Attorney Profile
Christopher W. Carr | Partner
chris.carr@jcmfirm.com
214-828-9200
214-828-9229 fax
Overview
Chris Carr approaches dispute resolution with aggressive and creative strategies designed to achieve the best possible results for his clients. Mr.Carr's practice involves commercial litigation for both plaintiffs and defendants, with an emphasis on claims involving:
- Partnership and shareholder disputes
- Breach of fiduciary duties
- Fraud
- Breach of contract
- Officer and director liability
- Property disputes
- Corporate governance
- Professional negligence.
Mr.Carr represents both large and small businesses and individuals in complex business and commercial matters.
Mr.Carr serves as the lead national trial counsel on behalf of a chemical handling, recycling and re-refining company in several products liability and toxic tort cases filed across the country in both state and federal courts.
Additionally, Mr. Carr:
- Counsels individual and corporate clients on liability and risk management
- Analyzes and drafts contracts and service agreements with a focus on competition restrictions
- Advises clients on business entity selection, formation, and corporate governance.
Representative Experience
- Prevailed and recovered attorneys' fees in arbitration proceeding involving commercial dispute where the claimant alleged breaches of various contracts, as well as fraud, and sought damages exceeding $7 million.
- Successfully tried trademark infringement and breach of contract state court case in which opposing party sought permanent injunction preventing client's use of a service mark and trade name.
- Successfully tried state court case involving bad faith retention of a security deposit by a landlord wherein client was awarded actual damages, statutory treble damages, and attorneys' fees.
- Obtained multi-million dollar judgment in trial of a bankruptcy adversary proceeding involving officer and director liability and breach of fiduciary duty with regard to the management of a public company.
- Represented Swiss bank in arbitration proceeding in which opposing party sought nearly two million dollars in damages but recovered less than $200,000.
- Defended contractual arbitration claims to a take nothing award in a seven-day arbitration proceeding when identical claims were the subject of a claimant's award in a previous and nearly identical hearing involving a different law firm.
- Conducted case planning, discovery, pretrial briefing, oral argument, and witness and case preparation for successful state court jury trial resulting in over $400 million verdict in fraud, tortious interference with contracts, and prospective business relation and civil conspiracy case. The judgment was later overturned on appeal.
- Participated in three-month Lawyers on Loan program with the Dallas County District Attorney's office, during which picked jury, led case or handled both in ten jury trials.
- Defended several state court personal injury jury trials.
- Satisfactorily obtained resolution by settlement of numerous (100+) disputes for plaintiffs and defendants.
- Handled successful appeals in class action cases and preservation of judgment in bankruptcy adversary proceeding.
Publications
- Complex Litigation and Trial Tactics, (Co-Author), Continuing Legal Education (May 2002)
- Lawyers on Loan, Dallas Bar Association Headnotes, Vol. 24, No. 3 (March 1, 2000)
- Practical Tips: Avoid Lawsuits and Limit Liability (November 1999)
- Sudden Death: The Supreme Court of Texas Kills Mary Carter, 24 Texas Tech Law Review 1227 (1993)
Presentations/Speeches
- Presented: Risk Management: Applicability of Proactive and Preemptive Approach to Claims and Lawsuits, Association of Corporate Counsel (2008)
- Presented: Practical Tips: Avoid Lawsuits and Limited Liability (1999)
Awards and Distinctions
- Texas Monthly "Super Lawyer" (2005, 2006, 2007)
- Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Torts
- Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Contracts
- Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Criminal Law
- Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Public International Law
- Texas Tech Law Review (1992 - 1994)
- Texas Tech Law Review, Note Editor (1993 - 1994)
Professional/Civic Affiliations
- Dallas Bar Association
- Knights of Columbus
- Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
Practices
- Business & Commercial Law
- Products Liability and Toxic Tort
- Professional Negligence
Education
- Texas Tech University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1994
- University of Texas at Austin, B.B.A. in Finance, 1991
Admitted
- State Bar of Texas, 1994
- U.S. District Court for the Northern, Eastern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas
