Will Clark, Fort Worth Criminal Attorney

William E. Clark, Jr. — known to clients and colleagues as Will — is the Managing Attorney of the Fort Worth office of Dunham & Jones. He came to criminal defense by way of complex business litigation, and it shows in how he works: methodically, document by document, on the conviction that in a criminal case every detail matters and the decisive one is rarely the obvious one.

Mr. Clark earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Texas at Arlington before receiving his Juris Doctor from Texas A&M University School of Law, where he was named to the Dean's List. He began his career in 2015 at Curnutt & Hafer, L.L.P., then spent three years with Thomas Price, PLLC from 2015 to 2018, followed by the Silberman Law Firm, PLLC. During those years he represented Fortune 500 companies in complex business litigation — work that trained him to build a case from the record itself rather than from the summary of it.

He has since devoted his practice to criminal defense in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, where he has handled more than 1,000 cases. Alongside that work, Mr. Clark has litigated over 100 contested hearings and trials before the United States Immigration Courts and has briefed and argued federal appellate matters before the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for both the Northern and Southern Districts of Texas — a federal footprint few criminal defense attorneys in the region can match, and one that matters when a state charge carries immigration or federal exposure.

That combination shapes his defense strategy. Mr. Clark reads a case the way a business litigator reads a contract dispute: looking for the provision that was not followed, the procedure that was skipped, the piece of evidence that does not hold up under scrutiny. Most cases turn on something like that, and finding it is the work.

Beyond his practice, Mr. Clark has been active in community service and legal education. From 2006 to 2010 he helped raise more than $100,000 for Wipe Out Kids Cancer, and he served on the organization's Board of Trustees from 2010 to 2012. He volunteered as a 7th and 8th grade youth soccer coach with Texans Soccer Club from 2016 to 2018. In 2016, he served as a guest host for a Texas A&M School of Law CLE program on current immigration issues, where he was the only private-practice attorney on a panel otherwise drawn from government and nonprofit sectors.

A native of Arlington, Texas, Mr. Clark keeps a ranch in West Texas where he raises cattle. He is a sports fan, and spends his time outside the office with his wife and son.

William E. Clark, Jr.
Managing Attorney – Fort Worth Office, Dunham & Jones
Texas A&M University School of Law | The University of Texas at Arlington
Admitted: N.D. Texas | S.D. Texas | Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

William E. Clark, Jr., Attorney at Law