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Carrington ColemanLobby

Michael Prince
Partner

Products Liability, Professional Malpractice, Environmental, Aviation

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Phone: 214-855-3027
Direct Fax: 214-758-3727
Email: mprince@ccsb.com
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Mr. Prince is General Counsel for Carrington Coleman. He is also responsible for the Firm's ethics training and CLE.

Mr. Prince's practice involves a broad range of business litigation matters. Some of the more prominent areas are defense of legal malpractice and other professional liability claims, defense of environmental claims, such as ground and water pollution claims (including prevailing on an issue of first impression under the Oil Pollution Act); mass toxic tort cases, and insurance coverage litigation relating to environmental liability; and products liability defense, including aircraft crash litigation.

Mr. Prince also has extensive experience in contract disputes; the defense of directors’ and officers’ fiduciary duty cases; shareholder derivative suits; litigation of environmental and other insurance coverage questions; lender liability and bank litigation; representation of employers in a variety of employment disputes; protection of trade secrets for a variety of high technology companies; and employment-related embezzlement cases.

Mr. Prince is a retired Captain in the United States Naval Reserve. He was a member of the Administration of the Rules of Evidence Committee of the State Bar of Texas from 1990-2006, having served as its Chairman in 1995-1996. Mr. Prince has been recognized by Texas Monthly Magazine as a “Super Lawyer” in civil litigation defense for 2011.

"I’ll return your calls and I will not lie to you. I’ll tell you the truth whether you want to hear it or not.  I will not keep your case to get your money.  Doing this is not only right, it is my obligation as a counselor. “

 

 

Education

University of Georgia
J.D., cum laude, 1977
Member: Order of the Barristers,
Blue Key, Georgia Moot Court
Executive Board, 1976-77

Randolph-Macon College
B.A., with honors, 1968
Member: Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa.

Admittances

Texas 1978
Georgia 1977

Associations/Affiliations

Member: American Bar Association Sections on Litigation, Tort and Insurance Practice, and Business Law.

Member: College of the State Bar of Texas, Dallas Bar Association committees on Environmental Law, Business Litigation, and Antitrust.

Former Member: State Bar of Texas Administration of the Rules of Evidence Committee, 1990-2006 (Chairman, 1995-1996); recipient of the Presidential Citation from the State Bar for that service.

Former Member: State Bar of Texas Professional Liability Insurance Committee, and Court Costs, Efficient, and Delay Committee.

Ex-officio Member: Supreme Court Advisory Committee; Member: Evidence and Rules Subcommittees.

Member: Dallas Bar Association Legal Ethics Committee, 2004-present, Co-chair, 2005-2006.

Speeches/Publications

Chapter Author, Litigators on Experts:  Experts in Legal Malpractice Cases, ABA Publishing (2010).

Speaker, Regional and Mid-Size Law Firm Forum, 2007.

Co-author, Ethics in Attorney Advertising, and Solutions to the Most Common Ethical Challenges; National Business Institute, 2003.

Co-author, Selected Ethical and Malpractice Pitfalls in Transactional Work - Problems in Being a Lawyer for the Deal, in the Deal or with a Deal; Ninth Annual SMU Corporate Counsel Symposium, 2001.

Co-author, Evidence Law Update 2000, Litigation and Trial Tactics Course, University of Houston Law Foundation, 2000.