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James Holmes works with The Schmidt Firm, LLP in Dallas. He enjoys a diverse practice of oil and gas cases, business cases, and catastrophic injury and death cases. He has significant trial and appellate experience. He gladly shares litigation experience, briefs, research and other work product with business plaintiff’s attorneys, royalty-owner attorneys and with any royalty owner or non-working mineral interest owner.

James was born, raised and educated in Texas. Before practicing law in Dallas, he earned his Bachelor of Science from Trinity University in San Antonio and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he served as an Editor on the Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif. Following law school, James worked as a judicial clerk for the Texas Supreme Court.

Currently, James represents the largest collection of royalty owners, bank-operated royalty/mineral trusts, and surface-estate owners in Texas by way of sizeable West Texas and East New Mexico litigation.

James has been ranked by his peers for many years as a “Texas Super Lawyer,” as shown in the Texas Monthly annual survey.

James contributes substantial time representing lower-income individuals pro bono and working on Dallas Bar Association committees. He is an active member of several professional associations, including AAJ, TTLA and DTLA. He is chair of the AAJ’s Oil and Gas Litigation Section, which he formed.

He and his wife of 17 years live in East Dallas with their young children.