Art Selander represents a wide variety of clients in state and federal trial and appellate courts regarding business, commercial, banking, real estate, construction, oil and gas, municipal regulation and constitutional issues. He has represented title insurers, sellers of commercial real estate and associated businesses throughout Texas, including a landmark case in the state’s Supreme Court which established that commercial construction sureties are exempt from statutory and common law “bad faith” insurance claims. This work extends to representation of numerous clients in land use matters before the Dallas City Council, the Dallas City Plan Commission, the Dallas Board of Adjustment, the Dallas Landmark Commission and the Dallas Permit and License Appeal Board, as well as appeals of those proceedings to both state and federal courts. Mr. Selander has also represented business clients in litigation against governmental regulatory authorities based upon violations of state and federal constitutional law relating to freedom of expression, procedural and substantive due process, and equal protection of the law. 

Mr. Selander’s select reported cases include:

• Vandenavond v. I2 Technologies, Inc., 2008 WL 5336300 (N.D. Tex 2008)
• Wyly v. Preservation Dallas, 165 S.W.3d 460 (Tex.App. – Dallas 2005)
• Millennium Restaurants Group, Inc. v. City of Dallas, Texas, 191 F.Supp. 2d 802 (N.D. Tex. 2002)
• Great American Insurance Company v. North Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1, 950 S.W.2d 371 (Tex. 1997)
• Great American Insurance Company v. North Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1, 908 S.W.2d 415 (Tex. 1995)
• Julian v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 163 B.R. 478 (Bankr. N.D. Tex. 1994)
• Klein v. Henry S. Miller Residential Services, Inc., 94 F.R.D. 651 (N.D. Tex. 1982)