Service Area
Granbury, Texas.
National reach. Cross-border practice.
Substantive corporate work doesn't require the lawyer to be in the room. The Granbury office anchors the Texas practice. The Scale LLP platform handles everywhere else in the United States. The dual-qualified bar handles Canada. Most matters are delivered through scheduled video meetings and secure document workflows, with in-person attendance for board meetings, closings, and hearings as needed.
Texas, the primary practice area
Kraus Law is rooted in Granbury, Texas, in Hood County, about forty minutes southwest of Fort Worth and ninety minutes from Dallas. The office on Bridge Street is the firm's physical anchor. The Texas practice is particularly active across the DFW Metroplex (Fort Worth, Dallas, Plano, Frisco, Arlington, McKinney, Grapevine), with substantive engagements in Houston, Austin, and San Antonio. The home-county practice has its own page, business counsel in Granbury and Hood County, and the Tarrant County work is described on the Fort Worth owner-transaction page.
The firm's depth in Texas business law, including the Texas Business Court, SB 29 governance reforms effective May 2025, the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act effective July 2024, and the Business Organizations Code, is reflected throughout the practice and the published Insights.
The DFW corridor, proximity as a structural advantage
Granbury sits at a structural advantage to the Dallas–Fort Worth region. For matters that benefit from in-person attendance, board meetings, closings, hearings, regulatory engagements, the office is closer to DFW than most Austin or Houston-based firms, and substantially less expensive than the downtown Dallas or Fort Worth alternative.
Within 60 minutes
Fort Worth, Weatherford, Stephenville, the surrounding Tarrant and Parker County corridors. Same-day in-person presence is routinely feasible.
Within 90 minutes
Downtown Dallas, the Mid-Cities, Arlington, Plano, and the broader Dallas County footprint. Day-of attendance for scheduled meetings.
Across Texas
Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and the broader state. In-person presence by planned travel where the matter calls for it.
National reach through Scale LLP
Chuck Kraus is a Partner at Scale LLP, a distributed national law firm of more than 80 attorneys across 22 states. The Scale platform extends Kraus Law's substantive reach without the friction or cost of separate firm engagements. Clients headquartered or operating in California, New York, Florida, Colorado, Illinois, Washington, and seventeen other states gain access to specialists in litigation, intellectual property, employment, fintech, real estate, and adjacent practice areas as needed, coordinated through Chuck rather than through a parallel firm relationship.
The model means a Texas-based client expanding into California, or a New York-based founder establishing a Texas entity, engages one lawyer who marshals the right Scale partners on either side. One retainer. One set of conflicts checks. One intake.
Cross-border to Canada
Chuck is admitted to the Law Society of Alberta in Canada and has practiced extensively across the Canadian energy and resource sectors, including two tours as General Counsel of Calgary-based dual-listed energy companies and current service as Outside General Counsel to Greenfire Resources (NYSE/TSX: GFR). For Texas companies expanding into Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, or Ontario, and for Canadian companies establishing U.S. operations in Texas, the cross-border practice eliminates the attorney-to-attorney hand-off that typically fragments these engagements.
Provincial filings and Canadian regulatory work that require provincial bar admission are handled in association with Canadian counsel; the cross-border coordination and the U.S. side of the engagement stay with Chuck. Cross-border practice area details →
Where we serve
The geographic footprint across Texas, the United States, and Canada.
Texas, primary practice area
Granbury (office location), Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio. Concentrations in Tarrant County, Dallas County, Hood County, and the DFW Metroplex. Reach across the Texas Hill Country and the broader state.
United States, through Scale LLP
Eighty-plus attorneys across twenty-two states. Active engagements in California, New York, Florida, Colorado, Illinois, and Washington, with bar coverage in seventeen additional states.
Canada, dual-qualified
Bar admission in Alberta. Practical experience across Alberta, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia from prior GC tours at Calgary-based dual-listed energy companies. Cross-border coordination with provincial counsel where required.
How distance works in this practice
Most corporate matters do not require the lawyer to be in the room. Capital raises, governance work, M&A diligence, fractional GC engagements, contract negotiation, and policy development are delivered through scheduled video meetings, secure document portals, and email, with the same substantive depth as an in-person engagement. The Granbury office handles in-person Texas work directly. Scale LLP attorneys handle in-person work elsewhere in the United States as needed. Initial conversations take place over a thirty-minute introductory call, conducted by phone or video.
Substantive corporate counsel.
Texas roots, national reach.
For corporate matters that need attention from substantive counsel, without big-city overhead, let's have that conversation.