Enoch

Craig T. Enoch returned to private practice after retiring from decades of service on Texas courts, where he decided complex civil matters as a Supreme Court Justice, Appellate Court Chief Justice and Trial Court Presiding Judge. Drawing on extensive knowledge of governmental workings and experience in resolving disputes, Justice Enoch assists businesses in navigating complex laws and regulations. He co-founded his previous firm to provide effective advocacy for businesses at their intersection with government.

• Administrative & Regulatory Law
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Appellate & Written Advocacy
• Business Torts & Unfair Competition
• Commercial Litigation
• Construction & Building Products Litigation
• Corporate Governance
• Economic Development
• Election & Campaign Finance
• Governmental Litigation
• Insurance
• Machinery & Recreational Product Litigation
• Redistricting & Voting Rights
• Tort, Transportation & Specialized Litigation
• White Collar, Compliance & Government Investigations

• Construction
• Energy

• Served as a Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, Chief Justice of Texas’s Fifth District Court of Appeals, and Presiding Judge of Texas’s 101st District Court, for a total of 22 years in the judiciary. Decided matters ranging from disputes over utility construction and purchase contracts to employee benefit agreements and estate claims.
• After retirement, returned to private practice and established specialized Appellate and Government Enforcement and Regulated Industries Litigation Practice groups for a major regional law firm headquartered in Dallas and carried that practice into a specialized firm founded in 2011.
• Successfully defended business investor against a $100 Million international claim brought in federal court. Services provided included not only litigation and appellate representation, but successful legislative representation before a state legislative body.
• Devise effective trial and appellate strategy for representing clients in state and federal courts.
• Facilitate alternative dispute resolution.
• Advise clients on public/private partnership strategy and development.
• Consult with businesses on partnership and corporate duties and professional ethics.
• Successfully resolved business dispute with innovative management restructuring.
• Represents businesses before courts and administrative bodies, as well as during investigations by state attorneys general, and assists those businesses with regulatory compliance.
• Successfully represented commercial collections service in responding to attorney general inquiry into certain business practices.
• Specializes in business strategy and representation in government relations.
• Successfully represented a co-op electric provider in a legislative effort to amend certain statutes to facilitate contracts for water for electric power production.
• Developed noted expertise on the existence, nature, and extent of fiduciary obligations.
• Review legislative proposals and advocate on behalf of legislative proponents before the Texas Legislature.
• Serve as intermediary in sensitive economic development projects.
• Successfully facilitated the establishment of headquarters for new U.S. military command.

• Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Board Certified in Civil Trial Law
• BL Rankings, The Best Lawyers in America®
  • Appellate Practice, 2008-2025
• Thomson Reuters Super Lawyers®
  • Texas Super Lawyer, Appellate, 2005-2024
• Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business
  • Texas, 2010-2024
• Texas Bar Foundation, Gregory S. Coleman Outstanding Appellate Lawyer Award, 2024
• Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievement Award, 2020
• Austin Chamber of Commerce, Volunteer of the Year: Economic Development, 2018
• Texas Monthly, Top Attorneys in Texas, 2011-2013
• Texas Tech Law Review, Outstanding Lead Article Award, 2006–2007
• Southern Methodist University, Distinguished Alum, 2006
• American Bar Association, J. Edward Finch Law Day Speech Award, 2001
• Texas Equal Access to Justice, Harold F. Kleinman Award, 2000
• SMU Dedman School of Law, Distinguished Law Alum, 1999

• Texas, 1975
• U.S. District Courts
  • Texas: Eastern, Northern, Western
• U.S. Court of Appeals
  • 5th Circuit
  • 7th Circuit
  • 9th Circuit
• U.S. Supreme Court

• University of Virginia School of Law, LL.M., 1992
  • Class Co-President
• Southern Methodist University School of Law, J.D., 1975
  • Established Kathryn Barker Enoch Research Fund
  • Member Executive Advisory Board
• Southern Methodist University, B.A., Political Science, 1972
  • Student Chair of housing program development for on-campus fraternity housing
  • Co-Chair Class of ’72, 40th Homecoming, largest class gift

• American Law Institute, Elected Member
• Appellate Judges Education Institute (President Emeritus and former Board member)
• American Bar Association
  • Appellate Judges Conference (former Chair and Council member)
  • Litigation Section
• State Bar of Texas
  • Appellate Section
  • Judicial Section
  • Litigation Section (former Chair and Council member)
• Texas Bar College
• Austin Bar Association
  • Civil Appellate Section
• Texas Judicial Districts Board, 2008–2019

• The Rule of Law
• Judicial Independence and Selection
• Public–Private Partnerships
• Texas Supreme Court decisions
• Fiduciary and Ethical Obligations
• Trial and Appellate Procedures and Best Practices
• The View from the Trenches: A Report on the Breakout Sessions at the 2005 National Conference on Appellate Justice

• Christ Church Austin (Small Group Co-leader)
• Austin Chamber of Commerce (Member and former Chair of the Board of Directors)
• Helping Hand Home for Children, Community Advisory Board
• Salvation Army – Central Texas Region, Community Advisory Board (term commencing January 2025)
• City of Austin Bond Election Advisory Task Force, 2012