When an out-of-state company is sued in federal court in Dallas or Fort Worth, it is imperative that the company quickly find local counsel. The local rules of the Northern District of Texas require out-of-state counsel to retain local counsel for cases pending in the Northern District. Local Rule 83.10 provides that \u201c[u]nless exempted by LR 83.11, local counsel is required in all cases where an attorney appearing in a case does not reside or maintain the attorney\u2019s principal office in this district. \u2018Local counsel\u2019 means a member of the bar of this court who resides or maintains the attorney\u2019s principal office in this district and whose residence or principal office is located within 50 miles of the courthouse in the division in which the case is pending….\u201d Local counsel must be authorized to present and argue a party’s position at any hearing called by the presiding judge on short notice.<\/p>\r\n
Immediately after graduating from Tulane Law School, Josh Borsellino clerked for the Chief Judge of the Western District of Texas for two years. Since 2006, Josh Borsellino has practiced in the Dallas\/Fort Worth area, and has practiced extensively in the federal courts in Texas, including the Northern District, on a range of civil cases, representing clients ranging from individuals to Fortune 500 companies, and everything in between, both as plaintiffs and defendants, on a wide variety of cases involving federal claims (trademark and copyright infringement, FLSA, Title VII) and state law claims (fraudulent inducement, breach of contract, DTPA claims). Before founding his own firm, Mr. Borsellino previously worked at Haynes and Boone, one of the largest and most prestigious law firms in Texas where he was voted as a \u201cRising Star\u201d by Thompson Reuters and has served as local counsel on a number of federal cases in the Northern District of Texas.<\/p>\r\n