Chip N. Searcy was born in Houston, Texas and raised in the small town of Henderson, Texas. After high school, Chip received his bachelor degree from Southwest Texas State University, where he graduated with honors, and his law degree from Texas Tech University. While in law school at Tech, Chip was awarded a K.K. Leggett Fellowship at the Washington Legal Foundation in Washington, D.C., where he participated in drafting amicus curie briefs filed in federal Courts of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. After his fellowship, Chip authored a legal backgrounder article entitled "High Court Must Stop Judicial Erosion of Property Rights," published by the Washington Legal Foundation in November, 2000. Chip was a partner in the Fort Worth law firm of Bowers & Searcy, P.C. from 2004-2010. Chip is currently managing partner of the Fort Worth Office of Shackelford, Hawkins and Searcy, P.C., a regional law firm with offices in Lubbock, Texas and Gun Barrel City, Texas. Chip has been voted by his colleagues in Fort Worth Magazine as a Top Attorney for the past seven years (2004-2011). Chip is a member of the Tarrant County Bar Association. Chip is licensed in federal court in the Northern, Western and Eastern Districts of Texas and in all Texas State Courts. Chip's practice areas include general civil litigation and transactions in small business and non-profit affairs, corporate matters, partnership agreements and dissolutions, contracts, construction matters, commercial manufacturing, consumer fraud and collections, insurance claims, real estate contracts, closings, sales, leases and liens, condemnation and eminent domain, landlord/tenant, premises defects, land damages, property damages and personal or proprietary injury matters, marital and family law, and probate administration.
