William D. Ratliff III

Bill Ratliff has more than 30 years of experience in oil and gas transactions, family wealth preservation and transfer, estate planning, domestic taxation, commercial real estate, banking and corporate law. He is board certified in tax law, estate planning and probate law, and commercial real estate law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

Bill has been consistently voted by his peers as one of The Best Lawyers in America, a "Top Attorney in Tarrant County" in Banking, Tax, Estate Planning and Probate and Real Estate Law by Fort Worth Magazine, and a Texas Super Lawyer by Texas Monthly Magazine.

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Areas of Practice 1) Energy, 2) Finance, 3) Energy Finance, 4) Real Estate, 5) Private Clients and Estate Planning, 6) Family Wealth and Estate Planning, 7) Trust and Estate Administration, 8) Tax, 9) Corporate Tax, 10) Energy Tax, 11) Partnership and LLC Tax, 12) Tax Controversy and 13) Fiduciary Disputes
Law School Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law (LL.M.,1975); University of Texas School of Law (J.D., 1974)
Admitted Year 1974
Education University of Texas at Austin (B.B.A., 1971)
Bar Member / Association Texas State Bar Associations
Most recent firm Haynes and Boone, LLP
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