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David Moseley practices in the area of corporate and business law representing local and national business entities, serving as general counsel for many of these companies. His clients include a national hotel management company and other hospitality ventures. He represents manufacturers, dealers and suppliers in the automotive industry and a wide range of clients in many different commercial endeavors. Mr. Moseley handles a broad scope of corporate and business transactions and issues including entity structure, dispositions and acquisitions of assets and the companies which own them, real estate transactions and operational legal issues encountered by most businesses. Mr. Moseley has extensive experience with the legal issues facing closely held businesses and their owners in disputes involving the separation of their interests.

Mr. Moseley was, for several years, an Adjunct Instructor at Richland College teaching a course in Law and Ethics and is a frequent speaker and panelist on legal topics which have recently included, “Management Agreements 2003: When is a deal, a deal? and What is the deal?”, The First Annual Hospitality Law Conference (2003); “Hotel Management Agreements: Industry Trends and Today’s Issues,” Third Annual Hospitality Law Conference (2005); “On the Ground in New Orleans: A Case Study in Dealing with Disaster Preparation, Management and Recovery,” Academy of Hospitality Industry Attorneys Spring Symposium (2006); “The State of the Art in Management Contract Negotiations: Key Deal Points for Owners and Managers,” The Academy of Hospitality Attorneys Fall Symposium (2006); and “Avoiding Controversy and Disputes in Hotel Management Agreements: Lessons Learned from Recent Cases and Developments,” The Fifth Annual Hospitality Law Conference (2007).

Mr. Moseley received his bachelor's degree from Baylor University in 1969 and his law degree from Southern Methodist University in 1974, where he has been an alumni representative on the Dean's Long Range Planning Committee. He is a Charter Member of the Academy of Hospitality Industry Attorneys and the Global Alliance of Hospitality Attorneys. He is also a Charter Member of the Multi-Unit Operators Counsels Committee of the American Hotel and Lodging Association.  Mr. Moseley is also a member of the Dallas Bar Association where he is a former section chair, and is a former chair of the Finance Committee of the Board of Trustees of Dallas Baptist University. He has also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Baylor Health Care System Foundation as well as the Boards of Directors of Dallas National Bank and VisionForge Venture Development Company. He is the Editor of the “Texas Section” of the HospitalityLaw.com website. He served as CPT, Infantry, U.S.A.R., 1969-1982. Mr. Moseley is admitted to practice before the U. S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas; the U. S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; the U. S. Supreme Court and the U. S. Tax Court. He was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1974. Mr. Moseley was born in Dallas, Texas in 1946.