Joseph F. Brophy

With 27 years of substantial transactional and litigation experience, Joseph F. Brophy has taken his diverse clientele from the boardroom to the courtroom in virtually all civil lawsuits as lead counsel. This includes, without limitations: contract and fraud, fiduciary duty, real estate, construction, securities, directors and officer's liability, professional malpractice, energy, insurance, personal injury, unfair competition, intellectual property and trade secrets. ​His diverse clientele includes individuals, small and large businesses, former senior government officials, law professors, local and national businesses, an owner of the NFL franchise, construction companies, franchisors and franchisees, and business executives. Before Brophy & Bland, PLLC, he was an equity partner in two high profile Austin law firms and has served as General Counsel to holding companies in the commercial real estate development and financial advisory industries. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Joseph F. Brophy included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Princeton Global Networks’ Top 100 Lawyers in America BL Ranking's Best Lawyers in America in Commercial Litigation America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators BL Ranking's Best Lawyers, Texas Best Lawyers, Austin and San Antonio editions Thomson Reuter's Texas Super Lawyers Top Rated Business & Securities Litigation Lawyers-Austin Texas’ Best Lawyers in the Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, San Antonio Express-News, the Wall Street Journal Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation Other Sources of Feedback About Joseph F. Brophy Included on the 2026Texas Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2025 Texas Super Lawyers list 2024 Texas Super Lawyers list 2023 Texas Super Lawyers list 2022 Texas Super Lawyers list 2021 Texas Super Lawyers list 2011 Texas Super Lawyers list 2005 Texas Super Lawyers list 2004 Texas Super Lawyers list

• Partner

• Texas Bar Foundation, Nominations Co-Chair for District IX
• Volunteer Legal Services, volunteer at legal clinics for the poor

• Texas, 1993

• San Antonio Bar Association (Member)
• State Bar of Texas (Member)
• San Antonio Young Lawyers Association (Member)
• Travis County Bar Association (Member)
• Austin Young Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Directors)
• Dallas Bar Association (Member)
• American Bar Association (Member)
• Texas Trial Lawyers Association (Member)
• The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Member)
• Austin Bar Association, Litigation, Business Law & Real Estate Sections
• Austin Bar Association Litigation Council, 2009 - 2010 (Past Chair)
• Austin Bar Association Litigation Council, 2007 - 2008 (Chairman of the Board)
• Austin Bar Association Litigation Council, 2006 - 2007 (Vice Chair)
• Austin Bar Association Litigation Council, 2001 - 2005 (Board Member)
• Barrister, Robert W. Calvert American Inn of Court CXVIII, 2004 - 2007
• State Bar of Texas Litigation Council, 2001 - 2004 (TYLA Liaison)
• Texas Young Lawyers Association, 2000 - 2004 (Board Member)
• TYLA/ACTL National Trial Competition, 2000 - 2004 (Co-Chair and Vice Chair)
• American Bar Association, 1999 - Present (Texas Delegate)