Elijah Stone represents financial institutions and large corporations in complex financial disputes and insurance coverage matters in federal and state courts across the country. He has experience in all stages of litigation, including discovery, dispositive motions, trial preparation, and post-judgment appeals.
His financial litigation experience includes defending major financial institutions against a wide array of claims related to structured financial products, such as residential mortgage-backed securities and student loan securitizations. Elijah also has experience representing policyholders in complicated insurance coverage disputes under directors and officers (D&O) and commercial general liability policies. This includes appellate experience drafting briefs on issues of first impression under Texas insurance law to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
On behalf of the Firm's Laredo Project, Elijah has represented victims of persecution before the Board of Immigration Appeals.
Experience
Additional Publications
- June 7, 2019
Why Label Talent? Leveraging the Strengths of Every Generation in a Legal Practice, Dallas Bar Association - July 1, 2018
Bankruptcy Treatment of LLC Member Interests, Headnotes, Dallas Bar Association - June 1, 2017
Soggy Debt: The Seventh Circuit Widens the Split on FDCPA Liability for Filing Time-Barred Claims in Bankruptcy, 70 SMU L. Rev. 213 (2017)
Speaking Engagements
- June 5, 2019
Dallas Bar Association, Bankruptcy Section, ethics CLE presentation
- Southern Methodist University (J.D. cum laude 2018; Managing Editor, SMU Law Review); The University of Texas at Tyler (B.B.A. in Accounting summa cum laude 2015)
- Texas and U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- Extern to Judge Harlin D. Hale, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Texas (Summer 2016)