Craig D. Cherry

Craig Cherry is an award-winning trial lawyer and trusted advisor to his clients. He has obtained significant settlements and verdicts for his clients throughout the country. When it comes to litigation and trial strategy, Craig is regularly recognized by his peers as being at the top of the list.

Craig Cherry is an award-winning trial lawyer and trusted advisor to his clients. He has obtained significant settlements and verdicts for his clients throughout the country. When it comes to litigation and trial strategy, Craig is regularly recognized by his peers as being at the top of the list.

Craig focuses his practice on complex civil litigation in multiple areas including business litigation, intellectual property litigation, class action litigation, catastrophic personal injury litigation, and wrongful death litigation. Craig has successfully represented clients throughout the United States and in Europe.

Craig has repeatedly been named and recognized in The Best Lawyers in America by U.S. News & World Report (2021 – 2024).  He has also been recognized by his peers as a Super Lawyer for over 10 years (2013 – 2023) and, prior to that, as a Rising Star from 2005 – 2013.  Craig has also been named as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers by The National Trial Lawyers (2015 – 2023) and, prior to that, as one of the Top 40 Under 40 trial lawyers by The National Trial Lawyers (2012 – 2014). Craig was also invited to become a Fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America, a trial lawyer honorary society composed of less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. He was honored to receive the Tom Garner Award in 2023 by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, which recognizes a TBLS volunteer “who best epitomizes the best ideals of voluntary service by their knowledge, dedication, hard work and integrity.”

Craig is Board Certified in Civil Trial Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He is also Board Certified in both Civil Trial Law and Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Craig has also been appointed by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization to serve as a Member of the Personal Injury Trial Law Exam Commission and the Civil Trial Law Advisory Commission.

Craig has also earned and maintained an AV Preeminent peer-review rating from Martindale-Hubbell, signifying the highest level of professional excellence based upon peer-review evaluation from lawyers and judges who have observed his legal skill and ethical standards.

In addition to his success in the courtroom, Craig has served as a Director of the State Bar of Texas, a Director of The Texas Lyceum, a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation and he has also served on the Board of the Alliance for Judicial Funding, Inc., a nonprofit, nonpartisan group that assists the legislative efforts of the state judiciary.  He has also served as the President of the Abner V. McCall American Inn of Court (2014 – 2016). Outside of his volunteer activities in the legal profession, Craig is active with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the Operation Integration Toy Drive.

• Lead counsel for a Texas company with manufacturing and marketing operations and subsidiaries in the United States and in Europe. Craig’s client sued a distributor for breach of contract, trade secret misappropriation and trademark infringement, with cases pending simultaneously in France and in federal court in the United States. The case settled favorably for Craig’s client for a confidential sum.
• Co-lead counsel for a Louisiana company that brought breach of contract and fraud claims against one of the largest oil and gas companies in the world. The case involved a complicated supply chain of unique materials from Florida that were used at a refinery in Texas. After two days of evidence before a three-member arbitration panel, the case settled favorably for Craig’s client for a confidential sum.
• Lead counsel for the plaintiff and her parents in a trial against one of the largest trucking companies in the nation. The trucking company argued that its global positioning satellite (GPS) data demonstrated that none of its trucks could have been involved in a wreck that injured the plaintiff and killed her sister. Craig and his co-counsel demonstrated that the company’s GPS data was inaccurate and unreliable. The jury agreed and returned a verdict in favor of Craig’s clients. The case settled favorably for Craig’s clients for a confidential sum.
• Lead counsel for three defendants accused of being involved in a conspiracy to defraud the plaintiffs of several million dollars. After taking the plaintiff’s deposition and developing forensic accounting evidence which defeated plaintiff’s allegations, the case was resolved favorably for Craig’s clients without them ever being deposed.
• Lead counsel and successfully defended one of the largest aerial lift manufacturers in the world in a multi-million dollar commercial case involving allegations of breach of contract and tortious interference with contract.
• Lead counsel for the parents of a minor who suffered a traumatic brain injury. Craig sued multiple defendants involved in the operations of an athletic facility, as well as, the design of the facility. After Craig was hired, the case was resolved and Craig doubled the amount of the recovery his clients originally expected to receive after getting prior legal advice from another attorney.
• Lead counsel for a city against multiple defendants involved in the design and construction of a city water well that failed to operate properly. Originally, the defendants refused to pay anything to address the operational issues with the water well. After Craig developed evidence of improper drilling procedures and testing utilized by some of the defendants, the case settled favorably for Craig’s client.
• Lead counsel for a worker who was blinded when a spring broke on equipment he was using and shot into his eye. Multiple defendants were involved in this product liability case and Craig developed evidence that a supplier had been submitting false invoices and selling the manufacturer of the equipment the wrong spring design for over 15 years. The case settled favorably for Craig’s client for a confidential sum.
• Co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs in the first case in the United States where a jury returned a verdict that a motor coach bus was unsafe because it did not have seat belts or safety glass to protect passengers. The case settled favorably for Craig’s clients for a confidential sum.