Reynolds Frizzell LLP

Commercial Litigation

Trial Partner

With over three decades of experience and dozens of successful trials and arbitrations, Chris Reynolds is the consummate trial attorney. A competitor described Chris to Benchmark Litigation as “unbelievably smart, one of the smartest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing, very ethical.” Chris focuses exclusively on complex commercial and business litigation and arbitration. Because his undergraduate degree was in civil engineering, he is particularly adept at representing clients in highly technical industries, such as oil and gas, electricity generation and trading, engineering and construction, and software technology. He has also, on multiple occasions, served as an arbitrator or mediator in complex commercial litigation. These experiences have enriched his understanding of both arbitration and mediation by providing him with “behind-the-scenes” views of these two forms of ADR.

A Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and Member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, Chris has successfully resolved high-stakes disputes of nearly every description—all while continuing to personally manage his cases. His hands-on style stands apart from his peers, and clients laud his “personal touch and sense of personal investment” in their matters. To bring that level of attention to each dispute, Chris often starts work around 5 a.m., making him a favorite of many European-based clients. Chris knows that painstaking preparation is central to the job of a trial lawyer.

Chris has been honored as a Chambers USA Leading Individual in Commercial Litigation and Energy & Natural Resources, as a Top 100 Super Lawyer by Thomson Reuters, as a Client Service All-Star by BTI Consulting, and as one of the Best Lawyers in America for “Bet-the-Company” Litigation and Commercial Litigation by Woodward White, Inc. Chris practiced at Gibbs & Bruns LLP and its predecessors for over twenty-six years before co-founding Reynolds Frizzell LLP in 2009. Chris is proud of the reputation for smart, winning advocacy accompanied by a commitment to the highest ethical standards that Reynolds Frizzell has established with the courts, its clients and its competitors. He remains committed to maintaining and building upon that reputation.

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American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), Member Texas Bar Foundation, Member Salem Lutheran School, Board Member Concordia Lutheran High School, Board Member

The University of Texas School of Law J.D., with Honors, 1982 Order of the Coif Texas Law Review The University of Texas at Austin B.S., Civil Engineering, with Honors, 1980 Tau Beta Pi Chi Epsilon