Roquemore Skierski adds two senior counsel to business litigation team

Roquemore Skierski PLLC has added Bronson T. Yake and Daniel Caminiti as senior counsel in its business and commercial litigation practice. The hires expand the Dallas firm’s trial and transactional bench as it serves privately held companies and owner-operated businesses across Texas.

Why it matters: - Roquemore Skierski PLLC is adding lawyers with both trial and transactional experience as it handles disputes that can affect a business’s capital, relationships and control. - The hires broaden the firm’s reach in North Texas and across Texas for privately held companies, emerging enterprises and owner-operated businesses.

What happened: - Roquemore Skierski PLLC announced that Bronson T. Yake and Daniel Caminiti joined the firm’s business and commercial litigation practice as Senior Counsel. - The firm said Yake brings 20 years of litigation experience and a background in aerospace engineering. - The firm said Caminiti brings trial experience from practices in Chicago and Fort Worth, plus years of corporate transactional work. - The additions support the firm’s business litigation work in Dallas, Collin, Denton and Tarrant counties, with additional reach into Harris and Travis counties.

The details: - Yake has practiced law in Maryland and Texas, including as a partner in a small litigation firm. - Yake’s work spans client consultation, negotiation, pleadings, motion practice, trial preparation, trial and appeals. - Yake worked with the U.S. Small Business Administration helping disaster victims secure emergency disaster relief loans. - Yake also served as a lead attorney investigating fraud in the COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan program. - Yake earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in aerospace engineering from Mississippi State University. - Before law school, Yake spent more than a decade as an engineer in the automotive and aerospace and defense industries. - Yake was selected to lead a first-year Legal Research and Writing seminar while a second-year law student at the University of Baltimore. - Caminiti joined from Watson Caraway Luningham Bradley & Trammell in Fort Worth, where he handled civil litigation matters from pleadings through trial. - Caminiti practiced in Chicago from 2016 to 2024, including two years at Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, where he tried cases to verdict. - Caminiti also spent three years at Handler Thayer, LLP, where he drafted, negotiated and advised on corporate transactions, financings and securities matters. - Caminiti’s practice covers breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, partnership and shareholder disputes, business fraud, business disparagement, unfair competition, non-compete litigation, real estate litigation, construction litigation, construction defect claims, DTPA matters, business injunctions, temporary restraining orders and arbitration. - Caminiti practices in the district courts of Dallas, Collin, Denton and Tarrant counties and in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. - Caminiti is also admitted to the Illinois bar, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Central Districts of Illinois, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. - Caminiti earned his J.D. from Southern Illinois University School of Law and his B.A. in history from the University of Illinois. - Caminiti’s recognitions include Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Stars from 2016 to 2021, Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch from 2020 to 2025, and Emerging Lawyer from 2021 to 2024.

Between the lines: - The hire of Yake adds a technical lens that can matter in disputes involving complex systems and detailed records. - Caminiti’s mix of trial work and transaction experience gives the firm another lawyer who can read contract disputes from a business-owner perspective. - Managing Partner Kelvin Roquemore said the new attorneys deepen a team that handles matters from the first conversation through trial.

What's next: - Yake and Caminiti will work with the firm’s attorneys on business disputes in Dallas and surrounding North Texas counties, with expanded reach into Harris and Travis counties. - Roquemore Skierski is positioning the expanded team to handle complex commercial and real estate disputes across Texas.

The bottom line: - Roquemore Skierski is betting that more courtroom depth and more business-side experience will help it compete for high-stakes commercial disputes across Texas.