Steven L. Hoard

Steven L. Hoard is a founding partner with Mullin Hoard & Brown LLP in Amarillo, Texas, where he concentrates his practice in the area of complex civil litigation, with a focus on professional and director and officer liability and creditors' rights. He has prosecuted both legal and accounting malpractice cases, director and officer liability claims, and fidelity bond claims on behalf of trustees and receivers. Mr. Hoard has represented a variety of creditors, trustees and receivers in prosecuting complex fraudulent- transfer claims and has successfully attacked offshore trusts that were established to put assets beyond the reach of creditors. He also has experience in obtaining asset-freeze injunctions to prevent defen- dants from making further fraudulent transfers while cases against them are pending. Most recently, he represented the reorganized Overseas Shipholding Group in its legal malpractice claim against its former outside general counsel, the reorganized Enron Corp., in its fidelity bond claims arising out of the financial machinations of Andy Fastow, and the creditors' trust in the Yellowstone Club bankruptcy in obtaining a $286 million judgment against its former owner, Tim Blixseth. Mr. Hoard is Board Certi- fied by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in both Civil Trial Law (1986) and Business Bankruptcy Law (1988). He is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the North Carolina State Bar, the American Bar Association and the Amarillo Bar Association, for which he served as president in 1995-96. Mr. Hoard received his B.A. in English with highest honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975 and his J.D. with honors from the University of North Carolina in 1979, where he served as articles editor of the North Carolina Law Review.