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Trial attorney in charge, focusing on products liability suits brought in Texas, for large self-insured corporations, and on other personal injury suits and business and commercial claims. Experience has also included assault, automobile collisions, bad faith, business, commercial, contract, construction, deceptive trade practice, defamation, fraud, indemnity, medical malpractice, negligence, premises liability, workers compensation act violations, and warranty litigation. Responsibilities have included preparation of budgets, reporting to management, investigation, design of litigation test procedures, preparation of witnesses, discovery, pre-trial, jury trials and appeals.

Jury trials have been in Austin, Bandera, Beaumont, Beeville, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Del Rio, George West, Hondo, Odessa and San Antonio. Other products liability suits have been defended in Big Spring, Cotulla, Edinburg, Laredo, McAllen, Port Lavaca, Rio Grande City, Seguin, Seminole and Waco. Other civil suits have been defended in Austin, Dallas, El Paso, and Houston.

Products liability suits have involved several kinds of products, including grinding equipment, ladders, line trimmers, motors, nibblers, electric and gas saws, saw blades, scaffolds, spark plugs, switches, valves, water heaters and wrenches. Circumstances have included amputations, burns, death, falls, fires, silicosis, indemnity, lost profits and property damage. Suits have also involved claims of premises liability, and employer and work place liability. To see representative cases, click here.

Current Employment Position(s)

• Sole Practitioner

Areas of Practice

• Litigation & Appeals
• Products Liability Law
• Business and Commercial Litigation
• Personal Injury Litigation

Litigation Percentage

• 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions

• Texas, 1973
• U.S. District Court Western District of Texas, 1975
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas, 1994
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1977
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 1975

Education

• St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas, 1973
  Doctor of Jurisprudence
  Honors: Dean's List
  
  
• University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1970
  B.A.
  
  

Published Works

• Cross- Examination of Experts on "Underlying Facts or Data", ABA, Section of Litigation, Expert Witness Committee, Expert Alert, Vol. 4 No. 3, Summer, 2008
• Effect of State Licensing Statutes on Qualification of Experts to Testify, American Bar Association, Section of Litigation, Expert Witness Committee, Expert Alert, Vol. 2, Issue 2, Summer, 2006
• Is There a Right to Supplement Expert Disclosures Under Rule 26(e)?, American Bar Association, Section of Litigation, Committee on Expert Witnesses, Expert Witnesses Newsletter at 7, 2009

Representative Cases

• McCracken v Garza, No. SA-06-CA-0988-XR, 42 U.S.C 1983 (W.D. Texas 2008)

Representative Clients

• Upon Request

Honors and Awards

• President, San Antonio Bar Association, 2009-2010
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation, 2009
• President's Award, 2008, for Chairmanship of San Antonio Bar Association District Courts Committee, 2005 - 2008
• President Elect, San Antonio Bar Association, 2008 - 2009
• President's Award, San Antonio Bar Association, 2006
• Representative of San Antonio Bar Association, to the American Bar Association, House of Delegates, 2008 - Present

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association
  Litigation Section
  
  
• American Association for Justice (AAJ)
  
  
• San Antonio Bar Association, Litigation Section, 2004 - 2005
  Chair
  
  
• San Antonio Bar Association, District Courts Committee, 2005 - 2008
  Chair
  
  
• Texas Bar Foundation
  Life Fellow
  
  
• San Antonio Bar Foundation
  
  

Past Employment Positions

• Law Office of Carl Robin Teague, Self-employed, 1985 - Present
• Oppenheimer, Rosenberg, Kelleher & Wheatley (now Oppenheimer, Blend, Harrison & Tate), Shareholder, 1973 - 1985

Fraternities/Sororities

• Phi Delta Phi

Birth Information

• September 9, 1946, Austin, Texas, United States of America