Darryl V.
Pratt
A Texas attorney and Certified Public Accountant with nearly 30 years of practice. Founder of Pratt Law Group, PLLC d/b/a Lone Star Counsel. Standing counsel to Texas families, business owners, physicians, franchise investors, and multi-generational estates.
I spent the first decade of my career inside the country's largest accounting and law firms — KPMG, Arthur Andersen, and later a Dallas partnership with a book of substantial closely-held businesses. I learned how big-firm sophistication is built, and I also learned what it costs a client: rotating associates, matters passed hand-to-hand, and advice shaped as much by billable hour targets as by the client's actual situation.
I opened this firm because Texas families and business owners deserve the same technical rigor without those trade-offs. One senior counsel. Every matter, personally. Counsel that continues into the next generation, without a new introduction each time.
Being dually licensed as both a Texas attorney and a CPA is unusual — and it matters. Most tax matters are legal matters. Most legal matters have tax and financial consequences. When those disciplines are handled by one desk, the strategy is tighter, the drafting is cleaner, and the client is never caught between two advisors pointing at each other.
This is a practice built on patience and trust. If that resonates with how you make decisions, I would welcome the conversation.
What every engagement is built on.
Two Disciplines, One Desk
Legal and tax counsel from a single credentialed attorney — Esq. and CPA — so strategy is integrated, not stitched together after the fact.
The Long Retainer
Most of our clients have been with the firm for over a decade. That is the standard we build toward from the first conference: counsel measured in decades, not matters.
Quiet Sophistication
We do not advertise our matters. Our work is known by referral, by outcome, and by the endurance of the structures we draft.
Since 1997, in chapters.
- No. 011994
The University of Oklahoma
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.).
- No. 021997
Oklahoma City University School of Law
Juris Doctor (J.D.). Admitted to practice by the State Bar of Texas.
- No. 031997
Certified Public Accountant
Licensed CPA in Texas and Oklahoma. Dual credentialing from year one.
- No. 041998–2008
The Big Firms
A decade inside KPMG, Arthur Andersen, and a Dallas partnership representing substantial closely‑held businesses.
- No. 052001
Federal Admissions
U.S. Tax Court · U.S. District Court, Northern & Eastern Districts of Texas · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, N.D. & E.D. Texas.
- No. 062015
Oklahoma Bar Admission
Admitted to practice by the Oklahoma Bar Association — second state license.
- No. 07Present
Pratt Law Group, PLLC d/b/a Lone Star Counsel
Founding Managing Partner. Frisco, Texas. Standing counsel to Texas families, business owners, physicians, franchise investors, and multi-generational estates.
Counsel across the continuum.
- 01Business Formation & Corporate Structuring
- 02Mergers, Acquisitions & Succession
- 03Trusts, Estate Planning & Probate
- 04Asset Protection & Wealth Preservation
- 05Bankruptcy & Restructuring · Subchapter V, Chapter 11, Chapter 7
- 06Intellectual Property · Trademarks & Copyrights
- 07Tax Planning & Controversy
- 08Family Office & Private Client Services
- 09Franchise Law
- 10Physician & Healthcare Practice Counsel
- 11Creators, Athletes & Founder-Creator Counsel
The organizations of record.
- Business Law Section
- Bankruptcy Law Section
- General Practice, Solo & Small Firm Section
- Real Estate, Probate & Trust Law Section
- Business & Corporate Law Section
- Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Section
- Taxation Section
- Personal Financial Planning Division
- Tax Section
- Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants
- Oklahoma Society of Certified Public Accountants
- Business Law Section
- Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section
- Frisco Chamber of Commerce · Member
- Board and advisory positions furnished on request
Craft, judgment, care.
Anonymized quotes — attribution held in confidence per the Texas Rules of Professional Conduct.
- “They drafted the buy-sell my father and I had been circling for a decade in a single afternoon. Two sittings later, it was signed.”Second-generation manufacturerDallas–Fort Worth · Succession
- “Every attorney we had worked with returned an answer. Darryl returned a plan. That is a different profession.”Founder & CEOAustin · Growth
- “Our estate spans three jurisdictions and two languages. They coordinated with our Mumbai counsel without a single briefing being lost.”Physician & family principalSugar Land · Legacy
- “When the balance sheet turned, they gave me the Chapter 11 education I should have had five years earlier — and the confidence to make the call.”Operating principal, industrial servicesThe Woodlands · Restructuring
- “Every document reads as if it were drafted for our family alone. Because it was.”Multi-generation ranching familyBoerne · Hill Country · Protection
- “We were referred by our CPA — the second time in a decade she has done so. That is the entire endorsement.”Founder, closely held technology companyFrisco · Formation
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every matter is evaluated on its own facts.
Request a Conference →If your matter warrants standing counsel, the desk is available.
A confidential conference. Same-day response. Frisco headquarters, or by secure video across the state of Texas.