Bio

Tom Fulkerson is the founding partner of the firm. His trial, arbitration and appellate practice is concentrated in disputes arising in the oil and gas, contract, intellectual property and entertainment law fields. He has been chosen in the 2003-2017 Texas Monthly Super Lawyers^{^®} (top 5% of practitioners based on peer review), a Thomson Reuters service.

Tom maintains a diverse litigation practice that encompasses oil and gas technology, royalty, joint venture and joint interest disputes, civil fraud, contractual conflicts, partnership disputes, bankruptcy fraud and other areas. In his entertainment-related practice, Tom has represented both artists and institutional clients, including Destiny’s Child, Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams and Sony Music Entertainment Inc. In his commercial trial practice, he has represented Exxon Mobil Corporation, Huddleston & Co., Duke Energy, EOG Resources, Inc., the Celotex Corporation, Gyrodata Inc., JMB Properties Company and numerous estates in bankruptcy.

Tom has lectured and written on a variety of legal topics relating to elements of his practice, including bankruptcy litigation, parent/subsidiary corporate liability law and both procedural and tactical aspects of the trial practice. He has presented continuing legal education speeches at conferences and seminars sponsored by the University of Texas, the University of Houston Law Center, the Harris County district judges, The Center for American and International Law and the Houston Bar Association. He has served on the board and been president of St. Catherine’s Montessori School, was a YMCA soccer and baseball coach and a den leader with Pack 130 of the Sam Houston Area Counsel of the Boy Scouts of America.

Tom was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 18, 1958. He grew up in central Kentucky where he led LaRue County High School to a state debate championship and the first perfect record in the history of the tournament. He obtained a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University in 1980, where he and his partner won the National Debate Tournament. Between 1978 and 1980, Tom won or was in the finals or semi-finals of 16 nationally-ranked tournaments and one of the top speakers at numerous competitions.

Tom received his J.D. cum laude in 1983 from Baylor Law School, where he was case notes and comments editor of the Baylor Law Review and winner and two-time top speaker of the Leighton B. Dawson open moot court competition. Tom has been a member of the State Bar of Texas since his admission in 1983 and is admitted to practice before all four federal districts in Texas and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Fulkerson Lotz LLP is an AV^{^®}-rated law firm, and Tom personally carries an AV^{^®} Peer Review Rating in the Martindale-Hubbell rating system.*

Tom joined Morris & Campbell, a litigation boutique, upon graduating law school in 1983 and became a partner in the firm in 1987. In 1990, he joined Porter & Clements, L.L.P. and was elected to its partnership at the end of 1991. He was a founding partner of Clements, O’Neill & Pierce, L.L.P. in 1993 and became a named partner of Clements, O’Neill, Pierce, Wilson & Fulkerson, L.L.P. during 2001, where he remained until the formation of Wilson Fulkerson LLP in January 2005. When Mike Wilson joined Akin Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP, Tom formed his own firm in November 2006.

*CV, BV and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the Judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell Ratings fall into two categories—legal ability and general ethical standards.

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