Texas trial counsel
There’s No Second Place in Litigation
Carpenter & Associates represents businesses, executives, families and individuals in high-stakes litigation, complex family matters and serious criminal defense.
Practice groups
Our Specialties
A business, a family’s wealth, a client’s liberty. Most high-stakes matters fall into one of three areas.
Complex Litigation & Business Disputes
Ownership, enterprise value and executive reputation, defended in disputes that decide the future of the business.
- — Partnership & shareholder disputes
- — Breach of contract & commercial litigation
- — Non-compete & trade secret matters
- — Fiduciary duty & business torts
High-Asset & Complex Family Law
Family wealth, closely held businesses and personal privacy protected when a marriage becomes a financial proceeding.
- — Complex-property divorce
- — Business & asset valuation issues
- — Contested custody & conservatorship
- — Premarital & postmarital agreements
Serious Criminal Defense
Liberty, licensure and a career built over decades, defended before an allegation becomes a public record.
- — Felony & violent charges
- — White collar investigations
- — DWI & related offenses
- — Appeals & expunctions
Also representing clients in
Real Estate & Construction Disputes
- Construction defect and lien disputes
- Commercial and residential property conflicts
Probate, Estate Planning & Fiduciary Litigation
- Estate and trust litigation
- Fiduciary breach and capacity claims
Equine & Agricultural Law
- Equine transaction and ownership disputes
- Ranch and agribusiness matters
Personal Injury
- Serious injury claims
- Wrongful death and catastrophic loss
Civil Litigation & Appeals
- General civil trial work
- State and federal appeals
Outside General Counsel
- Ongoing business counsel
- Litigation risk review and strategy
Attorney leadership
Meet the Trial Team
Joshua Carpenter
Managing Attorney, JD, PhD, MBA
Kevin Price
Chief Operations Officer, JD
Bradley Rivers
Attorney, JD
Frank Gannon
Attorney, JD
Brooke Benedict
Attorney, JD
Valencia Carter-Bennett
Attorney, JD
Drew Corbett
Intake Attorney, JD
Ben Dalton
Attorney, JD
Allen Griffin
Attorney, JD
Marshall Meek
Attorney, JD
Jason Naumann
Attorney, JD
LaKeisha Sanders
Attorney, JD, LL.M.
Sean Moloney
Attorney, JD
Representative matters
The Cases Clients Bring Us
These published descriptions are anonymized to protect client identities. Outcomes are not presented unless approved for publication.
Business Litigation
Represented a founding owner in the dissolution of a closely held company, where competing valuations and disputed capital accounts determined control of the enterprise.
Texas district court
Read matter contextBusiness Litigation
Defended a senior executive against enforcement of a non-compete following a move to a competing enterprise, with the executive's income and standing in the industry at issue.
Temporary injunction hearing
Read matter contextFamily Law
Advised a spouse in a divorce involving a closely held business, multiple properties and the tracing of separate property accumulated over a generation.
Contested final trial
Read matter context
The firm
Trial lawyers who understand law, business, psychology and investigation
Consequential cases are rarely won on legal argument alone. They turn on what the numbers actually show, how a decision-maker hears the story, and what evidence someone found first.
Founded by Joshua Carpenter, JD, PhD, MBA, the firm represents business owners, executives, licensed professionals and families of substantial means across Dallas–Fort Worth and throughout Texas.
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