John Easter

Mr. Easter joined Padfield & Stout, LLP in 2018 and is committed to assisting the firm’s growing civil litigation and trial practice. Mr. Easter’s practice focuses on commercial litigation where he has successfully represented clients in a wide variety of complex disputes involving contracts, UCC Articles 2A and 9, DTPA violations, real estate, sequestrations/replevins, and fraud. Mr. Easter has experience trying cases to each the bench and jury and represents clients through the appeals process and judgment collection. Mr. Easter has utilized post-judgment remedies that include bank garnishments, receiverships, charging orders, judgment liens, and writs of execution.

• Served as first-chair in a tort and employment dispute in which a favorable seven-figure jury verdict was rendered.
• Obtained state order of sequestration relating to collateral that was recovered and sold pursuant to court order for a sum in excess of $1.3 million.
• Obtained federal order of replevin relating to collateral with an estimated valuation in excess of $500,000.00.
• Domesticated a foreign judgment that resulted in net recovery to the client of over $450,000.00.
• Negotiated and drafted a complex settlement through which the client obtained a $3.7+ million judgment.
• Conducted judicial and non-judicial foreclosures of real property, which have exceeded valuation of $7 million.
• Prepared appellate briefing before the Fort Worth Court of Appeals, Amarillo Court of Appeals, and Austin Court of Appeals.
• Effectuated commercial and residential evictions throughout the DFW metroplex and surrounding counties.

Juris Doctorate (Magna Cum Laude), Texas Tech University School of Law

B.S., Communications (Magna Cum Laude), Milliken University

• State of Texas
• U.S. District/Bankruptcy Courts for the Northern District of Texas
• U.S. District/Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern District of Texas
• U.S. District/Bankruptcy Courts for the Southern District of Texas
• U.S. District/Bankruptcy Courts for the Western District of Texas

• Top Attorney, Fort Worth Magazine, Commercial Litigation, 2021-2025
• Top Attorney, 360West magazine, 2025

• Tarrant County Young Lawyers Association, President, 2025-2026 Term
• Fort Worth Teen Court Inc., Vice-President, 2025-2026 Term
• Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow
• Tarrant County Bar Foundation, Fellow

• Speaker & Co-Author, Creditors’ Prejudgment Remedies — State Bar of Texas, April 2025.
• Speaker, An Introduction to Anit-SLAPP Litigation in Texas — December 2018