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Carol Collins Payne
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Biography
Carol helps businesses and individuals solve their commercial legal problem-everything from addressing disputes before a lawsuit is filed to aggressively pursuing full-blown litigation and trials. A lawyer for more than 20 years, Carol is experienced, creative, tough and prepared. She understands the importance of each case to her clients, and she approaches each case with the same focus, intensity, determination and sheer will to win that has served her well since the beginning. As a former big-firm lawyer, she knows how to provide high-quality legal services, but through a small-firm boutique platform that emphasizes personal service, responsiveness, and value.
Carol handles a wide variety of business-related disputes in state and federal courts, in Texas and around the country, including contract claims, real estate matters, lender/borrower disputes, fraud and other business torts, construction and energy-related matters. She also has significant experience representing lawyers and law firms, and she has successfully defended lawsuits for professional negligence, breach of fiduciary duties, fraud, and disqualification
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Licensed in Texas for 32 years
State: Texas
Acquired: 1993
No misconduct found
Location
Estes Thorne & Carr PLLC
3811 Turtle Creek Blvd Ste 2000, Dallas, TX, 75219-4453
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Carol Collins Payne's Lawyer Endorsements
"I had the pleasure of working with Carol on a Texas litigation matter, she was serving as our local counsel (we are a Colorado-based firm). Not only was her local-law guidance invaluable, but her contributions from a strategic planning and approach standpoint were also very helpful."
"I have worked with Carol Payne on several significant cases. She is extraordinarily smart, shows good judgment and is remarkably composed under fire. Carol knows how to win cases and does so often."
"Carol is a tenacious litigator and tactician, and her practice is a showcase of the highest ethical and technical standards"
"I previously worked with Carol at another law firm and she is a top notch attorney with practical business savy advice. I recommend her to any corporate client seeking litigation assistance."
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Experience
Honors
2016
Commercial Litigation, Best Lawyers in America
2015
AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
2015
Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
2015
Americas Most Honored Professionals, America's Most Honored
2015
Top Rated Lawyer, Texas Women Leaders, Martindale-Hubbell
2014
Texas Super Lawyer, Texas Monthly
2014
Top Attorneys in Texas, Texas Monthly
2014
AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
2013
Texas Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2013
AV Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell
Work Experience
2002 - 2012
Partner, Vinson & Elkins LLP
2000 - 2000
Assistant District Attorney, Dallas County District Attorney's Office
1999 - 2001
Associate, Vinson & Elkins LLP
1994 - 1999
Associate, Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal
1993 - 1994
Judicial Clerk, United States Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit
Associations
2011 - 2014
YMCA Camp Grady SpruceMember of Board of Management
Education
1993
Baylor University School of Law
Doctor of Jurisprudence/Juris Doctor (J.D.)
1987
The University of Texas At Austin
BBA, BS
Speaking Engagements
2012
National Association of Bar Related Insurance Companies Annual Conference
ABA Model Rules in the Future of the Practice of Law
2010
Spring 2010 National Legal Malpractice Conference
Case Law Developments in Legal Malpractice
Publications
2014
American Bar Association
Defending the Corporate Deposition of the Law Firm Defendant
2013
American Bar Association
Settle and Sue Again: Strategies and Snares
2010
American Bar Association
Case Law Developments in Legal Malpractice
Languages
Spanish