Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody PC

Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody is known for first-class Austin representation built on excellence, experience, and client goals. Founded in 1946, the firm serves individuals, businesses, public entities, nonprofits, lenders, borrowers, fiduciaries, and corporations. Its broad practice includes administrative and regulatory litigation, appellate law, banking, bankruptcy, civil litigation, commercial transactions, construction, corporate securities, environmental matters, estate planning, fiduciary litigation, government affairs, intellectual property, media, oil and gas, real estate, and tax.

Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody develops personalized legal solutions by matching each matter with the forum, practice area, and attorney experience best suited to the client’s needs. The firm reviews business objectives, regulatory duties, transaction terms, litigation exposure, tax concerns, estate structures, and public policy issues before shaping strategy. Thorough preparation supports negotiations, agency proceedings, appeals, trials, financing matters, nonprofit counsel, technology disputes, and commercial decisions with clarity and care.

Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody brings deep expertise to litigation, appeals, corporate formations, mergers, acquisitions, securities matters, land development, water rights, oil and gas disputes, internet regulation, information security, tax planning, and controversy work. The firm also advises tax-exempt organizations, handles fiduciary and probate disputes, protects intellectual property, assists with commercial finance, and represents clients before agencies, including the PUC, TCEQ, TDI, TABC, SOAH, and courts in complex Texas matters.

Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody has earned recognition through decades of leadership, distinguished attorneys, and membership in the Law Firm Alliance. The firm’s history includes former Texas Supreme Court justices, federal appellate judges, government counsel, law professors, law review editors, and State Bar leadership. A commitment to diversity, community service, mentoring, selective global affiliations, and excellent client service helps drive successful outcomes in important Austin, Texas, national, and international matters.