Michael L. Kreager San Antonio, Texas
| President | |
| phone | 210-829-7722 |
| fax | 210-821-6672 |
Mike Kreager has practiced business and tax law in San Antonio, Texas for over 30 years. Mike's law practice is a general business practice that includes health care law, corporate, partnership and business entity and tax planning, business transactions and finance, family limited partnerships, estates, wills and trusts, and other practice areas relating to individuals and businesses.
A significant portion of Mike's practice is devoted to representing physicians and health care entities. Mike's thoughts on physician employment contracts were quoted extensively in the American Society of Clinical Oncology's Journal of Oncology Practice, Vol.2, pages 308-09 (November 2006) in the article Employment Contracts: What to Look For. Mike is a frequent speaker at continuing education programs, giving speeches in both business and taxation topics. More recently in 2009, the Baylor Law Review published Mike's extensive analysis of the statutory buy out right of physicians who are bound by covenants not to compete
Mike has a long history of community involvement. He served twelve years on the board of directors of the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, including eight years as chairman. The firm currently serves as the Blood Bank's general counsel. Mike, with other community leaders, co-founded the Blood & Tissue Foundation that supports the Texas Cord Blood Bank and other South Texas Blood & Tissue Center programs. Mike also served as chair of the board of directors of the San Antonio Area Red Cross on two separate occasions in connection with his twelve years of board service.. He recently completed two years as chairman of the board of trustees of the South Texas Medical Foundation. He currently serves on the boards of the San Antonio Medical Foundation, the Institutional Review Board of the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, the Blood & Tissue Foundation, the Bexar County Medical Society Foundation, and the Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children.
Mike is licensed to practice law in the state of Texas and has been board certified in tax law for over fifteen years by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. In addition to being admitted to practice in all Texas state courts, he is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and the United States Tax Court.
- Areas of Practice:
- Health Care
- Corporations, Partnerships and other Business Entities
- Tax and Estate Planning
- Business Transactions
- Certification/Specialties:
- Board Certified Tax Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization
- Bar Admissions:
- Texas, 1979
- U.S. District Court Western District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Tax Court
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
- Education:
- Southern Methodist University School of Law, Dallas, Texas,
1988
L.L.M. (in Taxation) - Southern Methodist University School of Law, Dallas, Texas,
1978
J.D.
Honors: Order of the Coif
Law Journal: Journal of Air Law and Commerce, 1978 - Vanderbilt University,
1976
B.A.
Honors: Cum Laude
- Honors and Awards:
- Johnson, Bromberg, Leed & Riggs Award, Outstanding Student in Corporation & Finance Law, Southern Methodist University
- Professional Associations and Memberships:
- State Bar of Texas, Member
- San Antonio Bar Association, Member
- American Health Lawyers Association, Member
- American Bar Association, Taxation Section, Member - Partnership Law Committee
- San Antonio Medical Foundation, Board of Trustees, 2001 - Present. Chairman, 2007 - 2009
- Institutional Review Board, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Community Member, 1989 - present
- American Red Cross (San Antonio Area Chapter), Chapter Chairman 1996 - 1997; 2003 - 2004. Board of Directors 1991 - 1998 and 2000 - 2006, Executive Committee 1993 - 1997 and 2001 - 2006
- South Texas Blood & tissue Center, Board of Directors 1994 - 2006. Chairman 1998 - 2006
- San Antonio Bar Foundation, 2001 - Present
- City of Terrell Hills, Board of Adjustments, 2003 - 2006
- The Blood & Tissue Center Foundation, Co-Founder; Board of Directors 2003 - Present, Co-Chair 2003 - 2004
- Sunshine Cottage School for the Deaf, Board of Directors, June 2004 - 2005
- Sunshine Cottage Scholarship Foundation, 2008 - Present
- Bexar County Medical Society Foundation, Board of Directors 2003 - Present
- San Antonio Lighthouse for the Blind, Board of Directors and Executive Committee, 2000 - 2003
- President's Council, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio Golden Circle, Southwest Foundation of Biomedical Research
