Christopher Moser: The Dallas Bankruptcy Attorney Who Also Runs the Companies He Rescues

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At a Glance

Origin & Founder History

Christopher J. Moser earned his B.A. from Louisiana State University in 1979 and his J.D. with distinction from Mississippi College in 1985. He has headed the Bankruptcy/Financial Institutions Section of Quilling, Selander, Lownds, Winslett & Moser (originally founded in 1993 as Quilling, Selander, Cummiskey & Lownds) since that section’s inception, and the firm’s 2019 name change to add “Winslett and Moser” formally recognized his and Gregory K. Winslett’s contributions as the firm grew from three founding attorneys to nearly 50 lawyers.

Practice Concentration

Moser’s bankruptcy practice spans the full range of Chapter 7, 11, and 13 matters: representing trustees, debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, and privately-held corporations. His role extends beyond advocacy into direct court appointment — he serves as a Panel Chapter 7 Trustee for the Eastern District of Texas, Sherman Division, and has been appointed Chapter 11 Trustee in both the Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas, a distinction that means he has personally operated distressed businesses under court authority, including (per his own attorney biography) an online dating company, a 300-plus-horse farm, a real estate brokerage, a telecommunications company, and several oil and gas companies.

Track Record

Moser’s Chapter 11 trustee work has involved operating numerous businesses from 1986 to the present, a track record that speaks to operational as well as legal bankruptcy experience — a genuinely uncommon combination, since most bankruptcy attorneys advise on reorganization without also holding the fiduciary trustee role that requires actually running a business. Many of his Chapter 7 cases involve IRS tax issues specifically. These are the attorney’s own documented case history and court appointments rather than independently tallied outcome statistics.

Client Voice

Awesome Attorneys did not locate individually attributed, third-party-verified client reviews for Moser specifically; his practice serves institutional and business clients (financial institutions, real estate and construction companies) more than individual consumer filers, which typically generates fewer public consumer reviews than a high-volume consumer bankruptcy practice.

Beyond the Courtroom

Moser has spoken at the University of Texas Consumer Bankruptcy Seminar on multiple occasions (2009, 2017) and at the Annual Seminar for Chapter 7 Panel Trustees Region 6 across several years, including sessions on identifying net operating losses in Chapter 7 and handling medical records and privacy issues in trustee administration. In 2017 he was a featured speaker for a State Bar of Texas video seminar training attorneys handling pro-bono bankruptcy cases through the “Bankruptcy Clinic-in-a-Box” program, and he co-authored a published article on client confidentiality and attorney-client privilege issues specific to representing bankruptcy trustees.

Recognition

Christopher J. Moser’s dual Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification — in both Business Bankruptcy Law and Consumer Bankruptcy Law, held continuously since 1990 — is a genuine, independently verified, and unusually long-standing credential. He was also named to the 2025 Best Lawyers in America list, one of seven QSLWM attorneys recognized that year, and was recognized as Dallas’s “Best Bankruptcy Lawyer” by D Magazine in both 2012 and 2013. These are attributed to their respective conferring organizations.

Texas Legal Backdrop

Chapter 11 trustees in Texas operate under 11 U.S.C. § 1104, appointed by the court when fraud, dishonesty, or gross mismanagement is shown, or when appointment is otherwise in the interest of creditors — a relatively unusual step, since most Chapter 11 cases proceed with a debtor-in-possession rather than a trustee. Chapter 7 panel trustees, appointed under 28 U.S.C. § 586, are responsible for liquidating a debtor’s non-exempt assets and distributing proceeds to creditors according to the priority scheme set out in 11 U.S.C. § 507. None of this is legal advice; a business or creditor involved in a Texas bankruptcy matter should consult counsel about the specific procedural posture of their case.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

Moser’s differentiator is genuinely rare: 35 years of continuous dual TBLS certification combined with direct, hands-on trustee experience actually operating businesses in bankruptcy — from a horse farm to an oil and gas company — gives him a practical understanding of distressed-business operations that a purely advisory bankruptcy attorney typically lacks.

The honest trade-off is that this practice, and the firm around it, is built for complex commercial and institutional bankruptcy matters — large financial institutions, real estate and construction companies, trustee-administered estates — rather than the straightforward individual Chapter 7 filing a consumer debtor with modest, uncomplicated debts might need. A consumer filer with a simple case is likely better served by a firm built specifically around high-volume individual filings; a business, creditor, or party to a complex Chapter 11 matter is exactly this practice’s audience.

Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was compiled from the firm’s own website (qslwm.com), Christopher J. Moser’s detailed attorney biography page, the firm’s name-change announcement and firm-overview pages, State Bar of Texas licensing and certification records, and Super Lawyers listings. Trustee appointments and business-operation claims are drawn from the attorney’s own published biography and are attributed as such.

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