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Cantey Hanger LLP is a regional law firm with offices in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Southlake, Texas. It is the oldest law firm in Dallas/Fort Worth and one of the oldest in Texas.

Practice Areas
Areas of law practiced by Cantey Hanger include securities; mergers and acquisitions; bankruptcy; environmental law; appellate; intellectual property; labor and employment; real estate; eminent domain and property rights; school law; taxation; construction law; estate and probate; franchise law; health; and all aspects of business litigation.

History
Founded in 1882 by William Capps and Samuel B. Cantey Sr., Cantey Hanger is the olders law firm in Fort Worth and one of the oldest in Texas. Its beginnings precede the compeltion of the existing Tarrant County Courthouse by twelve years and Dallas County's "Old Red" courthouse by nine years. Capps and Cantey had been in business for six years when the present Texas State Capitol was completed.

The firm's early lawyers traveled all over north Texas, central Texas and beyond from their Fort Worth base, directed by the needs of their clients. Over the years the firm has had offices in Dallas, Southlake, Austin, and Washington D.C..

Among Cantey Hanger's early clients were pioneer banks, utilities, transportation companies and food processors, Those areas are still strongly represented, along with energy and related firms, manufacturers, technology firms, engineering and construction firms, hospital and health organizations, municipalities, and other governmental entities.

Since its founding, Cantey Hanger has remained an active and visible part of the Dallas/Fort Worth area's life, has been active in in pro bono service, and its individuals remain active in teaching, political involvement, the arts, education, and charity. Many of the firm's lawyers have served as directors, officers, and committee chairs of local, state and national bar, civic, and charitable organizations, and many have volunteered legal time.

Headquarters
Cantey Hanger has its headquarters in the Cantey Hanger Plaza building in Downtown Fort Worth.

In June 2007 Cantey Hanger moved its headquarters out of the Burnett Plaza facility in Fort Worth, Texas and moved across the street into the newly-constructed Cantey Hanger Plaza building.