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DOUGLAS V. McNEEL

Practice Areas:

Commercial Real Estate
Business Organizations
Business Transactions

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Office: (210) 225-1655
Fax: (210) 225-8999
Email: dvmcneel@beclaw.com

Martindale Hubbell Ratings DOUGLAS V. McNEEL

Doug McNeel has been a partner with Barton, East & Caldwell, L.L.P. since 2003. His practice includes commercial real estate transactions (including land acquisition, commercial development, residential development and disposition of properties), entity formation and planning (including limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations), conversion and merger of entities, financial transactions (including loan document review and negotiation and the issuance of opinion letters), asset purchase contracts, construction contracts and other business contracts and transactions.

Mr. McNeel has been named one of San Antonio’s “Best Lawyers” by Scene in S.A. Magazine in the area of Real Estate (2008 and 2009).

LAW RELATED EXPERIENCE:

Barton, East & Caldwell, L.L.P., Partner, Aug. 2003 – Present

Alamo Title Company, Title Examiner, Feb. – Nov. 1997

McNeel Mediation Service, Mediator, 1994 - 1997

Gresham, Davis, Gregory, Worthy & Moore, Associate Attorney, 1983-1986

Bexar County District Attorney, Appellate Attorney & County Court Prosecutor, 1978-1980

Maebius & Duncan, Inc., Law Clerk and Associate Attorney, June 1978 – Dec.1978

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION:

Attorney at Law, State of Texas, 1978
Mediation Training - 150 hours

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

State Bar of Texas (Real Estate, Probate & Trust Law Section)
San Antonio Bar Association

LEGAL EDUCATION:

Washington and Lee University, School of Law (J.D. 1978)
Honors: Third best brief in Moot Court competition

OTHER GRADUATE EDUCATION:

Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (M.A. in Theological Studies 2001)

UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION:

Washington and Lee University (B.S., Natural Sciences and Mathematics 1974)
Honors: Cum laude.

MUSIC BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

Mr. McNeel is a songwriter, singer, recording artist and owner of a music publishing and recording company, McNeel Music, LLC d/b/a Great Awakening Productions. Mr. McNeel’s first CD, “The Great Awakening” is scheduled to be released October, 2009. For more information visit: www.dougmcneel.com.

0THER EXPERIENCE:

Religion Instructor – TMI, 1999-2003
Writer - Completed two manuscripts (unpublished) on the history of cosmology and the philosophical and theological implications of the Big Bang cosmology

COMMUNITY SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES:

San Antonio Regional Water Resource Study Implementation Advisory Task Force (1986-1987)
First Presbyterian Church, San Antonio (Elder, Deacon, Teacher)
San Geronimo Valley Alliance in association with Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance