Leslie M. Luttrell is a shareholder and a member of the firm's Bankruptcy and Commercial Litigation Section. Ms. Luttrell received her Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, in 1981 and her Juris Doctor in 1983 from St. Mary’s University. Ms. Luttrell was licensed to practice law in the State of Texas in May 1984. Upon graduation, Ms. Luttrell served as the Senior Law Clerk to the Honorable Bert W. Thompson, Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Texas from 1983 through 1985. Ms. Luttrell entered private practice in 1985, first in San Antonio and thereafter in El Paso, Texas. Ms. Luttrell returned to San Antonio in 1998, where she has
continued to practice in the areas of bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, banking, commercial litigation, corporate and real estate law. Ms. Luttrell has written and spoken extensively over the span of her career for the State Bar of Texas CLE on the topics of bankruptcy, creditors’ rights and collection. With over 27 years of experience, Ms. Luttrell has achieved an “AV” peer rating by Martindale-Hubbell. Ms. Luttrell is licensed to practice law in the United States District Courts and Bankruptcy Courts in the Western, Northern, Southern and Eastern districts, the United States Court of Appeals – Fifth Circuit and the United States Tax Court. Ms. Luttrell is a member of the State Bar College and a life member of the Texas Bar Foundation.
Oscar H. Villarreal received his Bachelor of Business Administration with Honors from the University of Texas at Austin in 1977 and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Texas School of Law in 1979. Mr. Villarreal was licensed to practice law in the State of Texas in May 1980 and as a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Texas in 1982. From 1980 to 1984, Mr. Villarreal served as a hearings examiner for the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. He relocated to San Antonio in 1984 where he began a general private practice focusing on civil litigation, corporate and transactional matters. For over twenty-five years, Mr. Villarreal has practiced in state and federal courts
throughout south central Texas concentrating in litigationof disputes involving serious personal injuries, violation of employment laws, municipal liability, and personal and commercial torts. Mr. Villarreal is board certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Personal Injury Trial Law. Mr. Villarreal is licensed to practice in each of the four federal district courts in the State of Texas, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the United States Tax Court and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Villarreal is a veteran having served in the United States Air Force from 1972-1976 and serves/or has served as a director of several civic non-profit organizations. He enjoys cycling, exercising and running and is fluent in Spanish.
Dawn L. Carmody has been licensed to practice law by the Supreme Court of Texas since November 1988. She graduated from Texas A & M University receiving a B. A., in Political Science, and from Texas Tech University School of Law receiving a Juris Doctorate. After graduating from law school Ms. Carmody’s practice was focused on defensive representation of municipalities, governmental entities, public officials and public employees in cases involving State law personal injury and tort litigation, Federal civil rights and employment litigation and litigation involving law enforcement officers. From 1990 to 2000, Ms. Carmody was a planning committee member, frequent author and presenter of articles relevant to municipal tort litigation, law enforcement litigation and civil rights litigation as panel participant in the Suing and Defending Governmental Entities program sponsored by the State Bar of Texas. Ms. Carmody participated as speaker at the Suing and Defending program in 1991, 1995, 1996, 1998
and was chair person of the Program in 1999. She is the attorney of record on a number of reported opinions issued by various Texas Courts of Appeals, the Texas Supreme Court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2001, Ms. Carmody was of counsel to a small boutique bankruptcy law firm where she commenced practicing creditor based bankruptcy, commercial litigation and collection litigation. For the last decade, her practice has segued to include representation of small businesses, partnerships and individuals in employment, commercial and corporate litigation, general real estate transactions, business entity formation, governance, compliance and dissolution, employer-based employment law, probate, and probate litigation. She is licensed to practice in all courts in the State of Texas, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Western Districts of Texas, and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the San Antonio Bar Association.