About Mark A. Alexander, P.C.
A Dallas firm concentrated in oil and gas investment fraud — recovering investments for defrauded investors since 2007.
“This firm was built deliberately: one lawyer, a dedicated staff, deep in each client’s case, accountable to every client by name. When your savings are on the line, that is exactly the firm you want.”
— Mark Alexander
Mark A. Alexander, P.C. is a Dallas commercial litigation firm whose practice is concentrated in oil and gas investment fraud. Mark Alexander has practiced law for more than 40 years; since 2007, the Firm has represented more than 210 investors throughout the United States who were defrauded of their hard-earned money by unscrupulous oil and gas promoters — and has obtained substantial judgments and settlements on their behalf, with sustained work past judgment to collect what the courts have awarded. The Firm practices from The Gild, at 8150 North Central Expressway in Dallas, and represents clients across Texas and nationwide in state courts and federal proceedings.
How This Practice Began
The Firm’s concentration in oil and gas fraud did not begin on the investor side. Nearly two decades ago, Mark Alexander was asked to defend several Texas oil and gas companies, their control persons, and their salesmen in lawsuits brought by investors from all over the United States. That work put him inside the machinery of these offerings — how the programs are structured, how the sales operations run, how the money moves, and where the line falls between a legitimate venture that failed and a scheme that was built to deceive.
It is one thing to study how the dark side of this industry works. It is another to have seen it from the inside. When the Firm turned its concentration to representing defrauded investors, it brought that insider’s understanding with it — and it has informed every investor’s case since. The Firm knows what a fraudulent promoter’s files look like, which representations were reckless, if not outright misrepresentations the day they were made, and how the defense will try to explain the representations and money away, because Mark Alexander has stood on that side of the courtroom.
What Sets the Firm Apart
Investors comparing firms deserve substance, not slogans. These are the specific, verifiable credentials behind this practice:
- A record of recognized results. Mark Alexander is a Life Member of both the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum — memberships limited to attorneys who have obtained verdicts and settlements at those levels. Less than 1% of the attorneys across the United States are members of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum.
- The profession’s highest peer rating. He holds Martindale-Hubbell’s AV Preeminent rating — the highest rating for legal ability and ethical standards, awarded through the confidential evaluations of judges and fellow attorneys.
- The judiciary’s trust. Texas courts have appointed Mr. Alexander to serve as facilitator in complex commercial matters — appointments courts reserve for lawyers whose judgment and integrity they rely on.
- Federal-court depth. The Firm’s cases have included litigation in the federal courts against formidable opponents — including successful litigation opposite the United States Government.
- Preparation as a philosophy. Where the record allows, cases are positioned for summary judgment. In Steve McMaster, et al. v. Rock Wall Oil Company, et al., in the 160th Judicial District Court, Dallas County, Texas (Cause No. DC-07-00232-H), the Firm successfully represented ten plaintiffs in complex oil and gas securities fraud litigation involving over $1,250,000 — won on a motion for summary judgment, a $1.3 million judgment for the Firm’s clients without a trial. The same preparation drives favorable settlements in the many cases that resolve before one.
A Firm Built Deliberately Small
Mark A. Alexander, P.C. is not a department inside a large firm, and that is by design. The lawyer you meet at the first consultation is the lawyer who investigates your case, drafts your pleadings, argues your motions, and tries your case if trial comes. Your calls are returned by your attorney — not routed through associates you have never met. Your questions get answers in plain language, not memoranda.
The structure has a second advantage that matters just as much: selectivity. The Firm keeps its caseload deliberately limited, so that every matter receives genuine attention — the kind of attention that builds records thorough enough to possibly win your case on a summary judgment. In fraud litigation, where cases are won on documents and preparation, a focused practice is not a limitation. It is the point.
Who the Firm Serves
The Firm’s clients have included business owners, attorneys, and retired professional athletes — successful, careful people who were reached by schemes professionally engineered to deceive exactly such investors. Clients come from across Texas and throughout the United States; because so many fraudulent offerings are organized and sold from Texas, out-of-state investors regularly find that their claims belong in Texas courts, which is precisely where the Firm practices.
The Firm also represents investors together when a single scheme has harmed many. Coordinated multi-plaintiff litigation — like the ten-investor securities fraud matter the Firm won on summary judgment in Dallas County — lets defrauded investors share the strength of a unified record while each client’s individual claim is fully preserved. Importantly, in these cases, the Firm divides its fee among the plaintiffs, saving them substantial amounts of attorney fees and costs.
Why Dallas Matters in These Cases
Geography is strategy in oil and gas fraud litigation. Dallas is where a striking number of these offerings are conceived, papered, and sold — which means Dallas County’s district courts are where many of these cases belong, and where the Firm’s public results were earned. The matters on the Firm’s Case Histories page were litigated in the 160th, 192nd, and 68th Judicial District Courts of Dallas County and in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas — the very courts where a defrauded investor’s claim is likely to land.
The Firm practices from The Gild, at 8150 North Central Expressway in Dallas — minutes from those courthouses, in the city where the witnesses, the records, and at times where the defendants’ assets are found. For an out-of-state investor, that local footing is exactly what you are hiring: counsel who knows the local courts in the jurisdiction where your case will be fought.
The Firm’s Practice
The core of the practice is oil and gas investment fraud recovery: unregistered and fraudulently sold securities, working interest and royalty fraud, Ponzi schemes and commingled drilling programs, investor representation in bankruptcy proceedings, and post-judgment collection. Each area is covered in depth on its own page of this site.
Beyond energy fraud, Mark A. Alexander, P.C. handles complex commercial litigation across Texas — contract disputes, partnership and fiduciary matters, and business fraud — through its commercial litigation practice at commerciallitigationtexas.com. For investors, that breadth matters: fraud cases frequently sprawl into contract, fiduciary, and business-tort claims, and the Firm litigates all of them.
How the Firm Works With Clients
Candor first. From the initial consultation, you get an honest evaluation: whether the facts suggest fraud, what remedies may be available, what the obstacles are, and whether pursuing the claim makes economic sense. If the answer is no, you will hear it plainly — before you spend money learning it the hard way. The firm does not want anyone to spend good money after bad.
Then communication. Legal matters involving your savings are stressful, and silence makes them worse. The Firm is committed to prompt responses, regular case updates, and direct access to your attorney — with developments explained in plain language so every decision you make is an informed one.
Fees
In nearly all cases, the Firm works on an hourly basis with a retainer. In rare cases, the Firm may agree to a hybrid arrangement — a reduced hourly rate combined with a percentage of the recovery. Every fee arrangement is set out in a written agreement before the work begins, so the client knows exactly how the engagement is structured.
What the First Weeks of an Engagement Look Like
Clients deserve to know what they are stepping into. An engagement begins with a written fee agreement, so the structure of the relationship is settled before the work starts. Then the case-building begins: a full review of your offering documents, subscription agreements, and payment records; investigation of the promoter, the operator, and the wells through Railroad Commission files, Secretary of State records, and securities filings; and identification of every viable claim and every viable defendant — including the ones with assets worth pursuing, because a claim against an empty shell recovers nothing.
Out of that investigation comes strategy: whether the case points toward an early demand, toward a bankruptcy proceeding already underway, or toward litigation prepared for a possible summary judgment. You will understand the recommended path, the reasoning behind it, and the realistic range of outcomes — in plain language — before major steps are taken.
Frequently Asked Questions
Because of who actually does the work. At a large firm, an oil and gas fraud case may be staffed down to junior lawyers learning the industry on your retainer. Here, more than 210 investor representations of concentrated experience walk into the courtroom personally, on every matter. In document-driven fraud litigation, that concentration is the advantage.
They are the same firm — Mark A. Alexander, P.C. — with two concentrations: oil and gas investment fraud, covered on this site, and complex commercial litigation across Texas, covered at commerciallitigationtexas.com. Many fraud cases draw on both.
You describe the investment; you get a candid assessment — whether the facts suggest fraud, which remedies may be available, and whether the claim makes economic sense to pursue. It is confidential, it carries no obligation, and you will leave the conversation knowing where you stand.
Very possibly. Risk disclosures protect honest ventures from honest failure — they do not license fraud. If the promoter misrepresented or concealed material facts, sold unregistered securities, or diverted your money from its promised use, boilerplate acknowledgments do not erase those claims. What you signed is the beginning of the analysis, not the end of it.
No — but the forum changes. When a court appoints a receiver, investors’ recoveries typically flow through that proceeding as the receiver marshals and distributes assets, a process that may runs a year or two. Having counsel who knows these proceedings protects your claim inside the process — and identifies whether viable claims exist against parties outside it.
Promptly. Limitations periods apply to fraud claims — the safest course is to act within three years of the sale — and the practical clock runs faster still: evidence fades, and promoters’ assets have a way of moving beyond reach. If you suspect fraud, have the investment reviewed now, even if your file feels incomplete.
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Mark A. Alexander, P.C.
The Gild
8150 North Central Expressway, 10th Floor
Dallas, Texas 75206
Phone: (972) 544-6968
Fax: (972) 421-1500
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