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At a Glance
| Firm | Rochelle McCullough, LLP |
| Founded | 1993, by Bryan L. Rochelle and Kevin D. McCullough |
| Office | Bank of America Plaza, 901 Main Street, Dallas, TX 75202 |
| Focus | Corporate bankruptcy, trustee/receiver representation, creditors’ rights, commercial litigation |
| Notable claim | Firm-stated multigenerational insolvency tradition stretching back more than 65 years |
| Fee structure | Not publicly posted; contact firm directly |
Origin & Founder History
Rochelle McCullough, LLP was founded in 1993 by Bryan L. Rochelle and Kevin D. McCullough and has grown into a multidisciplinary firm spanning bankruptcy, commercial litigation, and personal injury, with additional office locations in Fort Worth, Indianapolis, and Hot Springs alongside its Dallas headquarters. Kevin D. McCullough is a member of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees. The firm describes a multigenerational tradition in insolvency work “stretching back more than 65 years” — longer than the firm’s own 1993 founding date, indicating the claim traces individual attorneys’ prior career experience rather than the firm entity itself.
Practice Concentration
The firm’s bankruptcy practice centers on representing court-appointed fiduciaries — Chapter 7 and 11 trustees and receivers — in the liquidation and operation of debtor entities, including prosecuting estate causes of action such as fraudulent transfers and preferences (recoveries under Bankruptcy Code Chapter 5) to increase returns to the estate and its creditors. The firm also represents official and unofficial creditors’ committees in Chapter 11 cases and has developed a specific niche negotiating out-of-court workouts as an alternative to formal bankruptcy for both companies and high-net-worth individuals.
Track Record
The firm’s published case history includes an Arkansas jury awarding $47.4 million to a bankruptcy trustee on a fraudulent-transfer claim related to the sale of rights to the Retro Television Network, and a $34.8 million damages assessment against a Houston oil company for wrongfully using a leased Gulfstream V jet in connection with a gold-smuggling scheme, in violation of an aircraft lease with Southlake Aviation LLC. These are substantial, specifically named case results; Awesome Attorneys did not independently verify docket details beyond the firm’s own published case summaries.
Client Voice
Awesome Attorneys did not locate individually attributed, third-party-verified consumer client reviews for the firm as of this profile’s research; its practice serving trustees, receivers, and creditors’ committees is institutional in nature and does not typically generate the same volume of public consumer review activity as a retail-facing practice.
Beyond the Courtroom
The firm’s attorney roster includes Gregory H. Bevel, J. Mark Chevallier, Joseph F. Postnikoff, Shannon S. Thomas, William J. Cernosek III, and Michael T. Pipkin alongside founders Rochelle and McCullough — a bench of named partners reflecting sustained institutional depth in bankruptcy and creditor-rights work across three decades.
Recognition
No Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification was independently confirmed for either founding partner as of this profile’s research. The firm’s professional standing rests instead on its documented litigation results — including the two large verdicts described above — and Kevin McCullough’s National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees membership. This is disclosed directly rather than assumed.
Texas Legal Backdrop
Fraudulent transfer claims, central to the firm’s stated trustee-representation work, are governed by Bankruptcy Code § 548 (a two-year federal lookback period) and can also reach further back under Texas’s Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act, Texas Business and Commerce Code Chapter 24, which a trustee can invoke through the Bankruptcy Code’s state-law “strong-arm” powers under § 544(b). Preference actions, which claw back certain payments made to creditors shortly before a bankruptcy filing, are governed separately by 11 U.S.C. § 547 and generally reach payments made within 90 days of filing (one year for insiders). None of this is legal advice; a party facing a fraudulent-transfer or preference claim should consult counsel about the specific lookback periods and defenses that may apply.
Awesome Attorneys Assessment
Rochelle McCullough’s differentiator is a documented track record of substantial, specifically named litigation results in complex fraudulent-transfer and commercial-dispute matters — the $47.4 million and $34.8 million figures are concrete, checkable outcomes rather than vague marketing claims, and the firm’s multi-office footprint (Dallas, Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Hot Springs) suggests genuine regional and cross-jurisdictional capacity.
The honest trade-off is that this is an institutional, trustee-and-creditor-facing practice — not built for an individual consumer’s straightforward Chapter 7 filing, and the firm’s own multi-practice-area structure (bankruptcy alongside personal injury and general commercial litigation) means a prospective client should confirm they’re being routed to attorneys with genuine bankruptcy-specific depth rather than a generalist. For a trustee, receiver, or creditor navigating a complex estate-recovery matter, the firm’s specific track record here is a real, checkable credential.
Methodology & Sourcing
This profile was compiled from the firm’s own website (romclaw.com), its practice-area and case-results pages, Yelp and Facebook business listings, and FindLaw’s firm directory. The $47.4 million and $34.8 million case results are drawn from the firm’s own published case-summary pages and are attributed as such; Awesome Attorneys did not independently verify these figures against court records.
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