Publications

Common Law Due Process in the Law of Contracts, Texas Law Review, vol. 66.

Litigation Among Business Owners, Advanced Business Litigation, University of Houston Law Foundation.

Litigation Among Business Owners, Advising Small Businesses, University of Houston Law Foundation.

Business Divorce, Houston Bard Association Continuing Legal Education series.

Awards and Affiliations

Eric is licensed to practice in the State of Texas and in the United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.  He is a member of the State Bar of Texas (Business and Litigation Sections), the American Bar Association (Business and Litigation Sections), the Houston Bar Association, and the Christian Trial Lawyers Association.  Eric is also a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation and a member of the Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism. Eric has been received the Distinguished Faculty Award from the Houston Bar Association, and has been recognized in Who's Who Among Executives and Professionals.

Fryar Law Firm, P.C.

Fryar Law Firm, P.C. was founded in 2007 in order to broaden Eric Fryar's goal of promoting business owner rights by actively consulting with other lawyers currently handling such cases.

Personal Note

Eric lives in Spring, Texas with his wife Karen, where they are members of Faithbridge United Methodist Church. They enjoy travel, theater, and Texas wine.

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Biography and Record of Accomplishment

Education

Professional History

Eric Fryar served as judicial law clerk to the Hon. Thomas M. Reavley, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and then joined the prestigious Houston litigation firm Susman Godfrey, LLP, where he rose through the ranks to partnership and became a seasoned trial lawyer, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in many high-stakes commercial cases.

In 1997, Eric began his own practice and focused much of his efforts on protecting the rights and interests of shareholders, partners and other business owners.  Since that time, individually and in association with several Houston law firms, Eric has assisted clients and other attorneys in successfully resolving disputes among owners of businesses in a wide variety of legal situations, including:

• Members of a South African diamond mining joint venture who were defrauded into giving up their shares for a fraction of the true value.
• A group of shareholders of a Texas corporation whose assets and business opportunities were misappropriated by the corporation’s president and sold to a Canadian corporation ultimately resulting in a multi-billion dollar merger.
• The successful appeal of a judgment for shareholder oppression against a controlling shareholder in the Fifth Circuit's landmark Hollis v. Hill decision.
• A group of shareholders who were deceived into investing millions into a “dot com” disaster.
• Shareholders of a Houston metal fabrication business who fired the president of their company for mismanagement and misappropriation and were then sued by him for shareholder oppression.
• A shareholder of a West Texas minerals exploration company whose company’s assets and business opportunities were transferred to a new company started by the other shareholders.
• Shareholders in a Texas environmental services corporation whose interests were diluted by the controlling shareholders who issued themselves millions of new shares.
• The wife of one of two shareholders whose position as a shareholder was denied after her husband died.
• Limited partners in an MRI clinic who stopped receiving distributions as a result of financial manipulation by the general partner.
• A shareholder in a Delaware financial services corporation who was wrongfully terminated in order to force the sale of her shares under a shareholders’ agreement.
• Many other shareholders and business owners who were denied their rights to information regarding their company or otherwise were subjected to  pressure and unfair treatment designed to force them to sell for less than fair value. 
  
• Eric has also defended and counseled shareholders who were accused of unfair treatment or who believed that they were being unfairly pressured to pay an unfair price in a buy-out.