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 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

713-325-9700

8111 Preston Rd., Suite 750

Dallas, TX 75225

811 Louisiana St., Suite 2520

Houston, TX 77002