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Curtis L. Brown has over 30 years of transaction and litigation experience in real estate, tax, business and estate planning, and trust and estate administration. Before beginning his practice of law, Mr. Brown received his CPA license and practiced in the Denver and New York City offices of one of the largest international accounting firms where he was the Senior Expatriate Tax Accountant for Texaco. He served as Managing Partner of Brown, Baskin, Bickel and Brewer, Attorneys, in Dallas and as General Counsel for Interstate Battery System of America, Inc.

Curtis mediates cases of all types, including large and complex cases. He mediated a commercial construction case that settled in a one-day session with 36 parties, attorneys and insurance representatives around the table. He had the privilege of mediating a case in which the late Senior Federal Judge Jerry Buchmeyer was personally a party in the litigation.

Mr. Brown has lectured on various tax and legal topics, including as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Baylor Law School and as a guest lecturer for other law schools and the State Bar of Texas. He has authored numerous articles including Conservation Contributions: New Incentives, New Perspectives and one concerning access easements, both of which are available as e-books from BarnesandNoble.com.

Curtis serves on the board of Sustaining Land Trust, an organization dedicated to land conservation. He served by appointment on the Judiciary Committee of the Dallas Bar Association, and was elected Chair of the Probate, Trusts and Estates Section of the Association.

After receiving his B.B.A. in Accounting from Texas Tech University, he earned his JurisDoctor degree from The University of Texas School of Law and completed international law studies at the University of Oxford. Mr. Brown has earned from Martindale-Hubbell the rating of “A-V”, the highest rating both as to legal ability and general reputation, every year since 1982.

This website contains information about tax and estate planning matters for use by Mr. Brown’s clients, including a questionnaire to submit information to him and ten informational forms. Others are free to use the information and forms, subject to the caveat at the bottom of this page.

A few letters of recommendation are attached.

You may e-mail Mr. Brown by clicking here.