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PERSONNEL
Victor Quintanilla
- Texas Department of Public Safety, Private Security Owner/Company Representative, Lic#111281301
- San Antonio, Texas, Bexar County District Attorney's Office, Assistant District Attorney
- Hartford Insurance Company Staff Counsel Office, Houston, Texas, Staff Counsel
- Allstate Insurance Company Staff Counsel Office, Houston, Texas, Senior Staff Counsel
- National Unity Insurance Company, San Antonio, Texas, Commercial Claims Administrator
- Law Office of Victor H. Quintanilla, San Antonio, Texas, Partner
- Quintanilla Law Firm, PLLC, Attorney
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J. Wayne McMichael
Texas Department of Public Safety-Private Security License-#00728466 Private Investigations
McMichael is Senior Recovery Specialist at Quintanilla Law Firm (Not a licensed attorney).
Since joining Victor Quintanilla Law Firm, PLLC, in 2019, McMichael has leveraged 50 years of diverse business experience to assist the firm in investigating, locating, and recovering significant assets for its clients.His extensive background includes creating, partnering in, investing in, and managing businesses across a variety of sectors. These include commercial, multifamily, residential, industrial and agricultural property acquisitions, a 2,000-acre ranch and pecan orchard, a telecommunications company, an oil and gas development firm, an electronic device company, and a Unix-based software business. This broad experience has refined his expertise in private investigations, particularly in identifying effective strategies for recovering client losses.McMichael's work in complex asset recovery began in the late 1990s when he became personally involved in a high-profile financial fraud case as a defrauded investor. As one of three lead plaintiffs, he helped organize the majority of over 500 defrauded trading clients into a unified group, forming the foundation of a mass-action lawsuit against a bankrupt trading company. Working closely with private attorneys, state-appointed attorneys, and trustees, McMichael was the first to obtain the subpoenaed bank records of the company. He meticulously entered over 12,000 trade transactions into an accounting system to analyze the company's brief two-year operations. This detailed analysis uncovered reckless trading practices, improper fund transfers, and additional fraud concealed by falsified profit-and-loss statements prepared by the company’s accountant. The total losses were revealed to be approximately $35 million. This evidence became pivotal in launching legal action against the professional firms that had negligently overseen the company’s financial operations.The resulting class-action settlement, funded by errors and omissions insurance, enabled a significant recovery for investors. Although less than $2 million of the original investor pool remained at the time of the company's collapse, McMichael’s work—together with others’ efforts—helped recover approximately 60% of the original losses. This achievement was particularly meaningful to McMichael, as he found that many of the investors were elderly individuals or couples who had lost their life savings. The case highlighted the importance of timely investigation and collective action in mitigating financial devastation.Today, McMichael focuses on non-contested asset recovery, helping clients reclaim lost or forgotten funds. His work frequently delivers unexpected financial relief to individuals who had assumed their assets were permanently lost.