Dawson & Sodd, LLP Information

Dawson & Sodd, LLP traces its roots to 1894. “Condemnation” or “eminent domain” cases are those where the government or private entities like pipeline and power line companies take a landowner’s property for their own use, making what is often a very low offer of compensation for that taking. Under the leadership of Glenn Sodd and legendary Baylor law professor emeritus Matt “Mad Dog” Dawson, the firm has risen to prominence over the last 50 years as eminent-domain practitioners helping landowners. We never represent the government or others looking to seize private property. Our clients include the widest range of improved and unimproved property owners. We have handled cases involving virtually every kind of property, ranging from commercial, office, and industrial buildings, raw development land, convenience stores, mines, oil and gas leases, water rights, natural gas processing sites, and recreational, farm, or ranch land. Our experience includes projects where the taking is for virtually every type of condemnation project, including new or expanded roads and highways, new and expanded power lines, every kind of pipeline easement, land underneath a natural gas processing plant, new railroads, new lakes, the Super Conducting Super Collider, and sport venues like the Texas Ranger baseball stadium and the Dallas Cowboys football stadium.