Cole Schotz Adds Veteran Real Estate Atty In Dallas

Cole Schotz PC announced that a Dallas-based real estate attorney with over 25 years of experience has joined the firm as a member.

Walter D. Miller joined Cole Schotz on Monday after a period spent co-running his own firm called Miller Phelps LLP. He also spent around nine and a half years with Haynes Boone, according to his LinkedIn page. 

“Cole Schotz is a firm that exemplifies top-tier, experienced market leaders driven by legal professionalism and guided by each client’s unique objectives, with a long-term view of tailoring their services as trusted business advisers,” Miller told Law360 Pulse Friday. “That approach to client service is consistent with the way I have always practiced.”

A graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Law, Miller focuses his practice on a wide range of real estate matters such as acquisitions and dispositions, development, construction, asset and interest purchases and sales, debt financings, preferred equity and mezzanine structures, leasing, sale-leaseback, workouts and restructurings, Cole Schotz said.

The firm added that he represents a large variety of clients including real estate investment trusts, developers, pension plans, lenders, private equity firms, hedge funds, and public and private companies.

“Clients have responded with excitement that I will be providing the same level of personal service, bolstered by a depth and breadth of like-minded attorneys who share the same values my clients require of me,” Miller said. “This move benefits my clients because they trust me to have affiliated with sophisticated attorneys who have a client-first approach to tailoring the legal work required in a variety of practice areas required by their businesses.”

Along with his work as an attorney, Miller also serves as the American Bar Association‘s chair of pension plan investments and vice-chair of real estate investment funds, Cole Schotz said.

“We are delighted to welcome Walt and his proven track record to our real estate team in Dallas,” real estate co-chair Leo Leyva said in a statement. “Walt is a highly skilled real estate attorney, and his arrival will strengthen the many ways we can provide value to clients in Texas and nationally.”

Other recent hires by Cole Schotz include litigation member James Green Jr. who joined the Wilmington, Delaware, office earlier this month and Dallas-based intellectual property litigator James C. Williams who joined in October.

Cole Schotz currently has around 215 attorneys across its nine offices in Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Washington, D.C., its website said.