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Roquemore Skierski PLLC: The Dallas Business Litigation Firm Whose Co-Founder Left Big Law to Also Become a Licensed Counselor

Roquemore Skierski PLLC is a Dallas boutique business litigation firm built around owner-operated companies and entrepreneurs — co-founded by a Locke Lord partner who later trained as a licensed professional counselor, and staffed in part by a paralegal who holds a board certification most attorneys never earn.

Roquemore Skierski PLLC — Dallas Business Litigation Attorney At a Glance

Sources: roqski.com (firm website), Texas Super Lawyers attorney profiles, State Bar of Texas member directory, FindLaw client reviews. Compiled August 2026.

Origin: A Big-Law Partner Who Chose Boutique — Twice, in a Way

Doug Skierski graduated from SMU’s Dedman School of Law in 1998 with Order of the Barristers honors and began his career at Locke Lord, one of Texas’s largest firms, where he was eventually named partner. In 2009 he left to start a boutique practice focused on bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, receiverships, and commercial litigation — a move toward smaller-firm, more direct client relationships that has defined his career since. He has spent more than 20 years in that space and is also a Texas Mediator Credentialing Association “Distinguished” mediator and arbitrator, with 17+ years as an active dispute resolution professional. Less typical for a litigation partner: Skierski is also an EMDR-trained Licensed Professional Counselor, a second credential he built alongside his legal practice, with an emphasis on trauma and stress among professionals. He serves the Dallas Bar Association’s Bankruptcy & Commercial Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution sections, is a former Master of the John C. Ford Bankruptcy American Inn of Court, and sits on the boards of the Law Firm Anti-Racism Alliance and the Alliance for Professional Counselors.

Kelvin L. Roquemore, a Tulane University School of Law graduate and Dallas native, brings more than 25 years of business litigation and in-house counsel experience, with a practice built specifically around owner-operated companies and entrepreneurs — partnership and shareholder disputes, breach of contract claims, business fraud matters, and fiduciary duty claims. Outside the firm, Roquemore is active in church and youth mentoring work and is a member of the J.L. Turner Legal Association.

Where the Firm Concentrates

The firm’s practice centers on business litigation for small and mid-size, owner-operated businesses: partnership and shareholder disputes, breach of contract, business torts and fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and commercial real estate litigation, alongside transactional work (formation, M&A, due diligence). Skierski’s individual practice adds a bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, and receiverships dimension the firm applies to distressed-business disputes specifically. The team includes Allison Jacobsen (pre-litigation strategy, real estate litigation, oil and gas disputes, regulatory investigations, and financial-services defense work), Mark Ivanyo (J.D., South Texas College of Law; contract disputes, product liability, and premises-related commercial claims), and Dennis Shawn Stevens (J.D., University of Houston Law Center; 20+ years in business litigation, commercial disputes, and insurance-related claims). Notably, paralegal Alysa S. Grissom holds a Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification in Civil Trial Law — an achievement the firm’s own materials note is held by fewer than 400 paralegals statewide, though it is a paralegal certification and not an attorney board certification; this profile does not use “specialist” language for any of the firm’s attorneys, none of whom hold an individually documented TBLS certification in Civil Trial Law or a business-litigation-adjacent specialty. Readers comparing options can see how this profile fits alongside other Business & Corporate Litigation attorneys covered on Awesome Attorneys.

Notable Work

Awesome Attorneys did not locate independently reported verdict or settlement figures for Roquemore Skierski PLLC in court-record or legal-press sources; the firm’s own marketing describes representative matter types (breach of contract, partnership/shareholder disputes, business fraud) rather than published dollar results, and this profile does not attribute specific case outcomes to the firm beyond what a client review below describes. As with any litigation matter, outcomes are case-specific and past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future matter.

Client Voice

FindLaw hosts verified-client reviews for the firm:

“I hired Roquemore Skierski to help resolve a breach of contract case involving unpaid obligations. Kelvin Roquemore took the time to understand my situation, kept me updated, and helped me reach a fair resolution.” — Khadijah J., verified client, April 2025

A second verified reviewer separately praised Kelvin Roquemore’s “expertise, professionalism, and willingness to go above and beyond.” Awesome Attorneys did not locate a large volume of consumer-facing reviews for the firm beyond these — a thinner public review record than some larger competitors in this category, and noted here directly rather than papered over. No negative reviews were located during this research.

Beyond the Courtroom

Doug Skierski’s parallel career as a Licensed Professional Counselor, with EMDR training focused on trauma and professional stress, is an unusual credential for a commercial litigator and is documented on his own firm bio rather than a third-party marketing source. Kelvin Roquemore’s community work centers on church involvement and youth mentoring in the Dallas area. The firm also sponsors community events, including the Metrocrest Chamber of Commerce’s annual Prayer Breakfast.

Recognition

Doug Skierski’s Texas Super Lawyers “Rising Star” selection (2006–2007) is a peer-nomination-based distinction, and his A/V Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell is similarly peer-reviewed. Paralegal Alysa Grissom’s TBLS Civil Trial Law certification is a genuine, examination-based credential — but it is a paralegal certification, not an attorney board certification, and this profile is explicit about that distinction rather than allowing the association to blur into an implied “specialist” claim for the firm’s lawyers. Neither named founding partner holds an individually documented TBLS board certification in Civil Trial Law or a related commercial-litigation specialty as of this research.

Texas Legal Backdrop

Readers considering Texas business or commercial litigation should understand a few structural rules, presented as general information and not legal advice. Breach of contract claims in Texas — written or oral — generally carry a four-year statute of limitations under Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 16.004 and the residual four-year period at § 16.051, while sale-of-goods disputes instead run under the Uniform Commercial Code’s four-year period at Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 2.725. Fraud and breach-of-fiduciary-duty claims also generally fall under the four-year period in § 16.004(a). Texas recognizes a discovery rule that can delay when the limitations clock starts for claims that are inherently difficult to detect, and the state’s economic loss rule can limit a party’s ability to recast what is really a contract dispute as a tort claim. For complex, high-value commercial disputes, Texas’s relatively new Business Court — created by recent legislation — now handles certain matters above a jurisdictional threshold, a venue option worth knowing about specifically for larger disputes.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

Roquemore Skierski PLLC’s clearest fit is the owner-operated small or mid-size business that wants a boutique firm built specifically around that client profile rather than a large-institution litigation practice — Kelvin Roquemore’s 25 years focused on exactly that client type, paired with Doug Skierski’s big-firm training (Locke Lord partner) and specific bankruptcy/creditors’-rights depth, is a genuine, documented combination. Skierski’s unusual second career as a licensed counselor is a real differentiator for a firm that also does mediation work, where that skill set has direct application.

The honest trade-off: this is a small firm without a large, independently tracked verdict/settlement history, and neither founding partner holds an individual TBLS board certification in civil trial or business litigation — the firm’s certified-specialist credential belongs to a paralegal, not an attorney, and readers should not read the paralegal’s certification as a proxy for attorney-level board certification. Public review volume, while positive, is thinner than some larger Dallas competitors in this category. A business with a very large or highly complex commercial dispute may want to weigh this boutique’s owner-operator focus against firms with a longer public track record of reported verdicts in that specific dispute type.

Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was researched and written independently by Awesome Attorneys’ editorial team in August 2026. Primary source: the firm’s own published website (roqski.com), including attorney biography pages and practice-area descriptions. Secondary sources: Texas Super Lawyers attorney profiles, the State Bar of Texas member directory (which showed no public disciplinary history for the named attorneys as of this research), and verified-client reviews on FindLaw. The firm did not commission, pay for, or pre-approve this article. All credentials and claims are attributed to their sources; past results do not guarantee or predict future outcomes. This article is general information, not legal advice.

Publisher Disclosure & Independence Notice

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