Meet Chris Nolland: The Master of Bowties and Litigation Settlements
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Dallas lawyer Chris Nolland is handling some of the biggest-dollar and most high-profile business lawsuits in Texas.
Nolland has one client suing the Bass family for $470 million over a failed Las Vegas real estate deal and another seeking to collect a $120 million jury verdict against Mercedes-Benz.
He represented Harold Simmons’ daughter in the fight over his $1 billion estate, a granddaughter battling over the estate of Mary Kay Ash, bondholders who sued the Dallas Cowboys for cannibalizing the “Blue Parking” at the old stadium, and Houston billionaire Howard Marshall III in the estate battle involving Anna Nicole Smith.
Yet Nolland never takes depositions. He doesn’t argue the finer points of the law to the judges, doesn’t pick juries or cross-examine witnesses. In fact, Nolland avoids courtrooms altogether.
Over the last two decades, the former trial lawyer has quietly pioneered a specialized legal practice called settlement counsel.
“I am hired by one side or the other in high-dollar and very complex business disputes to do one thing: find a way to settle the litigation to the satisfaction and benefit of my client,” says Nolland, whose clients have pocketed more than $600 million as a result of his handiwork.
In the early 1990s, Nolland was one of the first lawyers nationally to recognize a legal specialty focusing on nothing but negotiating conflict resolutions.
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