Attorneys - DuBois Bryant & Campbell

Patrick Carlson

Patrick focuses his practice on real estate transactions, real estate development, governmental economic development programs, utility development and financing, local government regulation, and representing special districts that provide for the financing, construction, and operation of water, sewer, drainage, road, and park and recreational infrastructure for real estate development projects in Texas.

His real estate practice includes acquisitions, dispositions, development, financing, leasing, and construction. Patrick’s economic development program practice includes negotiating economic development agreements with the State of Texas, counties, cities, and municipal management districts to facilitate development. His utility development and district practice involves representing developers and landowners in connection with the creation of special districts, such as municipal utility districts (MUDs) and water control and improvement districts (WCIDs), through the Texas Legislature and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). This practice includes advising and assisting regarding district organization, confirmation and bond elections, public infrastructure financing with tax-exempt bonds, and relationships with overlapping state and local government entities. This practice also involves negotiation of consent and development agreements with municipalities, water and wastewater service agreements, and utility, road, and recreational amenity development and financing agreements.

Patrick also serves as general counsel to special districts in Texas. In this capacity, he represents special districts in all aspects of operations, including conducting public meetings, regulatory and statutory compliance, annexations, competitive bidding, conflicts of interest, construction, cost-sharing and capacity allocation agreements, contract negotiations and preparation, elections, facility conveyance documentation, financing, license and easement agreements, out-of-district service agreements, adopting district budgets and setting district tax rates, adopting district utility rates and fees, and adopting and enforcing district rules and regulations. Patrick has experience with the applicable provisions of the Texas Water Code, the Texas Election Code, the Texas Open Meetings Act, the Texas Public Information Act, and the regulations of the TCEQ.

Will Palmer

Will focuses his practice on complex and general commercial litigation. Prior to joining DuBois, Bryant & Campbell, Will practiced general commercial litigation at a boutique Austin firm, with an emphasis on employment, contract, insurance, and personal injury matters. Will has extensive experience litigating all types of employment-related claims, including discrimination, contract claims, claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and claims for theft of trade secrets and other confidential information. He also advises clients on employment-related matters. He has successfully defended his cases on appeal before Texas Courts of Appeal, and he has argued in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Will started his legal career practicing commercial litigation in California, where he defended multiple class actions in federal and state court, including two multi-district antitrust class actions against electronic component manufacturers, and several contract-based class actions against airlines. He was also involved in litigation related to real estate, intellectual property, products liability, and contract disputes, including serving as second chair in a two-week jury trial on abreach of contract claim. Will earned his JD from Columbia Law School where he was the Notes Editor for the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. While in law school, he served as a judicial intern to Hon. Laura Taylor Swain in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and was a legal intern in the Financial Fraud and Consumer Protection Division of the New York State Department of Financial Services.

Prior to his career in law, Will worked as a Technical Account Manager for Google’s DoubleClick ad platform, where he implemented attribution studies, analyzed client metrics and managed user data collection. Will is an Austin native. He is also admitted to practice law in California.

McKenzie Speich

McKenzie focuses her practice on a variety of transactional real estate, land use, and entitlement matters, including acquisitions/dispositions, leasing, zoning, entitlement, development permitting, and other administrative law issues. She has experience with both commercial and residential real estate matters, for which she has drafted and negotiated transaction documents and advised clients on related real estate issues. McKenzie received her undergraduate degree at Texas A&M and her law degree from Baylor University.

Robert Montgomery

Robert represents entrepreneurs, emerging growth and public companies, venture capital firms and private investors in a wide variety of start-up matters, venture capital and private equity financings, mergers and acquisitions, debt financing transactions and corporate governance matters.

Prior to joining DBC, Robert was a partner at a leading technology-focused boutique law firm in Austin, Texas following his experience as legal counsel at Dell Technologies supporting mergers and acquisitions and the venture investment portfolio of Dell Technologies Capital. Prior to this, Robert was a corporate attorney in the Austin, Texas office of Baker Botts L.L.P.

Robert received his law degree from The University of Texas School of Law, where he graduated with Honors and was a member of Texas Law Review. He received a B.A. with Distinction in Psychology and Government from Cornell University and studied Experimental Psychology at Pembroke College, Oxford.

Erin Johnson

Erin focuses her practice on a variety of corporate and transactional matters including entity formation, corporate governance, commercial leasing, mergers and acquisitions, key agreements with customers and vendors, employment matters, and corporate restructuring.

While in law school, Erin was the Executive Director of the Texas Transactional Skill Competition hosted by the Texas Business Law Society. She served as a principal consultant for the Texas Venture Labs and advised pre and post revenue startups. She interned at the Travis County Probate Court #1 and clerked at the Office of the Attorney General in the Charitable Trusts and Consumer Protection Division.

Prior to pursuing a career in law, Erin worked as general manager for a private real estate development firm. Erin is an Austin native and an active member of the National Charity League and the Center for Women in Law.

Tori Harrison

Tori Harrison is a litigation attorney with experience in complex business litigation, mediation, and arbitration. She handles a broad range of civil litigation matters across various industries, including healthcare, media and entertainment, construction, technology, and others. Her experience includes contract and business disputes, healthcare litigation, trade secret misappropriation, construction disputes, labor and employment litigation and arbitration, and other general civil litigation matters.
Previously, Ms. Harrison worked at Holland & Knight LLP in Austin, TX and prior to pursuing a career in law, she worked in sports broadcasting and production at Pac-12 Networks. Tori Harrison is an Austin native and graduated from St. Andrew’s Episcopal School.

Andrew Vickers

Andrew’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and civil appeals. His experience includes bankruptcy, real estate development, and fiduciary litigation, as well as partnership and contract disputes, intercreditor and creditor-debtor relations, and labor and employment matters. He has participated in successful appeals throughout the state of Texas and in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Previously, Andrew served as a judicial intern for Judges O-Gon Kwon, Howard Morrison, Melville Baird and Flavia Lattanzi of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and was an associate and partner at the law firms of Hohmann, Taube & Summers LLP and Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP.
Andrew is an Austin native and graduate of Austin High School and the University of Texas.

Kevin Brown

Kevin Brown is a trial lawyer with significant experience in complex business litigation, mediation and arbitration. His experience includes contract and real estate disputes, healthcare litigation, false advertising, defamation, right of publicity, copyright and trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation, construction disputes, employment litigation and general business torts.

Mr. Brown has more than twenty-five years of experience representing individuals and companies in the media, entertainment, healthcare, retail and other industries.

Previously, Mr. Brown was a partner with Holland & Knight LLP in Austin, Texas. He also practiced with Orrick and Pryor Cashman in New York City.

Neal Meinzer

For over 25 years, Neal has helped business clients large and small, as well as individuals, resolve a wide range of complex problems; always with a singular focus of efficiently wrangling the client’s obstacles so they can get back to what they do best – earning a living. Neal focuses his practice on two basic areas of the law – commercial litigation and general construction matters.
On the commercial litigation side, Neal zealously represents clients embroiled in a broad range of commercial disputes arising in a myriad of commercial settings, including development deals gone bad, contract breaches, fiduciary duty disputes, “business divorces” in closely held companies and partnerships, restrictive covenant battles, property owners suffering under overreaching municipalities or HOA boards… The list goes on.
In the construction and development arenas, Neal helps owners, contractors, sub-contractors, and design professionals in just about every aspect of construction and development projects, including breach of contract disputes, project delay and termination issues, M&M lien perfection issues, contract preparation and review, job site injury and death cases, and, of course, litigation and arbitration of all manner of disputes arising in construction and land development transactions.

Melissa Carr

Melissa is an experienced trial lawyer, member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) and a certified mediator. During her twenty-year career, she has gained extensive trial experience as managing in-house counsel for an insurance company, head litigation attorney for a plaintiffs’ firm, and partner at a mid-size firm before joining DBC. Melissa strives to educate and empower her clients to make the best decisions before, during and after the litigation process. She handles all kinds of civil litigation matters including commercial litigation, business and partnership disputes, construction defects, employment discrimination, premises liability, insurance coverage matters, contract disputes, real estate disputes, and personal injury.