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Brown Fox is built to address the issues, challenges, and opportunities confronting businesses, executive leadership, and entrepreneurs over a wide range of practice areas, industries and legal circumstances.

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The Brown Fox Difference

Our Mission & Values

Our attorneys specialize in addressing the critical legal opportunities and challenges businesses, executives, and entrepreneurs face so our clients are protected and poised for ongoing success.

Character Matters® is our foundational maxim; our core values its roots.  We are committed to aggressively and creatively representing our clients, while staying true to our guiding principles.

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Our Team

When talent and character come together, great things happen. Our attorneys have well-rounded backgrounds and come from some of the top law schools in the country. More importantly, all Brown Fox attorneys and staff members must hold true to our core values of integrity, servant leadership, excellence, and impact. We approach every client, witness, and opposing counsel with respect, and every case with uncompromising focus, hard work, and integrity.

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Our Service in the Community

Brown Fox is committed to leveraging our legal skills and resources to serve our community. Our attorneys have volunteered time in West Dallas and South Dallas, trained lawyers and judges in Asia, Africa, and the U.S., currently serve on several charitable boards and fundraising committees, and provide pro bono representation and counseling to several local and international charities and ministries.

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Texas Federal Judge Blocks FTC Non-Compete Ban
August 21, 2024 by

Yesterday Federal District Judge Ada Brown, of the Northern District of Texas, blocked the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) Noncompete Rule that would have imposed a near complete ban of employee non-compete agreements nationwide as of September 4, 2024. The Order…Read More


Seven Brown Fox Attorneys Named 2025 Best Lawyers
August 15, 2024 by

Brown Fox, a Chambers-ranked, Tier 1 Best Law Firm two years in a row, is proud to announce that Best Lawyers of America has named Russ Brown, Jenny DePonte, Brian Robison, Cort Thomas, Stephen Key, Samuel Fubara, and Paulette Miniter as 2025…Read More


Brian Robison Named 2025 Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” for Fourth Time
August 15, 2024 by

Brown Fox, a Chambers-ranked, Tier 1 Best Law Firm, is pleased to share that Partner Brian Robison again earned the rare distinction of 2025 Lawyer of the Year for Litigation – Antitrust in Dallas-Fort Worth. Only one attorney in each eligible practice area…Read More


Why Miscellaneous Contract Provisions Matter
August 14, 2024 by

By the time you reach the end of a contract, you typically find yourself encountering a series of miscellaneous contract provisions that are all too often given limited and insufficient attention. Don’t be too quick to gloss over them! While…Read More


Brown Fox Recruits Jeff Ward to Serve as Firm’s First Chief Operating Officer
August 5, 2024 by

Brown Fox is pleased to announce the addition of Jeff Ward as the firm’s first Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Ward brings diverse legal experience, operational leadership, and strategic vision that uniquely positions him to lead operations at a dynamic and…Read More


Shannon Latham Awarded Character Matters Honor
July 23, 2024 by

Each quarter Brown Fox awards a staff member with the Character Matters Award. The firm’s partners select recipients who exemplify one or more of the firm’s core values (integrity, servant leadership, excellence, and impact). The partners selected Paralegal, Shannon Latham, as the…Read More


Buy/Sell Agreements Supported by Insurance Policies – ALERT
July 22, 2024 by

On June 6, 2024, in a unanimous decision, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling in Connelly v. United States, 602 U.S. (2024) which is potentially impactful to business owners who have entered into equity redemption buy/sell agreements supported…Read More


John Freeman and Stephen Key Celebrate Five Years with Brown Fox
July 22, 2024 by

We are pleased to celebrate John Freeman’s and Stephen Key’s five-year anniversaries with the firm. Brown Fox celebrates all five-year honorees with personalized bobbleheads and all ten-year honorees with customized baseball bats. John Freeman is an AV-rated attorney and Senior…Read More


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