Stephen B. Paxson   


Stephen PaxsonSteve is a shareholder and President of Paxson & Associates, P.C. and has been practicing law in excess of thirty-five years.  He has been engaged in a general civil practice involving the negotiation, documentation, as well as the litigation, arbitration, and mediation of construction, banking, real estate and commercial contract matters.  After graduating from the University of Texas at El Paso, Steve served as an officer in the United States Army from 1968 to 1970.  Following the completion of his law degree, he served from 1974 to 1975 as Briefing Attorney for James G. Denton, Associate Justice for the Texas Supreme Court.

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Practice Emphasis

For almost twenty-five years, Steve’s practice has focused on the representation of parties (owners, contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers) in drafting contracts and related forms and handling construction defect claims related to residential and light commercial projects, as well as providing general legal counseling and litigation avoidance strategies. Steve's litigation practice has involved arbitrations and trials in state and federal courts (including bankruptcy court) arising out of breach-of-contract actions, construction claims, real property disputes, consumer claims, banking and collection litigation, as well as employer-employee matters.

Education

St. Mary's University (J.D., with distinction, 1974)
University of Texas at El Paso (B.A., 1968)

Admitted

1980, District of Columbia
1974, Texas
U.S. Supreme Court
Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
U.S. District Court, Northern, Eastern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas

Affiliations

State Bar of Texas (Litigation and Construction Law Sections)
Houston Bar Association (Litigation and Construction Law Sections)
Greater Houston Builders Association

Speaking Engagements

Publications

W. Little & S. Paxson, Builder liability: The Implied Warranties of Good Workmanship and Habitability and the Builder's Statute of Repose, 56 TEX. B.J. (1993).



C. Stephen Tobin     


C. Stephen TobinStephen Tobin joined Paxson & Associates, P.C., in June of 2010 after graduating cum laude from the University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law. Stephen passed the Texas Bar Examination on November 5, 2010, and was sworn into the Texas Bar by Judge R.K. Sandill on November 17 of that same year. During law school, Stephen served the Arizona Law Review as Senior Articles Editor and was elected Vice President of the Student Bar Association in 2008.

In addition, Stephen worked as the Intellectual Property Intern at the Arizona Center for Creative Photography, performing legal research and writing on copyright and trademark matters relating to the licensing of works by notable American photographers such as Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, and others. Stephen was awarded First Prize by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) for a meritorious paper on the subject of copyright law submitted in the 2010 Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition. His paper, Suspension of Internet Service as a Sanction for Copyright Violations: A New Remedy for Peer-to-Peer Infringement, is now being considered for award at the national level.

In his spare time, Stephen is an active percussionist, music educator, composer, and arranger. Stephen holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in music from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he specialized in percussion performance. He subsequently taught percussion and marching band at South Dakota State University for five years. During that time, Stephen performed as a classical percussionist with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, and as a jazz drummer and Latin percussionist with Kind of Blue, the South Dakota Jazz Orchestra, and the Solano Lopez Orquesta.

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Practice Emphasis

Stephen's practice is focused on residential construction and real estate transactions, interior design contracts, employment agreements, loan documents, and deed restrictions. Stephen also participates in dispute resolution and legal research, and handles copyright matters.

Education

University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2010) University of Nevada, Las Vegas (BM, 2002; MM, 2004)

Admitted

2010, Texas

Affiliations

Texas Bar Association (Real Estate and Construction Law Sections)
Houston Bar Association (Real Estate and Construction Law Sections)
Greater Houston Builders Association

Speaking Engagements