Business Litigation; Securities Litigation and Arbitration; Class Actions

Mr. Colleluori has been with Figari & Davenport since its inception. His practice encompasses a wide variety of business and commercial disputes. Mr. Colleluori has represented directors and officers, underwriters, and accountants in securities litigation, Texas banks in lender liability and borrower litigation, and major corporations in fraud, employment, tortious interference, and other commercial disputes. He also has handled professional negligence matters, a significant number of class actions, and numerous other types of commercial lawsuits.

Mr. Colleluori is highly skilled at running large pieces of litigation with difficult factual and legal issues. His innate analytical ability inures to the benefit of his clients on such cases, where he dissects the issues to identify those that require particular attention and emphasis at various stages of the litigation. Mr. Colleluori regularly performs cost benefit analyses in connection with his cases, discussing them with his clients as he assesses the situation and plans strategy and case development.

• Represented a major motion picture exhibitor in a highly-publicized land use dispute, in which an interlocutory summary judgment ruling and favorable appellate decision led to a successful settlement on behalf of the firm’s client.
• In a difficult case involving the breach of an asset purchase agreement , Mr. Colleluori’s client ultimately received in settlement more than ten times the amount of damages originally sought.
• Successfully defended a Texas bank in a multi-million dollar lender liability action that was tried to verdict.

JD, New York University, cum laude, 1984

• Order of the Coif
• Staff Member, New York University Law Review, 1982-1983

BA, Dickinson College, magna cum laude, 1981 Phi Beta Kappa

Listed in The Best Lawyers in America under Business Litigation, 2006-2010

Named a Texas Super Lawyer (Texas Monthly, 2005, 2006, and 2007)

• State Bar of Texas
• Dallas Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• Fellow, Dallas Bar Foundation

Co-Author, Annual Survey of Texas Law – Texas Civil Procedure, SMU Law Review, 1990-2009

Obtaining Evidence/Discovery Under the New Rules, The Texas General Civil Practice Seminar, Stromar Educational Services, December, 1999

Piercing the Corporate Veil and Successor Liability, Advanced Business Litigation Seminar, University of Houston, September, 1995

Admissions and Interrogatories: Drafting Good Paper Discovery in a Complex Case, Advanced Evidence and Discovery Institute, University of Houston, August, 1995 and August, 1994

Service of Process, Pleadings, and Parties, Federal Court Practice Seminar, State Bar of Texas, September, 1994

A Survey of Recent Developments in Litigation Involving a Failed Institution, Civil Litigation Arising From a Failed Institution Seminar, SMU School of Law, November, 1992