Chris Schwegmann practices business litigation with an emphasis on intellectual property issues. He approaches each case with a creative eye, always searching for the most efficient solution to his clients' business problems.
He also gets results. Chris has successfully represented clients in significant disputes involving claims of trade secret misappropriation, trademark and copyright infringement, and other business torts involving intellectual property in both state and federal court. He also has broad experience representing clients in complex commercial litigation, including class actions. Some representative cases include:
· Defended a medical imaging company in a multi-million dollar, bet-the-company arbitration involving a material-adverse-effect clause in an asset purchase agreement. After a two-week arbitration, Chris obtained a take-nothing judgment in favor of his client from a three-judge panel of arbitrators.
· Defended a printing company in a landlord tenant dispute in state court against a landlord claiming substantial damages. After a week-long jury trial, Chris obtained a take-nothing judgment against the landlord and recovered damages on a counterclaim and all of the tenant’s attorneys’ fees.
· Represented a cosmetics company in various state and federal lawsuits involving trademark infringement and false advertising claims against unauthorized retailers of the company’s brand named cosmetics. Chris has obtained injunctive relief against these retailers, and in one case, obtained a judgment for $1.3 million after a two-week jury trial in federal court.
· Successfully represented various litigants in the Courts of Appeals. Recent published opinions include: Budd v. Max International, LLC, __ S.W.3d __, 2011 WL 1680087 (Tex. App.—Dallas 2011) (involving an arbitration dispute) and Nexus Recovery Center, Inc. v. Mathis, 336 S.W.3d 360 (Tex. App.—Dallas 2011) (involving a "health care liability” claim).
Chris joined the firm in 2005. Prior to joining Lynn Tillotson Pinker & Cox, LLP, Chris practiced commercial litigation in the New York office of Cravath, Swain & Moore, LLP. He has been named a "Rising Star” in business litigation by Law & Politics magazine (as seen in Texas Monthly) in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.
Chris graduated cum laude from the New York University School of Law in 2001, and summa cum laude from Southern Methodist University in 1997. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Joe Kendall and to the Honorable Sam A. Lindsay, both of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
