
Kirte M. Kinser
Location: Plano, Texas
Phone: 214-387-9100
Fax: 214-387-9125
Email: Email Me
Kirte M. Kinser represents emerging, growing and established businesses and individuals in civil disputes involving numerous areas of the law, including contracts, secured lending, leases, employment and non-competition agreements, fiduciary duty, business torts, fraud, constitutional law, defamation, real estate, franchise, intellectual property, fair credit, deceptive trade practices, oil and gas, and many others.
Kirte focuses his practice on the avoidance, management and resolution of disputes across a broad spectrum of industry and business segments, including banking and lending, financial services, real estate development and sales, hospitality, health and healthcare providers, communications and entertainment, franchisors and franchisees, services, retailers, and others.
Since 2000, Kirte has had an active, wide-ranging mediation and alternative dispute resolution practice as a court-appointed neutral in a broad spectrum of disputes. Kirte takes an adaptive approach to dispute resolution, establishing an environment and process unique to each particular case.
Skilled as an advocate, Kirte has a depth of knowledge and experience to deftly assist the parties in every case to reach a mutual agreement on their terms, not his, whether it is an automobile accident or a multimillion-dollar business dispute.
Areas of Practice
- Litigation
Commercial
Intellectual Property
Contracts
Employment and Post-employment
Franchise
Real Estate
Business Entities and Owners
Trade Secrets
Business Torts
Alternative Dispute Resolution - Transactional
Business Entity Formation and Governance
Non-profit Formation and Governance
Commercial Contracts
Employment and Post-employment Agreements
Other contracts
Bar Admissions
- Texas, 1987
- Missouri, 1984 (inactive)
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits
- U.S. District Court for the Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern Districts of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma
Education
- Southern Methodist University School of Law, Dallas, Texas
J.D., cum laude – 1984
Order of the Coif; Managing Editor, Annual Survey of Texas Law; Southwestern Law Journal; Hatton W. Sumners Scholar - University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City-Missouri
B.B.A. – 1981
Honors and Awards
- Texas Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters legal division, 2003, 2005
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Association of Attorney Mediators, Vice-Chair, North Texas Chapter, 2010
- Federal Bar Association ADR Section, Vice-Chair, 2009-2010
- Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Member
- National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Faculty
- State Bar of Texas, Member
- Dallas Bar Association, Member
- The Missouri Bar, Member (Inactive)
Public and Community Service
- U.S. Senator John C. Danforth (MO), Assistant, 1979-1981
- Board of Directors, Angels Touch, Inc., Member, 2018-
- Board of Directors, Victim Relief Ministries, Inc., Chairman, 2018-
- Advisory Board, GivePay Commerce, Member 2017 –
- Marriage Boot Camp, Program Co-Director 2016-2017
- Advisory Council, nonpareil Institute, Inc., Member, 2018-
- Board of Governors, Presbyterian Hospital of Rockwall, Chair 2007-2013
- Board of Director, Rockwall Area Chamber of Commerce, Member, 2005-2007
- Leadership Rockwall Alumni Board, Chair, 2004-05, 2006-07