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Roberts & Willie, PLLC keeps its Dallas office at 1921 Greenville Avenue, Suite 200, along historic Lower Greenville. The location is convenient for Downtown, Uptown, Lakewood, and M Streets professionals who want an inviting, accessible place to meet counsel.

By Trenton Roberts and Gemma Schmidt. Good law firm life is built from ordinary habits: early questions, visible work, mentorship on live matters, and a team that covers for each other. How that culture reaches clients.

Roberts & Willie, PLLC is a Dallas boutique founded in 2015 with a warm, collaborative culture. Learn how a relaxed yet professional workplace supports responsiveness for clients and a recruiting-friendly environment for attorneys.

By Trenton Roberts and Natalie Voels. How borrowers can negotiate financial covenants: the debt and EBITDA definitions behind the ratio, caps on synergy addbacks, springing tests, and equity cure rights that work.

By Trenton Roberts and Natalie Voels. Lender-side loan documents set a lender's rights and remedies.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act changed key inputs in choice-of-entity planning. Permanent Section 199A, permanent bonus depreciation, expanded QSBS, Section 174A, and a temporary SALT cap all affect how founders and boards should re-run the entity memo.

By Trenton Roberts and Rachel Jones. The MAE clause, the closing conditions, and the ordinary course covenant decide who carries the risk between signing and closing. How to negotiate each, and what Akorn and AB Stable teach.

Representations and warranties (reps and warranties) are statements of fact in a purchase agreement about the business being sold. They allocate risk, support diligence, and often feed indemnification remedies if a statement was inaccurate.

By Trenton Roberts and Julia Ngo. How the next generation of business lawyers can use AI for good in transactional work: verified first pass review, savings passed to clients, more time for judgment, and better training inside the ethics rules.

By Trenton Roberts, Andrew Brown and Spencer Kendrick. Texas corporate law has changed in a short window.

By Trenton Roberts and Carson McGurk. As AI takes on more contract drafting, the attorney becomes more central to negotiation. A forward-looking view grounded in ABA Formal Opinion 512 and Texas Ethics Opinion 705.

A typical middle-market sale to a private equity buyer moves from early discussions and NDA, to a letter of intent (LOI) or term sheet, through diligence and definitive agreements, and then to closing. Timelines vary, but the sequence of workstreams is often similar.

By Trenton Roberts and Andrew Brown. A structured legal audit in the first 90 days of a fractional general counsel engagement finds the problems that are still cheap to fix. The work plan, month by month.

License scope, service levels, data terms, and auto-renewals decide most SaaS disputes. Here is what to negotiate on each, and how Texas taxes SaaS as a data processing service with a 20 percent exemption.

Texas non-competes are governed by Sections 15.50 through 15.52 of the Business and Commerce Code. How the ancillary requirement, reformation, sale-of-business covenants, the 2025 health care changes, and the FTC rule fit together.

In M&A processes, NDAs set the ground rules for sharing confidential information. Terms that often draw negotiation attention include employee non-solicit, standstill restrictions, residual knowledge (residuals) clauses, and the confidentiality term length.

By Trenton Roberts, Andrew Brown and Spencer Kendrick. How Texas series LLCs work in practice.

By Trenton Roberts and Isabella Matuk. A merger clause will not stop a fraud claim in Texas. How Italian Cowboy, Lufkin, and Forest Oil shape anti-reliance drafting, and how the fraud carve-out and R&W policy fit with it.

Private equity and private credit teams often need many non-disclosure agreements reviewed or drafted on short timelines. High-volume NDA programs emphasize process design, playbooks, turnaround discipline, and consistent drafting, not one-off negotiation from a blank page each ti

By Trenton Roberts and Autumn Hartman. A trademark license without real quality control can cost the owner the mark. What the Lanham Act requires, what the naked licensing cases teach, and how Section 1253 treats royalty payments.