(Main Office)

Stephenson Snokhous & Fournier provides clients with responsive legal services of the highest quality, tempered by sensitivity to each client's business concerns and budget. Our practice is broad based and business oriented, representing clients in domestic and international corporate and partnership transactions, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, commercial and residential real estate, securities transactions, oil and gas transactions, probate and estate planning.

Individual lawyers in the firm are not certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, unless so indicated.

Statement of Practice

Business and Commercial Transactions, Real Estate, Taxation, Estate Planning, Trusts, Probate, Oil and Gas Law.

Representative Clients:

Bigler LP
Houston Hospital Services, Inc.
J.A. Billipp Company
Wallis State Bank
Empire Truck Lines
Seisgen Exploration
Ley/Wilson Development
Brazos Valley Water Alliance, L.P.
Leisure Concepts Management
Colt Services
Complete Rx
CleanServe
Grason Communities, Ltd.
COSCO Capital Management, LLC.

Address

4544 Post Oak Place, Suite 378
Houston, TX 77027-3104, (Ft. Bend, Harris & Montgomery Cos.)

Phone

Phone: 713-629-9494
Fax: 713-629-9606

Website

http://www.stephensonlaw.com

PARTNERS

James F. Stephenson, Jr. (Managing Partner) born Houston, Texas; admitted to bar, 1975, Texas. Education: Texas A & M University, College Station (B.B.A., Finance, 1970); University of Houston Law Center (J.D., 1974). Member: Moot Court; Order of the Barons. Weekly Family YMCA Board of Managers, 1982-1989, 2001—. Stella Link Redevelopment Association, 1988-1993. Director, Texas Youth Academy, 1989-1995, and Holy Trinity Episcopal School 2003—. Member: State Bar of Texas and Houston Bar Association. [Captain, U.S., Army Reserve, 1970-1978]. Practice Areas: Commercial Real Estate; Corporate; Mergers and Acquisitions; Estate Planning; Loans; Oil and Gas Acquisitions; International Trade; Taxation; Partnership Law.

Juliana Alger Fournier (Partner) born Stanford, California; admitted to bar, 1986, Texas. Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.S., with distinction, Political Science, 1983); University of Texas at Austin (J.D., with honors, 1986). Director: The PARC non-profit recreational ministry, 2001-2006; Ricky Deci Memorial Foundation, 2001—; Interfaith Ministries Refugee Services, 1999-2006. Member: State Bar of Texas; Houston Bar Association. Practice Areas: Contracts; Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Securities.

Jennifer M. Elskes (Partner) admitted to bar, 1979, Texas. Education: Carleton College (B.A., cum laude, 1976); University of Texas (J.D., 1979). Former Board Member of Attorneys in Tax and Probate, Rice University Business and Professional Women, Charter 100. Member: Houston and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas; Houston Business and Estate Planning Council. (Board Certified, Estate Planning and Probate Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization). Practice Areas: Estate Planning; Probate.

ASSOCIATE

Andrew Browning (Associate) born Houston, Texas; admitted to bar, 2007, Texas. Education: University of Texas at Austin (B.S., Corporate Communication, 2002); South Texas College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2007) Order of the Lytae. Articles Editor, "Currents: International Trade Law Journal," Phi Delta Phi. Member: Houston Bar Association; State Bar of Texas; Texas Young Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Commercial Real Estate; Corporate Law; Partnership Law; Taxation.

RETIRED PARTNER

Raymond J. Snokhous (Retired Partner) born West, Texas; admitted to bar, 1962, Texas. Education: Hill Junior College (A.A.); University of Houston (B.B.A., 1951); South Texas College of Law (J.D., 1952). Honorary Consul, Czech Republic for the Southern Half of Texas, 1994— Advisory Panel, Energy and Environmental Technology Transfer to Central and Eastern Europe, 1993— Member: Texas Diabetes Council, 1993—; Board of Directors, Buffalo Bayou Partnership, 1995; Executive Committee Board, Greater Houston Convention & Visitors Bureau, 1988-1991; President, Greater Houston Port Bureau, 1987-1989. Senior Vice President, Government and Regulatory Affairs, 1983-1995; Director of State Relations, Gulf Oil Corporation, U.S. Operations, 1952-1983. [U.S. Army, 101st Airborne Infantry Division, 1952-1954]. (Retired).