Johnny Carter has represented plaintiffs and defendants in antitrust, securities, construction, environmental, toxic tort, insurance coverage, patent infringement, employment, and commercial litigation. He has been named a "Rising Star" by Texas Monthly magazine on several occasions, and a "Professional on the Fast Track" by H Texas magazine.

Some of Mr. Carter's representative cases include:

In re Insurance Brokerage Antitrust Litigation. Lee Godfrey, Neal Manne, and Mr.Carter represent ACE Limited in this nationwide class action litigation involving alleged anticompetitive practices in the insurance industry.

In re Fleming Securities Litigation. Kenneth Marks and Mr. Carter represented a class of former shareholders of Fleming Companies, which declared bankruptcy in 2003. Plaintiffs pursued claims against former directors and officers of Fleming, various underwriters, and Fleming's auditor. Plaintiffs obtained settlements totaling $94 million ($73 million net of attorneys' fees).

In re Alcatel Securities Litigation. Stephen Susman, Kenneth S. Marks, and Mr.Carter represented a class of shareholders of Alcatel, a French telecommunications company. Plaintiffs obtained settlements totaling $75 million ($61 million net of attorneys' fees).

Duramed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories. Stephen Susman, Michael A. Lee, Mr. Carter, and Carolyn Courville represented plaintiff Duramed in this lawsuit alleging monopolization of the market for estrogen replacement and hormone replacement drugs. The parties reached a confidential settlement providing favorable terms for Susman Godfrey's client.

Hercules Inc. v. One Beacon America Insurance. H. Lee Godfrey, Neal S. Manne, Vineet Bhatia, and Mr. Carter represented Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London and Certain Insurance Companies in the London Market in this asbestos litigation coverage dispute with Hercules Incorporated. Mr.Carter's briefing resulted in a ruling on deductible issues which saved the client millions of dollars. Hercules Incorporated v. OneBeacon America Ins. Co., 852 A.2d 33 (Del. Super. Ct. 2004).

FMC International A.G. v. ABB Lummus Global Inc. Trey Peacock and Mr.Carter represent ABB Lummus Global Inc. in this ongoing construction litigation. In July 2005, Mr. Carter's briefing resulted in dismissal of a tort cause of action on which FMC had based a $90 million damages claim. FMC International A.G. v. ABB Lummus Global Inc., 2005 WL 1745465 (S.D. Tex. July 22, 2005). In January 2006, Mr. Carter's briefing resulted in dismissal of a RICO cause of action on which FMC had based a claim for more than $25 million in damages. FMC International A.G. v. ABB Lummus Global Inc., 2006 WL 213948 (S.D. Tex. Jan. 25, 2006).

National Health Systems, Inc. v. Bergen Brunswig Drug Co. Steve Susman, Ophelia Camina, and Mr. Carter represented AmerisourceBergen Drug Corporation in this case in which the opposing party, National Health Systems, sought over $30 million in damages. The case was arbitrated over two weeks in January 2004. Mr. Carter handled damages issues at the arbitration hearing, and the arbitration panel awarded no damages to the opposing party, National Health Systems.

Banana Worker Litigation. For many years, Susman Godfrey and several other firms represented foreign banana workers who had been sterilized by exposure to a nematocide called dibromochloropropane (DBCP), which had been used on banana plantations throughout the 1960's and 1970's. The workers asserted claims against various banana growers and manufacturers of DBCP. Throughout the 1980's and 1990's, banana worker cases throughout the United States, brought by many different law firms, were routinely dismissed on the basis of forum non conveniens (inconvenient forum). However, on the strength of Mr. Carter's briefing, plaintiffs in a case called Canales Martinez v. Dow Chemical Co. were able for the first time to defeat forum non conveniens dismissal. Canales Martinez v. Dow Chem. Co., 219 F. Supp. 2d 719 (E.D. La. 2002). Mr. Carter's briefing also persuaded another district court to revive a previously-dismissed case by remanding it to state court for possible reinstatement in U.S. courts. Delgado v. Shell Oil Co., 322 F. Supp. 2d 798 (S.D. Tex. 2004).

Horton v. City of Houston. Mr. Carter represented Houston MediaSource, a cable access provider. MediaSource was sued by a white-supremacist group objecting on First Amendment grounds to MediaSource's requirement that the group pay a fee in order to broadcast its programming. Mr. Carter and another Susman Godfrey attorney tried the case in August 2001. They were successful at trial, and the Fifth Circuit subsequently upheld the judgment in favor of MediaSource.

Winthrop v. Seitel. Geoffrey Harrison and Mr. Carter represented a leasing company that had been hit with an ex parte temporary restraining order, so that it could not repossess millions of dollars of equipment that the lessee was not paying for. After expedited discovery and a one-day bench trial, Mr.Harrison and Mr.Carter persuaded a Texas court to deny the lessee's request for an injunction and to dismiss the lessee's entire lawsuit. The case settled a few months later, with the lessee agreeing to pay over $7.8 million plus attorney's fees.

Mr. Carter grew up in Wichita Falls, Texas. He graduated from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls in 1993. In 2006, Mr. Carter was named the Outstanding Alumnus of Midwestern State's Prothro-Yeager College of Humanities and Social Services.

Mr. Carter attended the University of Texas School of Law, where he graduated with honors in 1996. Mr. Carter was Managing Editor of Texas Law Review, which published his note: "To Provide for the Legal Defense: Legal Defense Funds and Federal Ethics Law," 74 Texas Law Review 147 (1995).

After graduation, Mr. Carter clerked for one year for the Texas Sixth Court of Appeals in Texarkana, Texas. Mr. Carter then clerked for one year for Hon. George P. Kazen, Chief Judge of the Southern District of Texas. Federal Lawyer published a profile of Judge Kazen authored by Mr. Carter, "Judicial Profile: George P. Kazen," Federal Lawyer, vol. 49, Nov./Dec. 2002, p. 20.

Mr. Carter joined Susman Godfrey in 1998, and was named a partner in 2002. Mr.Carter and his wife Nataya have twin boys, Ethan and Casey.

Mr. Carter is a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation.