Adams & Graham, LLP: Attorney Profile

WILLIAM L. POPE

William L. Pope is a partner in Adams & Graham, L.L.P. He practices primarily in the areas of:

Business/Commercial Litigation and Counsel
Labor/Employment Law
Healthcare Law (Defense and Transactional)
IRS Tax Dispute and U.S. Tax Court Representation

Judge Pope provides counsel and representation in the area of commercial and business related litigation/transactions to clients and institutions throughout South Texas. These services include representation and counsel in business formation, sales/acquisitions, licensing and regulatory issues, employee claims/relations, corporate dissolutions, shareholder oppression/discrimination litigation, mergers, partnerships and transactional review/litigation.

He practices before the Texas Workers' Compensation Commission in the defense of workers' compensation injury, death, and medical necessity treatment claims made against insurance carriers and self-insured entities, primarily school districts and municipalities. His employment law practice also includes the representation of employers in non-subscriber employee injury claims, wrongful discharge, age discrimination and retaliation litigation.

Judge Pope represents the region's three largest health systems as well as South Texas' physicians and group medical practices in defense of healthcare liability claims as well as a myriad of institutional, compliance and commercial matters including staff credentialling, licensure, business establishment and transactions, regulatory and managed care issues, practice sale/acquisition, employment matters and defense of medicaid/medicare fraud as well as kickback charges.

He represents individuals and businesses before the Internal Revenue Service and United States Tax Court in relation to relief from levies, seizures, garnishments as well as negotiation of offers in compromise, payment plans and settlement of disputed claims.

Judge Pope is a qualified mediator in Texas and will provide all forms of alternative dispute resolution services, either upon agreement of the involved parties or by court referral.

He has served as a Municipal Court Judge and State Magistrate for twenty years. He served two terms as a member of the State Bar of Texas' Judiciary Relations Committee. Judge Pope was honored by the Texas House of Representatives for his many years of service to the judiciary.

A 1986 graduate of Baylor Law School, he joined Adams & Graham, L.L.P. that same year. Prior to law school, Mr. Pope pursued pre-med and later medical education at Texas Southmost College and the University of North Texas Health Science Center (College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery). He is admitted to practice before all Texas state courts, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas and the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.