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Elena Villaseñor Sullivan is an experienced Franchise Attorney and Business Lawyer dedicated to empowering businesses and franchises with practical, actionable legal advice. As the Managing Member of Endereza Law, she offers tailored legal services across various practice areas, including franchise law, business law, employment law, regulatory compliance, business litigation, and fractional general counsel services. She assists clients navigate franchise disclosure documents, franchise agreements, and dispute resolution, ensuring franchises thrive in a collaborative environment. Additionally, she provides robust support in business formation, corporate governance, contract negotiation, and workforce management.With over 20 years of diverse legal experience, Elena combines a holistic business mindset with innovative problem-solving. Her career includes roles such as General Counsel for Massage Heights Franchising, LLC, where she led the legal department for a growing spa franchise system with over 110 locations across the U.S. and Canada. She also served as an executive in the Compliance Department at USAA, overseeing a team of nearly 30 professionals and mitigating regulatory risks. Earlier in her career, Elena was a commercial trial attorney, first-chairing cases valued up to $150 million and serving as a Partner at one of Texas’s largest law firms.Elena’s professional achievements include recognition as a Texas Super Lawyers Rising Star, Scene in S.A. Women in the Law, and Marquis Who’s Who Honoree. She is also a dedicated advocate for women and children, serving on various boards. Elena’s ability to simplify complex legal issues and provide strategic, business-focused solutions has been a hallmark of her success, making her a trusted legal partner for businesses and franchises.

DANIEL J.T. SCIANO is Chairman of the Board, Vice President and senior attorney at the Law Offices of Tinsman, & Sciano, Inc. With over 36 years of legal experience, Dan has handled a wide variety of civil and personal injury litigation matters throughout his legal career. The cases he handles include complex litigation involving truck/tractor motor vehicle wrecks and collisions including company vehicles which most often result in serious injury or death; claims regarding unreasonably dangerous and defective products involving a vast array of commercial and industrial products, and a panoply of claims brought due to catastrophic injury or death in construction and oil field and oil servicing accidents and other premises accident claims; as well as complex medical malpractice claims. He has a national reputation with regard to his representation of victims (most often small children or elderly adults) catastrophically injured or killed as a result of stove tipovers. He is and has been involved as both co-counsel and local counsel regarding complex consumer class action litigation. His current docket (as it has for more than a decade) is national in scope. He works tirelessly in representing his clients to ensure that safety practices are changed and that defective products that cause serious bodily injury or death are withdrawn from the marketplace in an attempt to help ensure similar tragedies don’t happen again. He speaks and presents regularly and has written many papers on a variety of legal topics for the State Bar of Texas as part of continuing legal education of other lawyers. He has also been featured on national and local TV, radio, and in the written media regarding a diverse range of legal topics.. Professional Background: Admitted to bar, 1981-Texas; 1986-Wisconsin; U.S. Supreme Court-1992; U.S. Court of Appeals-5th Circuit-1982; U.S. District Courts for the Western (1984), Southern (1994), Eastern (1995), and Northern (1995) Districts of Texas. Currently admitted pro hac vice in numerous courts and states throughout the United States.. Education: University of Wisconsin (B.S., summa cum laude, 1978); London School of Economics (Summer of 1980); St. Mary’s University School of Law (J.D., with distinction, 1981 – graduated first in his class); Member, John M. Harlen Society; Senior Associate Editor, St. Mary’s Law Journal, 1980-1981.. Memberships: American Bar Association, State Bar of Texas, State Bar of Wisconsin, Texas Trial Lawyers Association (TTLA) (Director); San Antonio Bar Association (SABA); San Antonio Trial Lawyers Association (SATLA) (Director, 1988-92; Past President, 1994-95); American Association for Justice (AAJ). American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) National Representative for San Antonio. Has served or participated in various State Bar of Texas committees or activities and has served most recently on the Administration of Rules of Evidence Committee (AREC) from 2006-2012.. Awards & Honors: Recognized by Thomson Reuters, publishers of Texas Monthly as one of Texas Super Lawyers in Plaintiff Personal Injury: Product Liability category from 2003-2016, and as one of the Top 100 Texas Super Lawyers in 2013. He has also been recognized by Texas Super Lawyers as one of the Top 50 Texas Super Lawyers in the Central & West Texas Region in 2008 and from 2011-2016. Recognized as one of The Best Lawyers in America, Personal Injury Litigation category, 1995-2016 and selected as the San Antonio Lawyer of the Year in Personal Injury Litigation by Best Lawyers in America, for both 2010 and 2012. Also recognized yearly as one of the Top  Personal Injury lawyers in San Antonio - SA Scene magazine.. Certifications: Board Certified – Personal Injury Trial Law – Texas Board of Legal. Specialization since 1987; Board Certified - Civil Trial Law – Texas Board of Legal. Specialization since 1988; and Certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy since 1989.

Chris Arce was born and raised in Chicago Illinois and moved to South Texas at the age of 12, he attended the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) where he attained his Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice.  He then attained his Juris Doctor from Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas.  He now resides in San Antonio, Texas and handles cases in many of the surrounding cities.

Attorney Velia J. Meza has spent the past 15 years representing clients in the areas of family, crimina, and appellate law in San Antonio, Bexar County and throughout Texas.

As the leader of the San Antonio branch of Naman, Howell, Smith & Lee, PLLC, Attorney Larry D. Warren offers high-quality legal service in transportation law, tractor/trailer accidents, construction injuries, and commercial litigation. For nearly 30 years, Attorney Warren has provided Texas businesses with guidance and representation. He is Board Certified in Personal Injury Law, assuring all clients that they are in strong, capable hands.. Above all, Attorney Warren is an experienced trial lawyer—he has tried over 20 death and brain injury cases involving trucks, and over a dozen commercial and construction cases each. If you are a business in need of commercial representation, do not hesitate to contact Attorney Warren at Naman, Howell, Smith & Lee, PLLC.

As a South Texas native who grew up in Maverick County, Soledad Valenciano appreciates and understands Texas’ diverse culture and legal environment. She also understands the importance of individual property rights. Soledad represents business, farm and ranch owners in eminent domain, condemnation and partition proceedings. Soledad has represented clients in high-voltage transmission line, pipeline, water line, railroad and road expansion condemnation cases across Central and South Texas.  She has also negotiated numerous transmission line easements, pipeline easements, water line easements and possession and use agreements with various condemning also represents affected land owners before the Texas Public Utility Commission in select CCN routing cases. In addition to condemnation and real estate litigation, Soledad represents clients in various industries, including health, retail, oil field services, financial services and insurance, in civil disputes involving breach of contract, common law fraud, deceptive trade practices and negligence as well as in employment litigation matters. Soledad Valenciano also represents clients in trust and probate litigation, arbitration and select appellate matters.