About Donald Stull

“Mike” immigrated from Pennsylvania in 1976 after graduating from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) with a BS in Management Sciences. In a college where everything but Shakespeare was taught with numbers, he was elected the Grand Marshal (President of the Student Body) and learned the art of agreement by and with numbers; an art form he loves to this day.

In 1979, he met and married Victoria H. Gallagher when both were still civilians. After she finished law school and started her practice in Tomball, he found that he liked her job better than his, so he enrolled in law school and received his Juris Doctorate, graduating Magna Cum Laude from the University of Houston Law School in 1990. During his time in law school, having started at South Texas and ended at the University of Houston Law School, he continued his “arguing,” twice being selected to represent the school on its American Bar Association, Moot Court Team. In 1998, after years as a commercial litigator in downtown Houston, he made the decision to move his work to Tomball and join his wife in the practice of law.

Mike is admitted to practice in Texas by the Texas Supreme Court. He also is licensed to practice before all of the Texas Federal Courts, including Bankruptcy, and before the Federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Today Mike’s practice centers on the courthouses surrounding Harris and Montgomery Counties. Where Victoria is more adept at putting the deals together, Mike is better suited for when the deal falls apart. The more complicated the situation, the more comfortable he becomes. In truth, and a point which even his own Mother finds hard to believe, his most enjoyable and best work involves spending time in the legal libraries and writing the necessary litigation documents.

Along the litigation way, Mike has learned that you don’t always have to “go nuclear” to get matters resolved. He became a certified mediator for both civil and family matters. He is, to the best of his knowledge, the only mediator in this part of the world who is also certified by USA Hockey as a hockey referee.