About

Albert T. Van Huff is a TABC attorney with over 24 years of experience in the hospitality industry, offering representation and outside counsel services to various Texas entities holding licenses or permits from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC). Albert Thomas Van Huff is a highly experienced TABC attorney based in Houston, Texas. With over 24 years of experience in the hospitality industry, he specializes in providing representation and outside counsel services to a wide range of businesses, including restaurants, bars, nightclubs, hotels, resorts, and other entities holding licenses or permits from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC). His services cover a broad spectrum of legal needs for his clients, including business entity formation, TABC liquor licensing and permitting, dram shop defense, dram shop expert witness services, general and commercial liability defense, liquor tax audit representation, TABC administrative case defense, criminal liquor code violation defense, multi-agency law enforcement audit and investigation defense, and Alcoholic Beverage Code compliance counseling. Albert has served as the officer for entities holding TABC mixed beverage permits for several prestigious businesses in Texas, such as The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa, Hotel ZaZa in Houston and Dallas locations, Blossom Hotel Houston Medical Center, Tru by Hilton in Rockwall, Walden Yacht Club at Lake Conroe, Lago Mar in League City, Balmoral in Humble, and Wharton Country Club in Wharton. He obtained his Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Houston Law Center in 2000 and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from the University of Houston in 1997. Additionally, Albert received a Certification in Commercial Beverage Management from the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management in 2003. Albert is licensed to practice law in Texas and is admitted to several courts, including the Supreme Court of Texas, the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Tax Court, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas, and the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Prior to his legal career, Albert served on active duty with the United States Marine Corps from 1990 to 1994.

Legal Issues

• TABC liquor licensing and permitting
• Dram Shop Defense
• Dram Shop Expert Witness
• General and Commercial Liability Defense
• Liquor Tax Audit Representation

Certificates

Certification in Commercial Beverage Management
Conrad N. Hilton College of Global Hospitality Leadership

Languages

• English: Spoken, Written

Accepted Jurisdictions

Experience

• Partner
  Monshaugen & Van Huff PC
  2000
• Clerk
  McGinnis Lochridge
  1994
• Marine
  United States Marine Corps
  1990

Education

Associations

Costs

• Free Consultancy Service

Location