Manning & Meyers: The Dallas Firm That Only Represents the HOA

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At a Glance

Origin & Founder History

Jack Manning was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1966, the same year he received his LL.B. from Baylor University School of Law, following a 1965 Bachelor of Arts in History from Baylor. He went on to earn a Juris Doctorate in 1969 as the profession’s degree requirements shifted nationally from the LL.B. to the J.D. From early in that career, Manning devoted his practice to litigation, collections, and the representation of property owners’ associations — a niche that, in the 1960s and ’70s, was still a comparatively new category of Texas civil practice as planned communities and condominium developments spread across North Texas.

Casey P. Meyers joined the firm decades later, bringing a University of Texas at Austin government degree (2002, with honors) and a 2005 Baylor J.D. focused on corporate and real estate law. Meyers has been a member of the State Bar of Texas since 2006 and now serves as the firm’s Managing Shareholder and equity partner, effectively running day-to-day operations while Manning, with nearly six decades in Dallas, Collin, Tarrant, and Denton County courtrooms, remains Senior Shareholder.

Practice Concentration

Manning & Meyers is a single-purpose shop: association law. The firm does not take personal injury, family law, or general civil cases. Instead it handles the recurring legal needs of homeowners associations (HOAs), condominium associations, and property owners associations (POAs) — drafting and amending governing documents (bylaws, declarations, CC&Rs), pursuing delinquent assessment collections, filing and foreclosing association liens, and bringing eviction actions on behalf of associations and, separately, landlords and property investors.

This is a structurally different practice from a firm that represents homeowners against their HOA. Manning & Meyers represents the association side of that relationship — boards, management companies, and the corporate entity of the HOA itself. Prospective clients should understand this distinction clearly: an individual homeowner in a dispute with their association would be looking for opposing counsel, not this firm.

Track Record

The firm states it has handled eviction matters for landlords and property owners for “over fifty years” combined across its attorneys’ careers, and that it currently serves as counsel for what it describes as some of North Texas’s largest homeowners associations. Manning & Meyers does not publish a table of case results, settlement figures, or verdict amounts — consistent with the nature of its work, which is largely collections, lien enforcement, and governance counsel rather than jury-tried litigation with headline verdicts. No independently verifiable financial recovery figures were located for this profile.

Client Voice

Reviews collected on the firm’s own site are from HOA board members and treasurers rather than individual homeowners, consistent with the firm’s client base. One board member described managing a 605-home community and credited the firm’s guidance with helping “overcome some of the pre-existing difficulties.” Another long-tenured client, describing a multi-year relationship through several management-company changes, called the firm’s assessment-collection results a meaningful improvement for the association’s finances. These are firm-solicited and firm-hosted reviews; Awesome Attorneys did not independently verify them against a third-party review platform.

Beyond the Courtroom

Manning & Meyers positions itself as an educational resource for association boards navigating Texas’s community-association statutes, publishing explanatory material on assessment collection procedures and CC&R enforcement aimed at board members who are frequently volunteers without legal training.

Recognition

No independently verifiable peer-review ratings (Martindale-Hubbell AV rating, Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers) were located for either attorney at the time of this profile’s research. The firm’s public materials do not claim such ratings. This is disclosed rather than papered over: association-law practices of this kind are less frequently covered by the major peer-review services than litigation-heavy commercial or personal injury firms.

Texas Legal Backdrop

Texas regulates homeowners associations primarily through the Texas Residential Property Owners Protection Act, codified at Texas Property Code Chapter 209, which governs how associations may levy fines, place liens, and pursue foreclosure over unpaid assessments — including specific notice-and-cure requirements before an association can foreclose. Condominium associations are separately governed by the Texas Uniform Condominium Act, Texas Property Code Chapter 82. Eviction actions in Texas — whether brought by an association, landlord, or investor — proceed under the forcible-entry-and-detainer procedure in Texas Property Code Chapter 24, a summary process designed to resolve possession disputes faster than ordinary civil litigation. None of this is legal advice; a property owner or board member facing a specific dispute should consult counsel about how these statutes apply to their situation.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

Manning & Meyers’s defining trait is specialization: a single-issue practice built around one client type (associations) rather than a general real estate shop that happens to take HOA work on the side. Forty-plus years of Jack Manning’s tenure in the same North Texas courts is a genuine differentiator for an association board weighing which firm knows local judges, local property managers, and the state’s HOA statutes cold.

The honest limitation is the flip side of the specialization: this firm represents the association, not the homeowner. A homeowner reading this profile because they are in a dispute with their own HOA should look elsewhere — and should understand that firms like this one exist precisely because associations, not individual owners, are typically the ones with a standing legal relationship and budget for ongoing counsel. For an HOA board or property manager evaluating counsel, the trade-off to weigh is scope: a firm this focused won’t handle a board’s unrelated commercial real estate purchase or a construction dispute with a developer — that would require a second, more general real estate firm.

Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was compiled from the firm’s own website (hoalegal.com), attorney biography pages for Jack Manning and Casey Meyers, firm-hosted client reviews, LinkedIn and business-directory listings (ZoomInfo, Yelp, Facebook), and State Bar of Texas licensing information. No litigation database, disciplinary record search, or independent verdict/settlement database returned additional public case results as of the research date. All claims about years in practice, bar admission dates, and educational background are drawn from the firm’s own published biographies and are attributed as such.

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