Matthew B. Fronda

Matt Fronda joined the firm as a law clerk after interning locally at state courts at both the trial and appellate level. Now a Partner at the firm, he helps direct the firm’s litigation and dealer-services practices. Mr. Fronda also focuses on complex probate and civil litigation matters, and regularly appears as lead counsel across the states of Texas and Oklahoma.

• Represents heir to one of the most influential families in Fort Worth in a contested probate dispute regarding related companies in an estate worth more than $1 billion.
• Obtained a favorable settlement in a complex probate dispute involving more than $250 million in assets.
• Represented numerous buyers and sellers of automotive dealerships totaling more than $250 million in value.
• Represented heirs to one of the most prominent families in Dallas in a contested probate dispute regarding the deed to a Texas ranch in an estate worth more than $100 million.
• Represented a private investment firm in complex federal insurance litigation involving claims in excess of $60 million.
• Regularly advised a prominent agricultural lender to consummate a portfolio of loans in excess of $35 million.
• Obtained injunctive relief on behalf of a large national floorplan lender in a dispute with more than $16 million in controversy.
• Represented a large national bank in the $5.9 million sale and acquisition of a Texas pharmacy.
• Obtained a dismissal on behalf of a Texas dealership of claims in excess of $1 million asserted by one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers and distributors for a dealer incentive program.
• Represented Fortune 500 company as lead legal compliance and licensure counsel for its nationwide acquisition of a chain of auction houses.
• Regularly advises a large nationwide automotive services provider as outside corporate counsel.
• Represents a Fortune 500 company as lead legal compliance and licensure counsel for its nationwide acquisition of a chain of auction houses.
• Assisted as outside counsel to a nationwide automotive finance company, coordinating bankruptcy and replevin actions across the country.

Juris Doctorate, Texas A&M University School of Law

• Texas A&M Law Review, Executive Board
• Dean’s Scholar
• Barbri Conviser Scholar

B.S., Journalism & Business, Texas State University

• State of Texas
• State of Oklahoma
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
• U.S. District/Bankruptcy Courts for the Northern District of Texas
• U.S. District/Bankruptcy Courts for the Southern District of Texas
• U.S. District/Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern District of Texas
• U.S. District/Bankruptcy Courts for the Western District of Texas

• State Bar of Texas
• State Bar of Oklahoma
• Texas Creditor’s Bar Association, Director & Past-President
• Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit
• Tarrant County Bar Association
• Phi Delta Phi Legal Honor Society
• Jesuit Legal Society
• Texas Automobile Dealers Association
• North Texas Automobile Dealers Association

• Top Attorney, Best Lawyers in America (2023-2024)
• Rising Star, Super Lawyers (2022-2024)
• Top Attorney, Fort Worth Magazine (2019, 2022, & 2024)

• Co-Author, Prejudgment Remedies for Collection Cases, State Bar of Texas, May, 2025.
• Editor & Co-Author, Texas Collections Manual, Twelfth Edition, State Bar of Texas, 2024.
• Speaker, How to Take an Effective Post-Judgment Deposition and Finding Assets via Technology, State Bar of Texas, May, 2024.
• Co-Author, Prejudgment Remedies for Collection Cases, State Bar of Texas, May, 2024.
• Speaker, How to Take an Effective Post-Judgment Deposition and Finding Assets via Technology, State Bar of Texas, May, 2024.
• Speaker, Post-Judgment Remedies: Judgment Liens, Garnishment, Execution, Turnover Proceedings, Receiverships Under the DTPA, Charging Orders and “Other Stuff,” State Bar of Texas, May, 2023.
• Speaker & Co-Author, Prejudgment Remedies for Collection Cases, State Bar of Texas, October, 2022.
• Speaker, Post-judgment Remedies, State Bar of Texas, May, 2022.
• Co-Author, Creditors’ Prejudgment Remedies, State Bar of Texas, May, 2022.
• Speaker & Co-Author, Dealing with Difficult Judgment Debtors, State Bar of Texas, May, 2022.
• Co-Author, Texas Prejudgment Remedies, State Bar of Texas, May, 2021.
• Co-Author, Texas Prejudgment Remedies, State Bar of Texas, August, 2020.
• Speaker, A Creditor’s Mock Trial, State Bar of Texas, August, 2020.
• Co-Author, Prejudgment Remedies, State Bar of Texas, September, 2019.
• Co-Author, The Contempt Process: A Crash Course in the Enforcement of Civil Orders, State Bar of Texas, May, 2019.
• Co-Author, Sequestrations & Collateral Recovery, State Bar of Texas, May, 2018.
• Co-Chair & Host, Texas Creditor’s Course, Texas Creditor’s Bar Association, October, 2017.
• Speaker, A Creditor’s Mock Trial, State Bar of Texas, May, 2017.
• Editor & Co-Author, Texas Collections Manual, Fifth Edition, State Bar of Texas, 2017.
• Co-Author, Implementing Replevins in Texas Courts, State Bar of Texas, May 2016.
• Co-Author, Sequestrations, A Practical Overview, State Bar of Texas, May 2015.
• Symposium Chair & Host, Energy Symposium, Texas A&M Law Review, March, 2014.
• Symposium Chair & Host, Intellectual Property Symposium, Texas A&M Law Review, October, 2013.