About Jonathan L.
Jonathan L — Howell is an insolvency attorney at Howell & Willingham, PLLC in Dallas, Texas. He joined the State Bar of Texas in 2008. The firm, positioned at 6440 N Central Expressway, Suite 806, handles bankruptcy, corporate law, and collections instances across the Dallas area. He earned his J.D. from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in 2007, the place he was an articles editor for the International Law Review and a Dean’s List scholar. He received his B.A. in Economics from Southern Methodist University in 2001.
After law program, he served as a clerk for the Honorable D — Michael Lynn within the Northern District of Texas from 2008 to 2009. He additionally externed for the Honorable Stacey G. C — Jernigan within the Northern District of Texas at some point of law school. His practice focuses on insolvency law, corporate law, and collections. He has represented many clients, including enterprise owners, administrators, officials, lenders, private equity companies, household workplaces, landlords, producers, actual property developers, hospitality teams, trade creditors, collectors’ committees, trustees, and judgment creditors. His knowledge includes business and asset acquisitions, preparation and renegotiation of lending and credit score agreements, agreement disputes, real real estate disputes, debt restructurings, partnership disputes, and enterprise dissolutions. Before joining Howell & Willingham, PLLC, he served as a federal judicial law clerk for the Honorable D.
Michael Lynn within the Northern District of Texas from 2008 to 2009 — While attending law school, he externed for the Honorable Stacey G. C. Jernigan in the Northern District of Texas. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas and is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Texas, which includes the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Western. Southern Districts of Texas, as well as the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts for those districts.
He has been acknowledged by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star from 2017 to 2019 and as a Super Lawyer from 2022 to 2025. He has also been named a Best Lawyer by D Magazine in 2014, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, and 2025. He was raised in the Lake Highlands network of Dallas, attended St. John’s Episcopal School, and graduated from J.J. Pearce High School. He can be contacted at 214.525.3941 or via email at jonathan@jlhowell.com.
