Professional Development Center

With the 2025 Regular Session of the Texas Legislature under our belts, TAB will release its contracts package for the 2025 – 2027 license cycle on September 1, 2025. This is your opportunity to learn about the new required Texas-specific forms and revisions to existing contracts. Talk with two of the attorneys who have been instrumental in the writing and updating of TAB’s form contracts and other industry forms. The new contracts package is mandatory to comply with the 2025 legislative session.

About Donald Shelton

Donald Shelton is a managing shareholder of the firm and concentrates his practice in the trial and arbitration of commercial and residential construction law disputes, insurance defense, mechanic's lien laws, bond claims, commercial landlord/tenant disputes, homeowner association disputes, and title insurance defense.  Mr. Shelton also devotes a significant amount of his practice to transaction events associated with his clients such as construction contracts, leases, liens, purchase/sales contracts, independent contractor agreements, subcontracts, bonds, deeds, deed restrictions, and first and third-party warranty review.  Mr. Shelton primarily represents developers, insurance carriers, third-party warranty companies, volume and custom homebuilders, remodelers, commercial contractors and subcontractors, engineers and architects throughout Texas in various aspects of their businesses.

About Tyler Hood

Since graduating from Texas A&M School of Law in 2015, Tyler Hood represents all levels of contractors, land developers and design professionals with respect to every aspect of construction. His practice includes litigation as well as general risk management for small local clients as well as publicly traded companies. He has litigated nearly every aspect of a construction project including construction defects, warranty disputes, contract disputes, payment claims, mechanic’s and materialmen’s liens, professional errors and/or omissions and homeowners’ association claims. In the past five years he has litigated roughly twenty claims to either final judgment or award. Tyler also has extensive experience defending general contractors while simultaneously pursuing third-party claims against responsible third-parties and procurement of insurance coverage for his clients.