Commercial Litigation

From entrepreneurs and start-up companies to Fortune 50™ corporations, Munck Carter is focused on serving technology companies and other businesses driven by innovation. We have experience in a broad range of practice areas. In each of them, our goal is the same — to help our clients grow and succeed, seizing new opportunities and avoiding potential pitfalls along the way.

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Commercial Litigation

At Munck Carter, we have the depth and breadth of resources, knowledge, ability and experience to win when high stakes, complex litigation is unavoidable. Our trial lawyers have a proven track record of achieving results, with hundreds of cases tried to verdict or arbitration award. We have successfully prosecuted and defended cases in federal and state trial and appellate courts, before arbitration panels, and in administrative actions before federal and state agencies throughout the United States. We represent companies in nearly every industry and have substantial expertise litigating a wide variety of sophisticated commercial disputes.

Our attorneys are skilled, aggressive trial lawyers who bring creative, strategic advice and sound business judgment to bear on every matter. We understand the business challenges and risks posed by potential and actual litigation. We deliver high value legal services by developing and tailoring our litigation strategies to the specific facts of each case. In every representation, we are attuned to the strategic objectives of our clients, and focused on achieving those objectives in the most efficient, cost-effective manner. Our use of advanced litigation technologies allows us to manage large-scale document productions and address other complicated discovery issues skillfully. These tools also enable us to present our cases more effectively.

Our commercial litigation practice is as diverse and complicated as the business environment faced by our clients. We represent and defend individuals, emerging companies and established businesses in disputes involving:

  • Antitrust & unfair competition
  • Appellate matters
  • Banking & financial services
  • Bankruptcy and restructuring
  • Business disputes
  • Business torts (such as fraud, negligent misrepresentation and tortious interference)
  • Construction defects and delays
  • Contract disputes
  • Copyright infringement
  • Corporate governance
  • Director and officer liability
  • Election and voting rights
  • Employment
  • First amendment and defamation
  • Franchise and distribution
  • Government investigations
  • Insurance coverage and bad faith
  • Large loss property subrogation
  • Mergers & acquisitions
  • Patent infringement
  • Product liability and toxic torts
  • Real estate
  • Securities
  • Trademark, trade dress and domain name disputes
  • Trade secrets disputes

Our commercial litigation practice and our individual trial lawyers are regularly honored by their peers and in leading publications.  Chambers USA noted that our firm is “especially well known for its expertise in IP disputes.” Lawdragon praised our partner, E. Leon Carter, as “clearly a winner.”  Mr. Carter is also a fellow of the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers, widely considered to be the premier professional organization for members of the trial bar in the U.S. and Canada.  In three of the last four years, one of our partners was recognized in the Dallas Business Journal’s annual list of the Top Business-Defense Lawyers in the DFW Metroplex.  Many of our commercial litigators have received repeated recognition as Texas Super Lawyers or Texas Rising Stars by Law & Politics and Texas Monthly magazines.

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