ATTORNEY ADVERTISING NOTICE. This profile was researched and written independently by Awesome Attorneys’ editorial team. It was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed prior to publication by the firm profiled. All case results, recoveries, and recognitions described below are attributed to their sources. Past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future matter. This article is for general information only and is not legal advice; reading it does not create an attorney–client relationship.

REPRESENTATION DISCLOSURE. Stromberg Stock represents both plaintiffs and defendants across its business, bankruptcy, and creditors’ rights litigation practice, and separately represents both plaintiffs and defendants in personal injury and products liability matters outside this profile’s scope. This is standard practice for a full-service commercial litigation firm and is disclosed here directly, consistent with Awesome Attorneys’ editorial policy for adversarial, non-personal-injury practice areas.

Stromberg Stock, PLLC: The Dallas Business Litigation Attorney Firm With Reported Appellate Wins Going Back Two Decades

Stromberg Stock is a Dallas business litigation attorney boutique built around creditors’ rights and commercial disputes — one whose founder’s case citations read like a law school casebook, with published appellate opinions stretching from a 2001 Dallas Court of Appeals win to a 2019 Fifth Circuit decision.

Stromberg Stock, PLLC — Dallas Business Litigation Attorney At a Glance

Sources: strombergstock.com (firm website), State Bar of Texas attorney directory, Super Lawyers, federal court filings. Compiled August 2026.

Origin: A Creditors’-Rights Practice Built on Reported Cases

Mark Stromberg founded his Dallas practice in 2001 after earning his J.D. from SMU’s Dedman School of Law in 1987 and being admitted to the Texas bar that same year. Over more than three decades, his clients have included financial institutions, insurers, leasing companies, and privately-held businesses across multiple industries, with a practice concentrated on creditors’ rights, bankruptcy work representing creditors, and complex commercial litigation in Texas state and federal courts. The firm expanded and took its current name when Brett Field joined in 2006 and Aric Stock joined in 2007.

What distinguishes Stromberg’s record from many commercial litigators is the sheer volume of published, citable appellate and bankruptcy court opinions bearing his name as counsel — not settled cases lost to confidentiality, but reported decisions searchable in any legal database: W.H.V., Inc. v. Associates Housing Finance, LLC (Tex. App.—Dallas 2001), State Bank of Texas v. Granbury Hosp., Inc. (Tex. App.—Dallas 2015 and again 2018), and Life Partners Creditors’ Trust v. Cowley (5th Cir. 2019), among others. Federal court filings confirm Stromberg remains an active bankruptcy practitioner as of 2025, including as local counsel for a creditor in a Northern District of Texas Chapter 11 proceeding.

Where the Firm Concentrates

The firm’s commercial practice covers representation of creditors and lending institutions in bankruptcy and insolvency matters, breach of contract, fraud, and other business-related disputes, and construction-related claims and contractual disputes on both the prosecution and defense side. As the disclosure above notes, the firm represents both plaintiffs and defendants across these matters depending on the engagement — a genuine mixed-representation practice rather than a firm that only ever represents one side of a business dispute. Readers comparing options can see how this profile fits alongside other Business & Corporate Litigation attorneys covered on Awesome Attorneys.

Notable Work

Unlike firms whose case results rely entirely on self-reporting, several of Stromberg’s most significant matters are independently verifiable through published court opinions: W.H.V., Inc. v. Associates Housing Finance, LLC, 43 S.W.3d 83 (Tex. App.—Dallas 2001, pet. denied); State Bank of Texas v. Granbury Hosp., Inc., 2015 Tex. App. LEXIS 11969 and its 2018 companion decision (both Tex. App.—Dallas); and Life Partners Creditors’ Trust v. Cowley (In re Life Partners Holdings, Inc.), 926 F.3d 103 (5th Cir. 2019) — a Fifth Circuit decision, one of the higher appellate courts a business litigator can reach. As with any litigation result, these outcomes are case-specific and past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future matter.

Client Voice

The firm’s published client feedback comes from business clients speaking to litigation outcomes specifically:

“The firm’s ability to continuously evaluate relevant legal theories and facts during the course of a trial, enabled the firm to achieve outstanding results for our company.” — Rod Jordan, General Counsel & Secretary, TLC Companies

“Mark Stromberg is hands-down the best creditor’s rights attorney in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. His knowledge of the bankruptcy code is incredible, and his moral, ethical, and professional conduct is beyond reproach.” — client review, LinkedIn

The first is a named, attributed corporate client testimonial from the firm’s own website — a higher bar of attribution than an anonymous or first-name-only review. The second is drawn from a public LinkedIn recommendation; Awesome Attorneys did not independently verify either reviewer’s identity beyond what’s provided.

Beyond the Courtroom

The firm’s public profile centers on litigation practice and reported case results rather than documented civic board service. Aric Stock separately provides mediation services for claims including wrongful death, catastrophic personal injury, and complex business disputes — a secondary alternative-dispute-resolution role that puts him on the neutral side of disputes rather than as an advocate, distinct from the firm’s litigation practice generally.

Recognition

Mark Stromberg’s Super Lawyers selections (2005–2007, 2013–2025 — a long, largely consecutive run) are peer-nomination-based. The firm’s strongest objective credential, however, is the published case record itself: reported appellate and bankruptcy court opinions are a matter of public record, independently verifiable by anyone with access to a legal database, and represent a different tier of evidence than either a peer-nomination award or a firm’s own self-reported case summaries. Awesome Attorneys did not locate additional third-party rankings (such as Chambers or Best Lawyers) for this firm at the time of research.

Texas Legal Backdrop

Readers considering Texas business litigation, bankruptcy, or creditors’ rights matters should understand a few structural rules, presented as general information and not legal advice. Breach of contract claims in Texas generally carry a four-year statute of limitations (Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 16.004). Bankruptcy proceedings — a core part of this firm’s practice — are governed by federal law (Title 11 of the U.S. Code) and proceed in federal bankruptcy court, with creditors generally required to file proofs of claim by court-set deadlines to preserve their rights to recovery from the estate. Fraudulent transfer claims, relevant to creditors’ rights litigation, are governed in Texas by the Texas Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act (Tex. Bus. & Com. Code ch. 24), which allows creditors to unwind transfers made to hinder, delay, or defraud them. Texas also has a specialized Business Court, created by recent legislation, that now handles certain complex commercial disputes above a jurisdictional threshold.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

Stromberg Stock’s differentiator is a genuinely deep, independently verifiable litigation record in creditors’ rights and commercial disputes — published appellate opinions spanning more than two decades and reaching as high as the Fifth Circuit, plus active, current bankruptcy court practice confirmed by 2025 federal filings. For a business or financial institution facing a creditor’s-rights dispute or complex commercial litigation, that documented appellate track record is a meaningful, verifiable differentiator from firms whose results rely solely on self-reporting.

The honest trade-off is scale and specialization breadth: this is a small firm (2–5 attorneys) concentrated specifically in creditors’ rights and commercial litigation rather than a full-service business law practice, and Awesome Attorneys did not locate board certifications in Civil Trial Law or Business Litigation for the firm’s attorneys. A business needing broader corporate transactional support alongside litigation, or a case requiring board-certified trial specialization specifically, should confirm this firm’s fit directly before retaining.

Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was researched and written independently by Awesome Attorneys’ editorial team in August 2026. Primary sources: the firm’s own published website (strombergstock.com), the State Bar of Texas’s public attorney directory, and public federal court filings confirming Stromberg’s active 2025 bankruptcy practice. Secondary source: Super Lawyers. The case citations referenced in this profile are drawn from the firm’s own published case list and are independently verifiable through standard legal research databases. 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

Facts, figures, and claims in this profile were independently researched from public sources as described in the Methodology & Sourcing section above and are current only as of the research date; they are subject to change without notice, and readers should confirm any detail directly with the firm before relying on it. This notice supplements, and does not replace, the Attorney Advertising Notice at the top of this profile.