Tim Soefje is a Partner and the Office Chair at Freeman Mathis & Gary's Dallas office. He is the Vice Chair of the FMG’s Architects & Engineers Design Liability team. For more than 30 years, Mr. Soefje has represented national and local clients in complex, high-stakes construction litigation, involving architects, engineers, design professionals, land surveyors, general contractors, subcontractors and other defendants. His practices includes both serious property and personal injury. He also represents other professionals in serious matters.

Mr. Soefje has developed a statewide reputation representing judges, lawyers and law firms on a wide range of serious ethical matters, grievances, client fee disputes, applications for admission, claims avoidance and crisis management. He represents lawyers and law firms sued for barratry.

He has served for several years on the Texas board of directors for the Professional Liability Underwriters Society (PLUS) and was featured as one of the #30For30 for PLUS' 30th Anniversary. He also has served as the Co-Chair of the Professional Liability Defense Federation (PLDF) Miscellaneous Professional Liability Committee.

Mr. Soefje is a Texas mediator, completing his certification at the nationally-recognized University of Texas School of Law Center for Public Policy Dispute Resolution Center. He focuses his mediation practice on the resolution of professional liability, fee dispute, personal injury, construction defect, real estate, and commercial matters.

As a former public relations professional and daily newspaper news editor, he is uniquely qualified to defend media liability and defamation claims. He also effectively provides large and small clients with crisis and disaster management leadership when dealing with the press.

Mr. Soefje also represents college-level coaches in contract negotiation, employment consultation, NCAA compliance assistance, and business development. He has developed an active Title IX practice, representing college-level coaches and athletes in the defense of Title IX claims. He also assists coaches with NCAA and Title IX internal investigations, social media training, and crises management.

Mr. Soefje currently serves as an outside consultant to OmniSure Consulting Group, LLC, a national leader in risk management and loss control services in architectural, engineering, and design professionals and medical negligence space. He is a regular contributor and speaker for seminars, webinars, and educational training programs, as well as a contributing writer and editor to industry publications. He also writes a blog Professional Liability Update, which has been featured numerous times as a top blog by the Texas State Bar.

Tim coached elite youth travel fastpitch softball for more than 10 years and founded one of the nation’s premier clubs. The American Freedom Softball Club has grown to more than 60 teams in six states and is among the largest girl’s travel clubs in any sport. The American Freedom has helped more than a 1,000 young women advance to compete at the college level. He remains actively involved in the American Freedom in an advisory role and is considered a national expert on helping young women get recruited to compete at the college level.

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U.S. District Court and Bankruptcy Court of Idaho

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court, Western District of Oklahoma

U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas

• Lead counsel in successful defense of multi-million dollar alleged engineering malpractice claim involving alleged negligent design of wastewater lagoon.
• Lead counsel in successful defense of land surveyor involved in multi-million explosion arising from horizontal directional drilling of new natural gas line.
• Lead counsel in successful defense of architects, engineers, and other design professionals involved in multiple multi-million high-rise condominium litigation claims.
• Lead counsel in successful defense of legal malpractice claim involving sale of Brazilian naptha plant, where plaintiffs alleged $90 million in lost profits.
• Lead counsel in successful defense of architectural malpractice claim where alleged negligent design and construction of commercial landfill in 100-year flood plain caused flooding in more than 140 homes and business in South Texas community.
• Lead counsel in successful defense of nationally-prominent architectural firm where alleged negligent design and construction of a retention pond caused flooding of residential neighborhood.
• Lead counsel in successful defense of federal class action lawsuit where more than 65,000 policy holder claimed more than $20 million in damages as a result of the sale of health insurance policies.
• Lead plaintiff counsel for prominent owner of fast food franchise in significant federal civil rights claim, resulting in $3.5 million jury verdict in favor of client. Argued before en banc panel of 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and filed writ of certiorari in the United States Supreme Court. Case settled for mid-six figures after remand to trial court.
• Lead defense counsel in multi-million dollar, complex contract claim brought by kidney dialysis provider against third-party administrator of Medicare Plus Choice health insurance plan.
• Lead defense counsel in 2-week class certification hearing, obtaining denial of class certification in case involving national law firm’s participation in marketing of long-term disability insurance policies to thousands of Texas school teachers.
• Co-lead counsel in successfully resolving one of first medical negligence lawsuits in the country for negligent use of stereotactic radiosurgery (x-knife) on a brain stem tumor in 25-year-old plaintiff, who suffered permanent brain damage.
• Lead counsel in 2-week jury trial against orthopedic surgeon who allegedly performed arthroscopic surgery on the wrong knee of his patient.

• American Bar Association

• State Bar of Texas, New York & Oklahoma

• Dallas Bar Association

• Collin County Bar Association

• Oklahoma County Bar Association

• Professional Liability Defense Federation (PLDF)

• Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS)

• Claims & Litigation Management Alliance (CLM)

• AV Preeminent - Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings™

• Member, College of the State Bar Of Texas

• Beware The Belief Your Response To Auditors Is a Colossal Waste of Time – American Law Institute Continuing Legal Education (ALI CLE) (2025)
• Legal Ethics (Idaho): Conflicts of Interest, Attorney’s Fees & AI’s Impact On The Profession – National Business Institute (NBI) (2025)
• UT Law CLE - The Supreme Court is Poised To Make a Right Turn: What Does This Mean for Professional Liability? (2020)
• Five Ways Social Media Will Get You Disbarred (2017)
• Current Issues In Legal Reporting, Texas State University, Department of Mass Communications (2015)
• Professional Liability Insurance: Why You Need It & What to Watch Out For: 64th Annual Convention & Tech Expo Texas Society of Professional Surveyors (2015)
• Third-Party Liability Claims Against Design Professionals, Admiral Delta Pro Insurance (2015)
• Risk Management for Engineers, KSA Engineers, Inc. (2015)
• LEEDS Litigation, Admiral Delta Pro Insurance (2015)
• Pathology of Mistakes, OmniSure Consulting Group/Merica Life Sciences (2014)
• Law of Construction Defects & Failures, HalfMoon Education Seminar (2013)
• Subprime Crises – Understanding Liability & Impact On Underwriting (2009)
• Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Monitor Liability Managers (2009)
• Construction Litigation – What Happened While You Weren’t Looking, Monitor Liability Managers, (2008)