Clint A. Corrie

Clint Corrie's practice involves a broad range of litigation and arbitration in state and federal courts and before national and international arbitral tribunals. His practice is primarily in complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on banking, securities litigation and arbitration. He has tried jury and non-jury trials in state and federal court and before arbitral tribunals, and he has particular experience prosecuting and defending injunctions and extraordinary relief cases. Mr. Corrie also has substantial experience in product liability and insurance matters.

• Wake Forest University School of Law (J.D.)
  Honors:  
  • National Mock Trial Competition Team
  • Student Trial Bar Council
  • President, International Law Society
  • Phi Alpha Delta
  Law Journal: American Journal of International Law,
  Co-Editor-In-Chief
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.A., with honors)

• Texas
• U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit

• Represented the largest producing registered representative of a national broker-dealer in a series of customer claims alleging improper allocations in mutual funds and variable annuities and failure to monitor
• Represented a broker and investment advisor and a broker-dealer in a series of state and federal court and arbitration cases involving allegations of unsuitability, violations of insurance law, and failure to supervise a broker in the sale of and allocations within variable annuities sold to multiple customers
• Served as lead counsel for FDIC in a number of D&O and professional liability claim cases dealing with failed banks
• Represented a current and former broker-dealer and brokers in connection with suitability claims in equities accounts, and securities violations, including control person liability, in private equity limited liability partnerships managed by principals of the broker-dealer
• Represented a pharmaceutical manufacturer in numerous cases in Texas state courts involving a drug to treat Type II diabetes
• Represented a manufacturer of lifting devices for the maritime industry before the International Chamber of Commerce Courts in Paris and in state and appellate courts in Texas. Arbitration involved allegations of breach of contract and fraud against a foreign contractor in the bidding process of a subcontract for a luxury cruise liner
• Represented an insurance carrier in a coverage dispute with an insured securities firm over a fidelity bond involving allegations of bad faith and fraud by the insured
• Defended at trial a manufacturer in a suit involving the rollover of an SUV with severe injuries to the occupants
• Represented a foreign automobile manufacturer in a wrongful death case alleging defective passive restraint seat belts
• Represented an international automotive products company against allegations by syndicated lenders that the company violated covenants of its master loan agreement by failing to timely disclose the bankruptcy of its German subsidiary
• Represented the head of OTC trading for a regional securities firm in a breach of contract case before an NASD arbitration tribunal
• Represented a sovereign state department of real estate in a challenge to the constitutionality of their real estate licensing laws by an unlicensed out of state company at trial and on appeal to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

• "Objecting to and Limiting the Use of Regulatory Documents in Arbitration and Litigation Cases," Practicing Law Institute Course Handbook Series, Securities Arbitration Institute, PLI, August  2010
• "Investment Advisers and Brokers: When is a Broker Subject to Fiduciary Duties," Practicing Law Institute Course Handbook Series, Securities Arbitration Institute, PLI, August 2009
• "Market- Timing, Late Trading and Market Manipulation," Practicing Law Institute Course Handbook Series, Securities Arbitration Institute, PLI, August 2009
• "Record Retention Requirements in Securities Litigation and Arbitration," Practicing Law Institute Course Handbook Series, Securities Arbitration Institute, PLI , August 2008
• "Securities Arbitration and Insurance: When Worlds Collide, " Practicing Law Institute Course Handbook Series, Securities Arbitration Institute, PLI, August 2008
• "Challenges in International Arbitration for Non-Signatories," Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business, Vol. 29, 2007, Kluwer Law International
• "International Arbitration Clauses Keep Trading Partners on Track,"  Houston Business Journal, April 25, 2003
• "Be Cautious with International Arbitration Clauses,"  Dallas Business Journal, July 11, 2003
• "Now You See It, Now You Don't: Is D&O Insurance for Bankers Disappearing?" Chapter in The D & O Book by Griffin Communications:  A Comparison Guide to Director and Officer Liability Policies, 1994

• Charles T. Kivett, Superior Court North Carolina, Judicial Internship
• Richard Erwin, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, Judicial Internship

• University of North Carolina Global Education Center
  -  Advisory Board
• State Bar of Texas
  -  Litigation Section
• Texas Bar Foundation
  -  Fellow
• American Bar Association
  -  Banking Section, Payments and Electronic Banking
     Committee
  -  Business Law Section, Securities, Capital Markets, and
     Derivatives and Enforcement, Director Liability, and
     Troubled Banks Committees
• Dallas Bar Association
  -  Securities Section
• Dallas Bar Association
  -  Tort and Insurance Section
• Dallas Bar Association
  -  Business Litigation Section
• Defense Research Institute
  -  Products Liability Committee
• Texas Association of Defense Counsel
• Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association
  -  Legal and Compliance Section

• "Global Regulatory Convergence and Securities Litigation Involving Foreign Investors in U.S. Courts," Center for International Studies, Salzburg, Austria, June 2010
• Panel Moderator, "Recent Developments in International Arbitration," Center for International Legal Studies, Salzburg, Austria, June 2006
• Speaker/Author, "Challenges in International Arbitration For Non-Signatories," Center for International Legal Studies, Salzburg, Austria , June 2006
• "Product Liability Implications of Cross-Border Transactions and Accidents,"  Center for International Legal Studies, Whistler, Canada, 2005