Jack G. Carnegie
Partner
Houston
Tel: 1.832.239.3703
Fax: 1.832.239.3600
Email:
jcarnegie@jonesday.com
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Jack Carnegie specializes in commercial litigation and civil appeals. He is board certified in civil appellate law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and is a member of the Texas State Bar Appellate Section Corporate Counsel Liaison Committee. He has been voted as one of Houston's "Top Lawyers" by H Texas magazine, both in commercial litigation and civil appellate law. He also has been selected by Law & Politics and Texas Monthly for inclusion in Texas "Super Lawyers."
Jack has argued dozens of times before Texas appellate courts, including the Texas Supreme Court and the Fifth Circuit. In addition to his appellate practice, Jack maintains an active trial-level practice focusing primarily on business litigation and arbitration, including oil and gas-related disputes, insurance disputes, additional insured and indemnity issues, contract and warranty claims, and trade secrets.
Recently, Jack obtained a major victory for Texas insurance policy holders in Evanston Ins. Co. v. Atofina Petrochemicals, Inc., 256 S.W.3d 660 (Tex. 2008). There, the Texas Supreme Court granted two motions for rehearing, held that breaching insurers cannot contest the reasonableness of a settlement entered into by an insured and rendered judgment worth some $8 million. In another significant Texas Supreme Court win, Jack obtained a writ of mandamus vacating an intermediate court's order compelling arbitration in France. This seminal decision established for the first time in Texas specific standards under which nonsignatories may be compelled to arbitrate (In re Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc., 166 S.W.3d 732 (Tex. 2005)).
Jack also recently persuaded a Texas court of appeals to reverse and render a multimillion dollar judgment in a suit for breach of contract and warranty related to riser tensioner systems for offshore drilling rigs and successfully defended against the plaintiffs' cross-appeal of claims denied by the trial court (Baroid Equipment Inc. v. Odeco Drilling, Inc., 184 S.W.3d 1 (Tex. App. - Houston [1st Dist.] 2005, pet. denied)).
Other notable victories in the Texas Supreme Court include Crown Central Petroleum Corp. v. The Honorable Carolyn Garcia, 904 S.W.2d 125 (Tex. 1995), in which the court granted a writ of mandamus and established new discovery guidelines limiting "Apex" depositions of high-level corporate officers, and Getty Oil Company v. Insurance Company of North America, et al., 845 S.W.2d 794 (Tex. 1992), a $28 million suit for breach of contract, which is a key case on both Texas res judicata law and on the relationship between indemnities and contractual additional insurance provisions.
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Texas and board certified in civil appellate law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization
Education
Rice University (B.A. 1979); The University of Texas at Austin (Texas Law Review; J.D. 1982)