The Firm works closely with both our corporate and individual clients as counselors by providing strategic planning and the development and implementation of plans to fit their needs.
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Timothy T. Pridmore
Mr. Pridmore prosecutes and defends business and personal injury litigation for individual and corporate clients in both state and federal courts. As to some of his corporate clients, Mr. Pridmore acts as their general counsel. This includes litigation, transactional, and employment related services. He is a member of the Texas Bar, Texas Bar Foundation, is a Master of the Texas Tech Inn of Courts, and is a director of the Lubbock Area Bar Association. He was also selected to the National Order of Barristers and was named a Business Litigation Super Lawyer for 2024. Mr. Pridmore won two National Moot Court Championships and Best Brief award while attending South Texas College of Law in Houston. He earned his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Texas Tech University in 1989. While attending Texas Tech University, he worked for Dean Witter Reynolds as an Account Executive, where he obtained his securities license.
Professional Experience:
McWhorter, Cobb & Johnson, LLP Partner, 1993 – present
Practice Areas:
Civil litigation in federal and state courts, with a concentration in commercial/business litigation, employment and personal injury litigation, oil and gas litigation and corporate/transactional related work.
Education:
South Texas College of Law, Houston, Texas
Doctor of Jurisprudence 1993
Advocacy Scholarships; American Bar Association National Moot Court Champion; Vanderbilt University; National Moot Court Champion;
Phi Delta Phi (Honorary Legal Fraternity)
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
Bachelor of Business Administration, Economics (1989) Sigma Chi Fraternity
Licenses:
Supreme Court of Texas
United States Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
U.S. District Courts:
Northern District of Texas, Western District of Texas, Eastern District of Texas
United States Bankruptcy Court
National Security Licenses
Series 7 and 63, expired
Professional Organizations:
National Order of Barristers
Texas Bar Foundation Life Fellow
American Inns of Court, prior Executive Board, Master of the Bench
State Bar of Texas, Member, Litigation Section
Lubbock Area Bar Association, Director, (2023 – Present)
Prior Officer and Board of Directors/Lubbock County Young Lawyers Association, Nominated for Outstanding Young Lawyer Award
Legal and Advocacy Awards:
Super Lawyer: Business Litigation, 2023-2024
Texas Lawyer Verdicts Hall of Fame 2013
Top Texas Verdicts 2012
National Order of Barristers
Speaker and presenter at various conferences
Civic Services:
North Overton Tax Increment Finance, Reinvestment Zone Board, Vice Chair
Texas Tech Spurs Society
Lubbock Area Foundation Board, Past Board Chair, Director/Executive Committee – Friends of the Foundation
Museum of Texas Tech University Museum Association Trustee (Prior)
Lubbock Symphony Orchestra Maestro Circle 2013-2014 Lubbock Assembly Club (Prior)
Prior Midwest Little League Coach & Board of Directors (Prior)
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Past Elder, Deacon and Teacher
Lubbock Symphony Orchestra Board of Directors (Prior)
Texas Tech University Chancellors Council Advisory Board of Directors (Prior)
Texas Tech University Library Board (Prior)
Texas Tech Museum Acquisition Board (Prior)
Numerous charitable and political work and events
R. Michael McCauley, Jr.
Mr. McCauley was admitted to the Texas bar in 1996. Mr. McCauley was also admitted to the New Mexico Bar in 2020 and the Oklahoma Bar in 2021. He prosecutes and defends general civil litigation in federal and state courts, with this primary emphasis in commercial/business transactions and litigation, banking law, oil and gas transactions, personal injury litigation, administrative law, bankruptcy law for creditors, professional malpractice and insurance defense. He represents both corporate and individual clients, and has been involved in prominent litigation throughout the State of Texas. He also assists his clients with their needs in structuring business entities and negotiating business ventures and transactions.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
McWhorter, Cobb and Johnson,
Partner, 2001-Present
Associate, 1996-2000
Law Clerk, 1995-1996
EDUCATION
Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, Texas
Juris Doctorate Degree, cum laude, 1996,
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Bachelor of Art (English), 1993
LICENSES
Supreme Court of Texas
New Mexico Supreme Court
Oklahoma Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
United States District Courts
Northern District of Texas
Southern District of Texas
Western District of Texas
Eastern District of Texas
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
State Bar of Texas
Texas Bar Foundation
Life Fellow Lubbock County Bar Association
Texas Association of Bank Counsel
Texas Tech University Inn of the Court
Executive Committee, 2022-2024
Master, 2015-Present
Barrister, 2013-2015
Farm, Ranch & Agri-Business Bankruptcy Institute
Chairman, 2004-2005
Committee Member, 2000-2010
West Texas Bankruptcy Bar Association: Pro-Tem Secretary, 1999-2000
Lubbock County Young Lawyers Association
President, 2001-2002
President-Elect, 2000-2001
Treasurer, 1999-2000
Secretary, 1998-1999
Legal Research Board, Texas Tech University, School of Law, 1995-1996
The Texas Bank Lawyer, 1994-1996; Student Editor, 1995-1996
CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS
South Plains Food Bank
Audit Committee, 2023 – Present
Vice Chair, Finance Committee, 2022 – 2024
Executive Board Member, 2020 – 2022
Stewardship Committee Chairman, 2020 – 2022
Stewardship Committee, 2018 – 2022
Board of Directors, 2018-Present
Summer of Sharing Committee Member, 2012 – Present
Majors Ranch Property Owners’ Association
President, August, 2022 – Present
Director, July, 2022 – Present
Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD): Executive Committee, 2015-2020
ARCS Foundation, Inc., Achievement Rewards for College Scientists, Advisory Board 2002-2003
Frenship Youth Baseball Coach, 1997-2007
VOLUNTARY SERVICE
Volunteer Representative Florida Tallahassee Missions, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 7/1987-6/1989
AWARDS
Texas Lawyer Verdicts Hall of Fame, 2013
Top Texas Verdicts in 2012 ($118,000,000)
Outstanding Young Lawyer, Lubbock County, 2001-2002 John H. Splawn, Jr., Memorial Endowed Scholarship
American Jurisprudence Award (Legal Research and Writing), 1993
Eagle Scout
Gwynn P. Martin
Mrs. Martin primarily practices in the areas of general commercial transactions, real estate, probate, trust and estate planning, non-profit organizations and banking law. She graduated from Lubbock Christian University magna cum laude in 1986 with a degree in Business Administration. Mrs. Martin later graduated with honors from Texas Tech University School of Law in 1997. Mrs. Martin has served as an officer and director of Lubbock County Young Lawyers Association and as an Officer and Director of South Plains Trust and Estate Council. She has been associated with the firm since her graduation.
Practice Areas:
Probate
Trust Law
Estate Planning
Real Estate
Commercial Law
Banking Law
Non-Profit Organizations
Education:
Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, Texas
Doctor of Jurisprudence (1997), Cum Laude
Lubbock Christian University, Lubbock, Texas
Bachelor of Science (1986), Magna Cum Laude
Licenses:
United States District Court: Northern District of Texas
Professional Organizations:
Lubbock County Bar Association
State Bar of Texas
Lubbock County Young Lawyers Association: Director, 1999-001; Secretary 2001-2002
Texas Association of Bank Counsel
South Plains Trust and Estate Council: Director: 2008 to present; Officer (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Awards:
Lubbock County Bar Association and Legal Aid of Northwest Texas: 2003 John Crews Bro Bono Lawyer of the Year
James L. Stevens
Mr. Stevens works on Real Estate and Probate issues for individuals and corporate clients. Mr. Stevens worked as corporate counsel for Stewart Title of Lubbock, Inc., for seven years before joining the firm. As such, he developed expertise in curing title defects as well as valuable experience in complex real estate transactions. Mr. Stevens represents several area and regional banking institutions focusing on commercial loans. Mr. Stevens also works closely with title companies in the Lubbock area.
Practice Areas:
Real Estate
Banking
Probate
Education:
Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, Texas
Doctor of Jurisprudence (1997), Cum Laude
West Texas A&M University (WTAMU), Canyon, Texas
Bachelor of Science, Major – History, Minor – Physics (1994)
Magna Cum Laude
Licenses:
Supreme Court of Texas
Supreme Court of New Mexico
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Professional Organizations:
State Bar of Texas
Lubbock County Bar Association
Civic Services:
Missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: Southern California
Todd J. Johnston
Mr. Johnston was admitted to the Texas Bar in 2005 and the New Mexico Bar in 2016. Mr. Johnston’s primary emphasis is in business and consumer bankruptcy law representing both creditors and debtors. Mr. Johnston also practices in the areas of general commercial/business transactions and litigation, banking law, personal injury litigation, probate, trust and estate planning. He received his Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Texas. Prior to his legal career, Mr. Johnston served as both an intelligence officer and instructor in the United States Air Force. He completed his military service in 2002 after a seven year career highlighted by his involvement in the U-2 aerial reconnaissance program and a ROTC professorship at Louisiana State University.
Practice Areas:
Bankruptcy
Commercial/Business Transactions and Litigation
Banking Law
Personal Injury Litigation
Estate Planning
Probate
Education:
The University of Texas School of Law Austin, Texas
Doctor of Jurisprudence (2005)
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
Masters in Public Management, Finance (1997)
United States Air Force Academy
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Bachelor of Science, Economics (1995) Distinguished Graduate, ranked 20/994
Licenses:
Supreme Court of Texas
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
United States District Court:
Northern District of Texas
Southern District of Texas
Western District of Texas
Supreme Court of New Mexico
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit United States District Court, District of New Mexico
Professional Organizations:
Lubbock Area Bar Association–Board Member
West Texas Bankruptcy Bar Association — President (2011-12 & 2018-19)
Civic Services:
St. Johns Legal Clinic
Usher, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
St. Paul’s Trustee
Jack P. Driskill
Jack P. Driskill
Mr. Driskill is the managing partner of the Firm. He heads the banking and commercial law section of the Firm. He has extensive experience in the representation of financial institutions. He is a founding member of the Texas Bank Lawyers Association and has served as a Director on two different occasions.
Mr. Driskill has a sophisticated transactional practice and serves as general counsel of several companies, including developers and owner of apartment projects. The transactional practice is focused on real estate, oil & gas and the structuring of business entities.
Mr. Driskill also works with high net worth individuals and families in their estate planning through the use of family limited partnerships and generation skipping trusts to transfer their family business and assets from generation to generation.
He was Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Tech Law Review in 1970-1971 and was the highest ranking graduate of his class from law school. He earned his Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Chemistry, from Texas Tech University in 1964 and worked as a geophysicist for Amoco for four years.
Education:
Texas Tech University School of Law
Lubbock, Texas
Doctor of Jurisprudence 1970
Editor in Chief – Texas Tech Law Review
Rank 1/50 (highest weighted cumulative average) Order of the Forum (Honorary Legal Fraternity) Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics (1964)
Licenses:
Supreme Court of Texas
United States District Court
Northern District of Texas
United States Court of appeals, Fifth Circuit United States Claims Court
United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
Professional Organizations:
State Bar of Texas, Member
Lubbock County Bar Association
American Bar Association
Texas Association of Bank Counsel (Director 1992-1995; 2016-2019)
Civic Services:
North Overton Tax Increment Finance District Chairman of the Board
Texas Tech University
Chancellor’s Council
D. Thomas Johnson
Mr. Johnson is a general litigator with extensive experience in insurance, railroad, and professional malpractice defense and business litigation. He is Board Certified in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He served as President of the Lubbock County Bar Association, Director of the State Bar of Texas, and Trustee of the Texas Bar Foundation. He graduated from Indiana University and from the University of Texas Law School in 1966.
Education:
University of Texas School of Law Austin, Texas
Doctor of Jurisprudence 1966 Phi Alpha Delta (Legal)
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana B.A., 1961
Licenses:
United States Supreme Court Supreme Court of Texas
United States Court of Appeals For the Fifth Circuit
For the Eleventh Circuit For the Federal Circuit United States District Court
Northern District of Texas Eastern District of Texas Western District of Texas Southern District of Texas
United States Court of Claims
Certification:
Board certified in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization
Professional Organizations:
State Bar of Texas
Board of Directors 1984-87
Member, Litigation Section, Tort and Compensation Section, and School Law Section
Texas Board of Legal Specialization
Member, Advisory Commission
Civil Trial Law, 1979-84
Chairman, State Bar of Texas Board of Directors Committee on Legal Specialization Texas Bar Foundation
Sustaining Life FellowTrustee 1987-90 Lubbock County Bar Association
Treasurer 1970-71
Chairman, Continuing Legal Education Committee, 1976-78
Board of Directors 1973-75, 1977-81 President 1979-80
American Board of Trial Advocates
Bar Association of Fifth Federal CircuitFederation of Insurance and Corporate Counsel Association of Defense Trial Attorneys
Texas Association of Defense Counsel National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel Texas Association of Railroad Trial Counsel
Bryan K. Greer
Bryan K. Greer was admitted to the Texas bar in 2021, and primarily practices in the areas of trust and estate planning, probate, real estate, and general commercial transactions. He graduated from Texas Tech University in 2018 with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting as well as a Master of Science in Accounting before graduating cum laude from the Texas Tech University School of Law in 2021. Prior to attending Texas Tech, he graduated from Lubbock-Cooper High School and served in the Middle East as a member of the United States Marine Corps infantry.
Professional Experience:
McWhorter, Cobb and Johnson, LLP
Associate, 2022 – Present
Ernst & Young US, LLP
Associate, 2021-2022
Education:
Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, Texas
Juris Doctorate Degree, 2021, cum laude
Texas Tech University Rawls College of Business
Master of Science, Accounting, 2018
Bachelor of Business Administration, Accounting, 2018
Licenses:
Supreme Court of Texas
Supreme Court of New Mexico
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Professional Organizations:
State Bar of Texas
State Bar of New Mexico
State Bar of Oklahoma
Lubbock Area Bar Association
Texas Young Lawyers Association
Leadership Lubbock, 2023
Volunteer and Pro Bono Service:
Texas Tech University School of Law Low Income Taxpayer Clinic
Student Representative, 2020
David Rice
Mr. Rice graduated Magna Cum Laude from Texas Tech School of Law. He was a member of the Texas Tech Law Review and served as a staff member and as an Articles Editor. While at Texas Tech, Mr. Rice worked in the Low-Income Tax Clinic providing representation to low-income individuals against the Internal Revenue Service where he received a distinction award for academic achievement. Prior to attending Texas Tech School of Law, Mr. Rice attended Hardin-Simmons University where he played collegiate soccer and was selected as a Senior Captain for the team.
Professional Experience:
McWhorter, Cobb, and Johnson, LLP
Associate, 2022-Present
Law Clerk, 2022
44th Civil District Court
Judicial Intern, 2020
Education:
Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, Texas, 2022 – J.D.
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Distinguished Award for Academic Achievement – Texas Tech School of Law, Low Income Tax Clinic
Pro Bono Honors Award – Texas Tech School of Law
Law Review: Texas Tech Law Review, 2020-2022
Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, Texas, 2019 – B.A.
Hardin-Simmons Men’s Soccer: 2015-2019
Senior Captain: 2018-2019
Licenses:
Supreme Court of Texas
Professional Organizations:
State Bar of Texas
Awards:
Eagle Scout, Troop 86, Amarillo, Texas
Kimberley Farnsworth
Ms. Farnsworth is admitted to the Texas and Utah bars with experience in wills and estates, business formation, mediation, and transactional law. She received her juris doctorate from the J. Reuben Clark School at Brigham Young University in 2022, and she finished her Bachelor’s in Music Performance, specializing in piano, from Brigham Young University in 2019. Ms. Farnsworth previously lived in Lubbock for several years in her childhood and has always wanted to return to Texas.
Professional Experience:
McWhorter, Cobb and Johnson, LLP
Associate, 2022 – Present
Education:
Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Juris Doctorate, 2022
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Bachelor of Music (Piano Performance), 2019, cum laude
Licenses:
Supreme Court of Texas
Supreme Court of Utah
Professional Organizations:
State Bar of Texas
State Bar of Utah
S. Drew Simmons
Samuel “Drew” Simmons was admitted to the Texas bar in 2022. Drew’s practice primarily deals with contract litigation, real estate and eminent domain. Born in Lubbock, Drew went to Texas Tech University for his undergraduate degree and graduated law school from the University of Houston Law Center. Prior to law school Drew worked in a variety of areas from construction and food service to retirement plan consulting and real-estate title. Drew moved back to Lubbock in 2022 to begin his law practice.
Professional Legal Experience:
McWhorter, Cobb & Johnson, LLP, Associate, 2024 – Present
Brady & Hamilton, LLP, Associate, 2022 – 2024
Practice Areas:
Litigation, Contract Litigation, Real Estate and Eminent Domain
Education:
University of Houston Law Center
Doctor of Jurisprudence, 2022
Texas Tech University, Bachelor of Business Administration, Management & Marketing, 2014
Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity – 2010-2014
Licenses:
Supreme Court of Texas
Professional Organizations:
State Bar of Texas
Lubbock Area Bar Association
Lubbock Young Lawyers Association
