Specialties
Shumway Van s a full-service San Antonio, Texas law firm. Our San Antonio lawyers primarily practice out of our offices in San Antonio; however, we are able to assist clients throughout the state of Texas with a wide variety of legal situations. Our law firm primarily focuses on litigation, but engages in virtually every area of the law including complex corporate, business, and real property related transactions.
Each attorney in San Antonio practices in one or more of our law firm's many practice groups and is dedicated to practicing law in an effective, efficient and cost-conscious manner. In addition to the legal services that many of our lawyers offer to business and real estate clients, we have attorneys in San Antonio that practice family law (including divorce), immigration law, bankruptcy (debtor and creditor), personal injury, and a variety of other areas of law.
History
Established in 2008.
Our law firm was formed in 2008 in response to the worldwide recession. The partners, all of which were working in different areas of law, decided that clients needed 1) better service from lawyers; 2) a more cost-conscious approach to the practice of law; and 3) lawyers who care about the interests of their clients more than their own interests.
A few years after its inception, our law firm opened offices in San Antonio to serve the good people of Texas. Because of the breadth of our law firm's presence, our lawyers in San Antonio have been able to offer a wide variety of legal services since the doors opened. Each year our firm grows its influence in San Antonio in order to better serve the needs of our clients there.
Meet the Business Owner: Douglas J.
Douglas J. Shumway is a licensed attorney in the state of Utah and has a wide-ranging transactional practice, with significant experience in corporate law, securities law, commercial and land financing transactions, construction loans, commercial and residential development and complex purchase and sales of assets.
Additionally, Mr. Shumway represents both landlords and tenants in commercial, industrial and retail leases, lessors and lessees in ground lease transactions, and investors and developers in the structuring of limited liability companies and corporations and securities related issues associated therewith.
Mr. Shumway has been heavily involved in the real estate industry since 2003, and since 2008 (arguably the heart of the most recent recession) he has been lead transactional counsel on a significant number of real estate related transactions.
Douglas also acts as general legal counsel for a number of local, regional and national businesses.