Chip N. Searcy
Chip N. Searcy was born in Houston, Texas and raised in the small town of Henderson, Texas. After high school, Chip received his bachelor degree from Southwest Texas State University, where he graduated with honors, and his law degree from Texas Tech University. While in law school at Tech, Chip was awarded a K.K. Leggett Fellowship at the Washington Legal Foundation in Washington, D.C., where he participated in drafting amicus curie briefs filed in federal Courts of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. After his fellowship, Chip authored a legal backgrounder article entitled “High Court Must Stop Judicial Erosion of Property Rights,” published by the Washington Legal Foundation in November, 2000. Chip has been voted by his colleagues in Fort Worth Magazine as a Top Real Estate Attorney in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. Chip is a member of the Tarrant County Bar Association, and the Tarrant County Young Lawyer’s Association. Chip is licensed in federal court in the Northern, Western and Eastern Districts of Texas and in all Texas State Courts. Chip’s practice areas include general civil litigation and transactions in small business and non-profit affairs, corporate matters, partnership agreements and dissolutions, contracts, construction matters, commercial manufacturing, consumer fraud and collections, insurance claims, real estate contracts, closings, sales, leases and liens, condemnation and eminent domain, landlord/tenant, premises defects, land damages, property damages, car wrecks and personal injury or proprietary injury matters.
Bill E. Bowers
Bill E. Bowers is a native of Fort Worth. After graduating high school in 1961, Bill continued with undergraduate study at Texas Christian University. While at TCU, Bill played football for the Horned Frogs on the 1962-1964 teams, and received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 1965. Bill then attended law school at the University of Texas at Austin, where he received his L.L.B. in 1968. After law school Bill returned to Fort Worth to practice law, where he continues in private law practice. Bill has served as President of the Tarrant County Bar Association, and is an active member of the Fort Worth legal community at large. Bill and his wife Helen reside in Fort Worth, and are proud parents of four children and five grandchildren. Admitted to the State Bar of Texas 1968. Graduated from Texas Christian University (B.B.A. 1965); graduate of the University of Texas at Austin Law School (LL.B. 1968); member: Tarrant County District Grievance Committee 1979 - 1982; Vice-President 1980-1981; President-Elect 1981 -1982; President, 1982-1983; Member of American Bar Associates; State Bar of Texas; American Board of Trial Advocates, Fellow: Texas Bar Foundation.
