Bell Nunnally & Martin LLP

Partner

Jean’s real estate work extends across the U.S. and occasionally beyond. From skyscrapers to neighborhood shopping centers, he works with members of the business community ranging from local beloved restaurant chains to some of Texas’ and the U.S.’ largest companies. Jean helps clients make their real property goals a reality. Jean maintains a broad commercial real estate practice, assisting clients — including landlords, tenants, developers, lenders and investment entities — with a range of transactional matters from the sale and acquisition of properties to development and refinancing, with a special emphasis on retail leasing and landlord/tenant issues.

Listed three times as one of D CEO Magazine’s “The Most Powerful Leaders in Dallas,” Jean has leveraged his pre-legal career work as a business consultant — handling diverse consulting projects in the U.S. and abroad for a Big Eight accounting firm — to better understand the totality of his clients’ businesses and their real estate and commercial finance needs. Some of his “greatest hits” include representing one of Texas’ fastest-growing breweries, Rollertown Beerworks, in a deal launching its new production, retail and entertainment facility in Downtown Frisco, Texas (a Dallas Business Journal 2022 “Best Real Estate Deals” finalist), representing Securus Technologies in its 2015 International Business Park lease (one of the 10 largest in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that year according to Bisnow DSW News) and negotiating a purchase contract for redevelopment of a downtown Dallas skyscraper.

Jean has extensive experience with retail and office tenant representation, as well as mechanic’s liens, easements, foreclosures, workouts, property owners’ associations and mortgage fraud cases.

American Bar Association Member State Bar of Texas Member Dallas Bar Association Member International Council of Shopping Centers Member

Education

JD, The University of Texas School of Law, 1994 MPA, The University of Texas at Austin, 1994 BS, Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, 1986

Admissions

Texas

Named to The Legal 500’s inaugural “U.S. City Elite 2025” list, 2025 Selected by attorney peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America®, 2018–2026 Named to Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Real Estate Lawyers” list, 2025 One of six attorneys honored for Real Estate Law in the Dallas 500 list (“The Most Powerful Business Leaders in Dallas – Fort Worth”) by D CEO Magazine, 2016 (the inaugural edition) to 2019 Featured in Best Lawyers®’ Texas' Best Lawyers, 2020 Named one of the "Best Lawyers in Dallas" by D Magazine, 2018 Represented Securus Technologies in its International Business Park lease, which was named the #7 Biggest Lease in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in 2015 according to Bisnow DFW News Prior to his legal career, Jean worked as a business consultant for a Big Eight accounting firm, handling diverse consulting projects in the United States, Mexico and Belize Managing Editor, LBJ Journal of Public Affairs, University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs