"Get ready for trial, and settle. Get ready to settle, and you get a trial. –George Kolb, Texas Trial Attorney

Only a successful jury trial lawyer is taken seriously by insurers and experienced defense counsel.  Since 1992, Carl J. Kolb, P.C. has represented business, individual, and governmental clients in claims involving  professional (legal) malpractice and fiduciary duties.  The firm has consistently achieved very significant verdicts and settlements in this and numerous other areas including serious personal injury, fraud and deception, libel and slander, and business torts.  

Recent Verdicts/Settlements

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Brown v. Faseler:  $535,001.00 Jury Verdict in favor of Plaintiff in Defamation Suit:  Robin Brown, LPC brought a libel suit against Terry Faseler for falsely posting on FaceBook and on CitySearch.com that Brown’s license to practice in Texas as an LPC was revoked. In a two-day, three witness trial to a jury, the jury found that Faseler had libeled Brown and awarded $535,001.00 to compensate Brown for injury to reputation, past lost earning capacity, future lost earning capacity, and mental anguish, past and future. The award is reported by “TopVerdict” to be the third-highest defamation award by a jury in Texas for 2017.

Legal Malpractice

Legal malpractice is a shorthand reference to a number of different civil liability claims that can be asserted against a lawyer, including violations of disciplinary rules, civil statutes, criminal statutes, common-law torts including “negligence”, “breach of fiduciary duty”,  fraud and constructive fraud.   The remedies can include damages, fee forfeiture, injunctive relief, disqualification, sanctions, and professional discipline. “Legal Malpractice” includes not only claims by a client against a lawyer, but can in limited circumstances include claims by a non-client against another person’s lawyer, such as fraud and negligent misrepresentation.  Deutsch vs. Hoover, Bax & Slovacek, LLP, 97 S. W. 3d 179, 184 n.1 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2003 no pet.).
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DID YOU KNOW...

If an attorney improperly contacts you  seeking to represent you after you've been in an accident...and you retain him...by law, you are not required to pay his fees out of your recovery.  If this describes you...

Our Offices

Carl J. Kolb, P.C. • Attorneys at Law

111 Congress Ave., Ste. 500
Austin, Texas  78701
Telephone (737) 227-5573
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926 Chulie Drive
San Antonio, Texas 78216
Telephone (210) 225-6666
Facsimile (210) 225-2300

Practice Areas

  • Legal professional negligence
  • Barratry
  • Fiduciary litigation
  • Consumer and Commercial Litigation
  • Defamation
  • ​Catastrophic personal injury
  • Expert Witness

Texas Top Verdict 2012

Carl J. Kolb, P.C. receives a Texas Top Verdict in 2012


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