JASON L. SANDERS

Member

Email: jsanders@sanderscollins.com | Direct: (214) 894-9981

Jason L. Sanders is a veteran litigator who provides unparalleled service to his clients.  He prides himself on being exceptionally responsive to his clients' needs day and night.  Texas Monthly and Law & Politics Magazine regularly named Jason a “Rising Star”.  He has been named a “Texas Super Lawyer” in Business Litigation each year since 2017, named to D Magazine’s “Best Lawyers in Dallas” each year since 2018 and as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” for Commercial Litigation since 2021.

Although Jason has a diverse litigation practice, his primary focus is on complex business related and financial services litigation. He has litigated hundreds of lawsuits and tried cases in state courts, federal courts, and arbitrations. Jason has litigated cases across the state of Texas and in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wyoming. He also handles appeals in state and federal court.

Jason’s experience includes:

  • Obtained dismissal of putative nationwide class action in federal court against national bank related to allegations of unlawfully substituting the index used to calculate adjustable rate mortgage loans.

  • Obtained dismissal of putative California class action in state court against national bank related to allegations of unlawfully substituting the index used to calculate adjustable rate mortgage loans.

  • Defended and settled an Fair Credit Reporting Act ("FCRA") class action in federal court alleging unlawful credit pulls after bankruptcy discharge.

  • Secured complete defense arbitration award for national bank in case in which plaintiffs alleged claims for usury, deceptive trade practices, and breach of contract.

  • Secured a jury verdict and judgment in a federal jury trial that included actual and punitive damages, costs, and attorney fees against a county officer who assaulted the plaintiff while incarcerated.

  • Obtained directed verdict in jury trial in which plaintiff sued multiple energy companies to remove a natural gas pipeline running across plaintiff's property.

  • Obtained summary judgment on tort claims and later secured a judgment as a matter of law on a breach of contract claim after factoring company presented its case in trial in an adversary proceeding in bankruptcy court.

  • Secured directed verdicts in two jury trials for one of the largest residential property management companies in the United States.

  • First-chaired over 15 temporary restraining order and injunction hearings in state and federal court.

  • Obtained appointment of a receiver in federal court to liquidate millions of dollars in collateral in multiple states across the United States.

  • Prosecuted and defended civil claims on behalf of developers and owners in construction litigation with general contractors, architects, engineers, and subcontractors in Arizona, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

  • Defended mortgage lenders and servicers in state and federal court in individual and putative class-action litigation.

  • Prosecuted civil claims for mortgage servicers and investors in mortgage-repurchase litigation.

  • Defended mortgage lenders, servicers, and investors in breach of contract, tort, TILA, RESPA, SCRA, FDCPA, and FCRA litigation.

  • Prosecuted civil claims for mortgage lender and the FDIC in mortgage-fraud litigation.

  • Represented REIT in various types of legal disputes.

  • Represented entities in mortgage-backed securities litigation.

  • Defended insurance companies and third-party administrators in ERISA litigation and prompt-payment arbitration.

  • Prosecuted and defended civil claims on behalf of franchisors in franchise litigation.

  • Represented entities in cases involving receivers, injunctions, prejudgment writs of attachment, and garnishments.

Education

B.A., cum laude and with distinction, Sonoma State University
J.D., with distinction, University of Iowa College of Law

State Licenses

Texas  |  California  | Arizona  |  New York

Federal Admissions

  • U.S. Supreme Court

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the First, Fifth, Eighth and Ninth Circuits

  • U.S. District Court for Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas

  • U.S. District Court for Central, Northern, and Southern Districts of California

  • U.S. District Court for District of Arizona

  • U.S. District Court for District of New Mexico

  • U.S. District Court for Western District of Michigan

Publications & Presentations

  • Locke, William H., Ralph M. Novak, G.T. Bastian, and Sara E. Dysart. “Borrower Challenges to Foreclosure and Lender Responses,” Texas Foreclosure Manual. 2023 ed. Austin, Texas: State Bar of Texas, 2023.

  • Presented "Foreclosure-Related Litigation Update" at the 52nd Annual William W. Gibson, Jr. Mortgage Lending Institute, in Austin September 13, 2018.

  • Locke, William H., Ralph M. Novak, and G.T. Bastian. “Borrower Challenges to Foreclosure and Lender Responses,” Texas Foreclosure Manual, 3rd ed. Supplement. Austin, Texas: State Bar of Texas, 2018.

  • Speaker at The Fannie Mae Litigation on Post-Discharge Reporting of Consumer Debts: A New FCRA Class Action Trend, Live Webcast, March 22, 2017.

  • Presented "Successfully Navigating the Texas Foreclosure Statute of Limitations Minefield" at the 49th Annual William W. Gibson, Jr. Mortgage Lending Institute, in Austin September 17, 2015 and Dallas November 5, 2015.

  • Presented at the 23rd National Conference on Consumer Finance Class Actions & Litigation, in Chicago July 27, 2015

  • Locke, William H., Ralph M. Novak, and G.T. Bastian. “Borrower Challenges to Foreclosure and Lender Responses,” Texas Foreclosure Manual. 3rd ed. Austin, Texas: State Bar of Texas, 2014.