Charles B. McFarland - Houston, TX

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas, 1995
    Juris Doctorate With Honors
    Honors: Order of the Coif

• Non Legal Education

  • University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1991
    B.A. With Honors
    Honors: Plan II Liberal Arts Honors Program

Current Employment Position(s)

• Condemnation Attorney

Past Positions

• Partner, Vinson & Elkins LLP (Condemnation & Land Use Litigation Section)

Classes and Seminars

• Understanding the Opposition: Perspectives on Litigating Condemnation Cases, ali-cle eminent domain and land valuation litigation, Austin, Texas 2023
  
• Direct and Cross Examination of Valuation Witnesses, ali-cle eminent domain and land valuation litigation, Austin, Texas 2023
  
• Sticky Wickets: Difficult Compensation Questions, CLE International Eminent Domain Super Conference, Austin, Texas, 2022
  
• Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law, Harris County Civil District Judge CLE Retreat, 2021
  
• Surviving Project Abandonment: How to Best Position Your Client to Withstand the Fallout When Controversial Projects Don’t Get Built, Owners’ Counsel of America Webinar, 2021
  
• Picking Fights: Inverse Condemnation, Regulatory Takings, and Challenging the Right to Take, CLE International Eminent Domain Super Conference, Austin, Texas, 2020
  
• A River Runs Through It—Water Rights and Takings, ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation, Nashville, Tennessee, 2020
  
• Texas Land Laws for Engineers and Surveyors (Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law), HalfMoon Education, Online Webinar, 2019
  
• Run for the Border: Fence and Wall Condemnations, ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation, Palm Springs, California, 2019
  
• The Larger Parcel and Just Compensation, CLE International Eminent Domain Super Conference, Austin, Texas, February 2012
  
• The Exclusion of Experts in a Condemnation Case, CLE International Eminent Domain Super Conference, Austin, Texas, February 2010
  
• Representing the Property Owner, CLE International Eminent Domain Super Conference, Austin, Texas, January 2009
  
• Lessons (To Be) Learned from PR Investments and FKM Partnership, CLE International Eminent Domain Conference, Austin, Texas, February 2008
  
• Protecting Private Property Rights After the Public Use Ship Has Sailed, Litigation Magazine, American Bar Association, Fall 2007
  
• Hot Topics: The Project Influence Rule, CLE International Eminent Domain Conference, Austin, Texas, March 2007
  
• Listening and Matching, the Keys to Witness Examination, Proof Newsletter of the Section of Litigation’s Trial Evidence Committee, American Bar Association, Fall 2007
  
• Trial Tactics, CLE International Eminent Domain Conference, Austin, Texas, March 2006
  
• Errors And Omissions In A Condemnation Case: Legal Malpractice Issues For Condemning Authority And Property Owner Representations, CLE International Eminent Domain Conference, Houston, Texas, October 2004
  
• Proximity Damages - From Carpenter to Schmidt and Back Again: The Interstate Northborough Case, International Right of Way Association's Eminent Domain Seminar, 2002
  
• The Separate Economic Unit: Smaller or Larger than the Whole?, International Right of Way Association's Eminent Domain Conference, 2000

Pro Bono Activities

• Vice Chair, Counselors of Real Estate (CRE), Houston Chapter
• Texas Bar Foundation
• Houston Bar Foundation
• Board Member, Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists
• Past President, Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists
• Keeton Fellow, University of Texas School of Law
• Past Chair, Damages Subcommittee of the Condemnation, Zoning and Land Use Litigation Committee of the Section of Litigation for the American Bar Association

Representative Cases

• Commons of Lake Houston, Ltd. v. City of Houston v. 711 S.W.3d 666 (Tex. 2024), cert. denied
• Litinas v. City of Houston, 703 S.W.3d 443 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2024, no pet.)
• In re DeRuiter Ranch, LLC, No. 13-21-00001-CV, 2021 Tex. App. LEXIS 7941 (Tex. App.—Corpus Christi-Edinburg 2021, no pet.)
• In re Permian Highway Pipeline LLC, 2020 Tex. App. LEXIS 8821 (Tex. App.—Corpus Christi-Edinburg 2020, n.w.h.)
• City of Houston v. Commons at Lake Houston, Ltd., 587 S.W.3d 494 (Tex.App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2019)
• City of Houston v. Commons at Lake Houston, Ltd., 2019 Tex. App. LEXIS 9083, 2019 WL 5158725 (Tex. App.—Houston (14th Dist.) Oct. 15, 2019)
• In re San Jacinto River Auth., 2018 Tex. App. LEXIS 6712 (Tex.App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2018)
• In re Adams, LLC, 2016 Tex. App. LEXIS 12352 (Tex.App. —Beaumont 2016)
• City of Beaumont v. Target Corp., 2016 Tex. App. LEXIS 9360 (Tex.App.—Beaumont 2016)
• State v. Titan Land Dev. Inc., 468 S.W.3d 705 (Tex.App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 2015)
• City of Corpus Christi v. Scorpio Development, LLC, 2014 WL 1007880 (Tex. App.—Corpus Christi–Edinburg 2014, no pet.)
• Farabi, Inc. v. Harris County, 2014 WL 3698451 (Tex. App.—Houston (14th Dist.) 2014, pet. denied)
• In re ETC NGL Transp., LLC, 2012 Tex. App. LEXIS 1508 (Tex.App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2012)
• ETC NGL Transp., LLC v. Occidental Chem. Corp., 2011 Tex. Dist. LEXIS 13864
• ETC NGL Transp. LLC v. Occidental Chem. Corp., 2011 Tex. Dist. LEXIS 13869
• PR Investments and Specialty Retailers, Inc. v. State, 251 S.W.3d 472 (Tex. 2008)
• PR Invs. & Specialty Retailers, Inc. v. State, 251 S.W.3d 472 (Tex. 2008)
• Eye Plus Vision, Inc. v. CBH Tract III, L.P., 2007 WL 3293732 (Tex. App.—Houston (1st Dist.) 2007)
• State v. Beeson, 232 S.W.3d 265 (Tex.App.—Eastland 2007)
• Motiva Enters., LLC v. McCrabb, 248 S.W.3d 211 (Tex.App---Houston [1st Dist.] 2007)
• State v. Target Corp., 194 S.W.3d 46 (Tex.App.—Waco 2006)
• Harris County v. Inter Nos, Ltd., 199 S.W.3d 363 (Tex.App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 2006)
• CenterPoint Energy Houston Elec., L.L.P. v. Old TJC Co., 177 S.W.3d 425 (Tex.App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 2005)
• City of Houston v. Van De Mark, 83 S.W.3d 864 (Tex. App.—Texarkana 2002)
• State v. Northborough Ctr., Inc., 987 S.W.2d 187 (Tex.App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 1999)

Published Works

Articles

• Protecting Private Property Rights After the Public Use Ship Has Sailed, Litigation Magazine, American Bar Association, Fall, 2007
  
• The TXDOT Funding Crisis, V&E Condemnation and Land Use E-Lert, January, 2008
  
• Ten Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Condemnation Attorney, V&E Condemnation and Land Use E-Lert, December, 2007
  
• TXDOT's Draft Schematic Drawings Now Available Online, V&E Condemnation and Land Use E-Lert, August, 2007
  
• The Public Hearing on TXDOT's Draft Environmental Impact Statement, V&E Condemnation and Land Use E-Lert, July, 2007
  
• Property Owners Contacted for Surveying, V&E Condemnation and Land Use E-Lert, June, 2007
• U.S. 290 Corridor Project Pushed Back Again, V&E Condemnation and Land Use E-Lert, December, 2006
• Design Schematic for U.S. 290 Corridor Project Over 80 Percent Complete, V&E Condemnation and Land Use E-Lert, May, 2006

Bar Admissions

• Texas, 1995
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
• Supreme Court of the United States of America

Other Affiliations

• Texas Member, Owners’ Counsel of America
• Senior Advisory Partner, Greater Houston Partnership
• American Bar Association (Past Chair, Damages Subcommittee of the Condemnation, Zoning and Land Use Litigation Committee of the Section of Litigation)
• Member, The Counselors of Real Estate (CRE)
• Past President, Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists
• Past Chair, Damages Subcommittee of the Condemnation, Zoning and Land Use Litigation Committee of the Section of Litigation of the American Bar Association
• Keeton Fellow, University of Texas School of Law
• Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
• Fellow, Houston Bar Foundation