Bill Ikard

Email: bill@ikardwynne.com

Areas of Representation

  • Property Tax Litigation and Counsel
  • Oil and Gas Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Appellate Practice

William Ikard is a partner with Ikard Wynne LLP in Austin, Texas.  During his career Bill has represented clients in litigation of all types, from contested guardianships to complex multidistrict class action antitrust cases.  He has represented individuals and business entities in disputes involving contracts, financial arrangements, mergers and acquisitions, trade secrets, fiduciary relationships, white collar crime, securities fraud, antitrust, products liability, oil and gas interests and zoning and land use.  While the focus of his practice for many years has been property tax litigation, his real passion is representing clients of all kinds whose real life needs require relief in the Texas courts.

He has 30 years’ experience representing property owners in property tax litigation.  Recently, Bill was named a 2005 “Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics and Texas Monthly magazine as one of the seven lawyers selected Texas-wide for the practice area of tax litigation.  Bill has successfully represented owners of industrial, manufacturing, natural resource, and commercial properties of numerous and varied kinds.  These have included, among others, natural gas pipelines, crude oil inventory, oil and gas reserves, cable television operating plant, refining facilities, lignite reserves, limestone rock reserves, retail shopping centers, 1000-room national flag hotels, jewelry store inventory, residential lot inventory, environmental laboratories, oil and gas drilling equipment, manufacturing and fabricating machinery, equipment and inventory, and downtown office buildings. 

Licenses and Admissions

  • State Bar of Texas – all courts

Education

  • J.D., The University of Texas at Austin School of Law, Austin, Texas 1972; City of London Polytechnic University, 1971
  • B.A., The University of Texas at Austin, 1968, University of the South, 1964-1966

Recent Honors

Recognized as a 2005 “Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics and Texas Monthly magazine as one of the seven lawyers selected Texas-wide for the practice area of tax litigation, “AV” rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

Professional Affiliations

American Bar Association; Austin Bar Association; Founding member of Ad Valorem Tax subsection of State Bar of Texas Taxation Section; Institute of Professionals in Taxation (IPT); Texas Bar Foundation, Sustaining Life Fellow; Austin Bar Foundation Life Fellow; member Texas Association of Property Tax Professionals; Travis County Women Lawyers’ Foundation Life Fellow

Community Involvement

Member, St. James Episcopal Church, and it’s Vestry; and capital campaign committee; Atticus Circle member; Appalachian Trail Conference; Austin Parks Foundation member; City of Austin Waller Creek Citizen Advisory Committee

Presentations and Publications

Routine speech making at Continuing Legal Education seminars and industry conferences, including IPT/ABA, TXOGA, TAPTA, Real Estate Center of Texas A&M University, and The Broadband Tax Institute.

Previous Work Experience

Popp & Ikard LLP, Austin, Texas, (1986-2005); Specialized in property tax litigation.
Lea, Ikard & Chamberlain, Austin, Texas (1985) Commercial litigation partner
Johnson & Swanson, Austin, Texas (1984-1985), Commercial litigation partner
Bracewell & Patterson, Houston, TX (1972-1984), Commercial litigation partner