About Thomas P.
Thomas P. Carnes has spent more than 3 many years in Texas legal circles, balancing court work and mediated answers. He trained first as an enterprise scholar, then as a lawyer, and his resume shows steady motion between firms and his personal practices. Colleagues describe a person who stored changing settings till he built a tradition that fit his manner of working.
Carnes earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of North Texas in 1983 and returned there to complete a MBA in 1988. He then attended the University of Houston Law Center, the place he received his Juris Doctor in 1992. The aggregate of business and law learn about appears many times in his profession choices.
His early legal years have been spent in association roles. In 1992 he labored at Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP. The following year he was with Seiler Cohn & Stebbins, and in 1995 he joined Locke Liddell & Sapp as an affiliate. Those positions supplied conventional firm knowledge across a range of things typical for junior litigators and transactional attorneys of that generation.
Carnes moved into private practice in the 2000s. He based his own practice, Thomas P. Carnes, Lawyer, in 2002. In 2004 he became a partner at Carnes Ely, LLC. By 2008 he had returned to solo practice under the name Thomas P. Carnes, Lawyer & Mediator. That transition marked a clean flip towards providing both representation and neutral dispute decision offerings from his own platform.
Professionally he participates in prepared bar activities. He has been a member of the College of the State Bar of Texas since 1997, a signal of long-time period engagement with the state bar. Since 2018 he has additionally held membership in Collaborative Divorce Texas, which aligns with his position as a mediator. He is authorized to practice in Texas.
As a lawyer and mediator, Carnes combines enterprise training and long-standing company experience. His practice has moved among traditional representation and mediation work, and he now operates as an owner-practitioner. He handles client matters from his Texas office and offers facilitated negotiation offerings as a part of his practice. He presently practices thru Thomas P. Carnes, Lawyer & Mediator, concentrating on legal representation and facilitated negotiation offerings in Texas.
