About Edward B. Carter
Edward B. Carter Jr. has practiced regulation for many years after finishing his law school training at Widener University Delaware School of Law, where he earned his J.D. in 1976. He graduated from Duke University in 1968 with a B.A., then moved into private practice in Delaware. Those early academic years framed a professional life spent largely in courtroom work and bar exercise.
He is an extended-status member of Kimmel, Carter, Roman, Peltz & O Neill. Over the years he has treated matters that brought him earlier than state and federal tribunals. His work has been tied closely to civil wrong and coverage litigation and to employees’ compensation matters, areas mirrored in his expert committee roles. He also served as Vice Chairman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware Workers Compensation Committee from 1992 to 1995, a submit that prefaced later leadership within the bench-and-bar community.
Carter’s involvement in bar organizations has been steady. He is presently Chairman of the Workers Compensation Committee for the U.S. District Court, District of Delaware. He serves at the board of the Delaware Trial Lawyers Association and is Co-Chairman of its Continuing Legal Education Committee. He sits as a trustee at the Lawyer’s Fund for Client Protection of the Delaware Supreme Court and remains active within the Delaware State Bar Association, where he participates in the Torts and Insurance Committee. On a countrywide level he has maintained memberships within the American Bar Association since 1994 and the American Trial Lawyers Association since 2003.
Peers and younger attorneys have encountered him most frequently in the context of ongoing legal training and committee meetings. He has spent decades assisting plan CLE programming for trial lawyers in Delaware and has been concerned within the management of the client protection fund that serves the state’s bar. Those things to do have kept him related to changes in evidentiary practice, trial procedure, and the evolving regulation of work injury.
He maintains an office in the Plaza 273 Building on the junction of I-ninety five and Route 273. In day-to-day practice he seems in Delaware courts and on panels addressing workers’ compensation and civil trial things. His recent practice makes a speciality of workers’ damages and civil trial work.
