Carrington Coleman has one of the premiere appellate practices in Texas. We represent clients in a wide array of matters before the United States Supreme Court, various United States Courts of Appeals, the Texas Supreme Court, and the intermediate Texas appellate courts.
Because federal and state appellate practice is an increasingly specialized art, we assist trial attorneys ─ both from within Carrington Coleman and from other law firms ─ in navigating the often murky waters leading from trial to the appellate courts. At the trial level, we partner with trial attorneys in ensuring the proper preservation of error, and in drafting and arguing summary judgment motions and responses, motions to dismiss and responses, challenges to expert testimony, jury charges, trial briefs, and post-trial motions. Before the courts of appeals, our practice includes not only brief writing and oral argument in appeals from final judgments, but also mandamus proceedings, appeals from arbitration awards, restricted appeals, appeals from grants or denials of injunctions, and other interlocutory appeals.
Our appellate practice group is led by Ken Carroll. Our attorneys include former law clerks for the United States Courts of Appeals, the Texas Supreme Court, and the United States District Courts.
Our representations over the past year illustrate the breadth and sophistication of our practice. We have enjoyed particular success before appellate courts in matters involving claims of legal malpractice. In a widely-followed case before the Texas Supreme Court, we prevailed in reversing the bulk of the plaintiff’s damages against an international law firm on the issue of “collectibility” in the underlying lawsuit. Before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, we succeeded in having a legal malpractice action against another large law firm dismissed for lack of standing. And we obtained a full affirmance from the El Paso Court of Appeals of a take-nothing judgment on malpractice and other claims brought against a large Texas law firm by a former client. Other successful matters include HMA v. Wheeler, 292 S.W.3d 812 (Tex. App. -- Dallas 2009, no pet.), in which we obtained reversal of the lower court’s refusal to dismiss a medical malpractice claim against our client, on the ground that the plaintiff had failed to timely serve her expert report within the statutory deadline. And in a real property dispute, we successfully defended a trial court victory that rejected an attempt to enjoin our client from making certain improvements along an easement. Amend v. Watson, No. 05-08-01585-CV, 2009 WL 1912693 (Tex. App. -- Dallas Jul. 6, 2009, no pet.).
For more information, please contact:
Practice Chair:
Ken Carroll
214-855-3029
kcarroll@ccsb.com
Attorneys:
Not certified by the Texas Board of Legal Certification except as noted.
