Austin Krist

- Successfully obtained multi-million-dollar jury verdict in a breach-of-contract and fraud case related to a disputed ownership interest in an Austin technology company.

- Successfully represented a Texas business owner who sold his company to an accounting firm in Alabama, defeating more than $30 million in fraud and breach-of-contract claims and obtaining an award of over $1.5 million in federal court in Alabama.

- Successfully defended Austin business owners and obtained unanimous take-nothing judgment after week-long trial in Texas state court on breach-of-contract and fraud claims seeking millions of dollars in damages in connection with sale of company.

- Successfully represented Texas business owner and obtained jury verdict awarding full damages in contentious business separation case after week-long trial in Texas state court.

- Secured dismissal of patent claims and grant of summary judgment on claims for misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, and tortious interference involving electro-therapeutic treatment equipment and procedures in federal court in Minnesota.

- Successfully defeated $2.5 million in tortious-interference claims related to business-divorce litigation removed to federal bankruptcy court.

- Successfully secured dismissal of conversion, fraud, and RICO claims asserted against a Texas business owner in federal court in California.

- Successfully secured dismissal of claims for patent infringement, unfair competition, tortious interference, and fraud asserted by foreign corporation against an Austin business owner in federal court.

- Successfully obtained order granting nondischargeability of entire bankruptcy case after bench trial in federal court and prevailed in subsequent appeal.

- Successfully secured dismissal of defamation action in federal court in Texas.

- Secured resolution and dismissal of business divorce action involving over $1 million in breach-of-contract and fraud claims in state court in Texas.

Columbia Law School

J.D., with honors

2013 - 2016

Vanderbilt University

B.A., magna cum laude

2009 - 2013