

8111 Preston Rd., Suite 750

Dallas, TX 75225

811 Louisiana St., Suite 2520

Houston, TX 77002