Dan Tobin - Houston, TX

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Southern Methodist University School of Law, Dallas, Texas, 2004
    J.D.
    Honors: cum laude
    Law Review: SMU Law Review Association

• Non Legal Education

  • University of Buffalo, 2001
    B.A.
    Honors: magna cum laude

Current Employment Position(s)

• Condemnation Attorney

Past Positions

• President, SettlePou, 2019-2020

Classes and Seminars

• “Texas Law on Utility Easements and Rights-of-Way,” live webinar speaker, 2023-2025
  
• “Impacting Constitutional Rights: The Importance of Easements and Surveys to Eminent Domain,” speaker, Utility Engineering & Surveying Institute Conference, Texas Chapter, May 2025
  
• “Latest Developments in Eminent Domain,” speaker, Dallas Bar Association, December 2024
  
• “Sticky Wickets: Difficult Compensation Questions,” speaker, International Right of Way Association, North Texas Chapter 2023 Spring Seminar
  
• Greater Texas Podcast, Fighting for Landowners in Dallas, speaker, Spring 2022

Representative Cases

• Landed a jury verdict more than 300% higher than the State’s offer in Bastrop County for the partial taking of a self-storage business.
• Achieved a $10,900,000 settlement for the owner of a food processing facility in Dallas County, a 163% increase over the City of Dallas’s offer.
• Secured a $2,276,809 judgment for the State’s partial taking of a convenience store on an offer of $234,806.
• Obtained a $5,500,000 judgment for the State’s partial taking of a multi-tenant automotive use property, a 150% increase over the State’s offer.
• Negotiated a $1,500,000 increase in compensation for a nationwide developer due to a waterline easement impacting a 300+ residential home development in Collin County.
• Secured a $1,137,500 increase in compensation for a ranch owner in Duval County over a high-voltage transmission line easement.
• Negotiated a 440% increase in compensation for the owner of billboard easement in Bexar County.
• Obtained a successful jury verdict in a Tarrant County case involving office use property bordering a golf course and an airport with issues concerning noise mitigation and cost to comply with municipal infrastructure requirements.
• Secured a multimillion-dollar settlement of market value of vacant land with highest and best as development for a data center in the face of a project influence challenge by the utility company.
• Successfully negotiated relocation of a temporary construction easement for a multifamily apartment complex in Bexar County to prevent negative impact on the function of the property.

Bar Admissions

• Texas, 2004
• New York, 2006

Other Affiliations

• Owners Counsel of America, Affiliate Member
• North Texas CCIM Chapter, Affiliate Member (Affiliate Member)
• Austin Street Center for the Homeless, Ministry Leader, St. Monica Catholic Church