Seymour Roberts
Partner

(214) 840-5349
sroberts@neliganlaw.com

Seymour is an Associate, with an AV rating, in the Firm's Reorganization/Corporate Finance practice group. He also has attained the designation of Advocate with the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. His concentration is in the areas of corporate reorganizations and workouts for debtors, creditors, and trustees. He is admitted to practice in Texas, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the United States District Court for all Districts in Texas.

Seymour has extensive experience representing the interests of debtors, creditors, and committees in large and complex reorganizations.

Seymour has written numerous professional articles, which include the following:

• Preserving Claims for. Postconfirmation Litigation, 2007 Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, pages 243-265;
• The Wild West is Not in Texas: Recent Order Curbs Abusive Chapter 5 Avoidable Transfer Litigation, American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, November 2007, page 40 (co-author);
• Hedge Fund Secrecy vs. Bankruptcy Code Disclosure Requirements, Executive Legal Advisor, September/October 2007, pages 14-15 (co-author);
• Hedge Fund Secrecy vs. Bankruptcy Code Disclosure Requirements, Texas Lawyer, May 21, 2007, page 25 (co-author);
• Bankruptcy Fraud and Related Issues, 2006 Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, pages 345-383;
• Alter-Ego Claims in Bankruptcy, 2005 Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, pages 439-503;
• The Standing of a Trustee and How it is Impacted by the Wagoner . Rule, the Adverse Interest Exception and the Sole Actor Rule, 2004 Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, pages 241-267;
• The Standing of Derivative Standing, 2003 Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, pages 141-185;
• The Super Duper Priority Administrative Expense: What It Is, Where It Comes From, What It Does And How You Get One, 2002 Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, pages 263-283;
• An Update on the Applicability of Arbitration Clauses in Bankruptcy Cases, 20002001 Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, pages 693-710;
• Ethics, Expenses and Paraprofessionals, State Bar of Texas Legal Assistants Division, Advanced Bankruptcy Seminar for Legal Assistants/Other Legal Professionals (November 11, 1995);
• Lifting the Automatic Stay to Permit a Pending Lawsuit Before Another Court to Proceed to Judgment, American Bar Association's General Practice Section Committee Update (Bankruptcy), Issue No. 4 (1994);
• Slow Death by Teleconference: Representing Official Committees, The Sixth Annual Oklahoma Bar Association Advanced Bankruptcy Seminar (December 1991) (co-authored with Henry W. Simon, Jr.)
• Ethics, Expenses and Paraprofessionals, National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees Annual Conference (September 1s989) (co-authored with J.K. Skillern).

A native of New York City, Seymour graduated magna cum laude from Duke University, in 1981, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. He received his Juris Doctorate degree from the Emory University School of Law, in May of 1984, and his LL.M. from King's College, University of London, in November of 1985.

He also has judicial experience, as a Municipal Court Judge, Pro Tem, for the City of Fort Worth, for seven years. Seymour is a certified mediator, family mediator and victim - offender mediator, and was a finalist two years in a row, for the Mediator of the Year Award for Dispute Resolution Services of Tarrant County. He is also a graduate of Leadership Fort Worth.

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