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# Carson W. Schwertner

Role: Associate

Carson is an advocate with a disciplined focus on what matters most to his clients. As a judicial clerk at Texas’s Fifteenth Court of Appeals, he saw firsthand how judges decide disputes and what separates a winning case from a losing one. He approaches every matter with the endgame in mind, from the first filing through appeal.

## Responsive and Strategic Advocacy

Before joining Stone Hilton, Carson clerked for Justice Scott K. Field of Texas’s Fifteenth Court of Appeals, a statewide court that hears cases involving state agencies and officials, constitutional challenges to Texas statutes, and appeals from the Texas Business Court. There, he helped draft opinions and prepare for oral arguments in Austin and across the State, learning to spot dispositive issues, weigh competing arguments, and write with precision and force.

In law school, Carson interned at two national plaintiff-side firms, where he helped litigate mass torts and class actions involving environmental contamination and defective products. He also interned at the Consumer Protection Division of the Texas Attorney General’s Office, participating in a Deceptive Trade Practices Act jury trial and developing claims in pharmaceutical litigation. He then studied abroad at the University of Nottingham School of Law in England, where he completed writing seminars on international and comparative law.

## Outside the Office

Carson enjoys spending time with his family and friends, playing golf, and running the trails at Lady Bird Lake. An avid reader of ancient philosophy, he regularly returns to Plato, Cicero, and Marcus Aurelius.

## Experience

### Law Clerk to Justice Scott K. Field

Texas Court of Appeals for the Fifteenth District

## Education

### Symposium Editor, Texas Review of Law & Politics; Semester Exchange Program, University of Nottingham School of Law

J.D., University of Texas School of Law

### B.A, University of Virginia

Foreign Affairs; Minor in Business Entrepreneurship and Innovation

## Admissions

- All Courts of the State of Texas

## Memberships

- State Bar of Texas
- Williamson County Inn of Court
- Austin Bar Association
- Austin Young Lawyers Association
- Federalist Society