Chris McKinney is a trial lawyer. He has served as counsel in a wide range of matters, including insurance coverage, commercial litigation, property damage, premises liability, products liability, transportation, personal injury, wrongful death, employment litigation and appeals.

Chris is admitted to practice in all Texas trial courts and appellate courts. He is also admitted to practice in the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas. Chris currently serves on the Local Rules Advisory Committee for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

In 2011, Chris received the Jefferson County Outstanding Young Lawyer Award, which recognizes the young lawyer who has demonstrated professional proficiency, service to the profession, and service to the community.

Chris is currently serving as Immediate Past President of the Jefferson County Young Lawyers Association (“JCYLA”). He has previously served as JCYLA President, Vice President, Treasurer and director. He has also served on the Jefferson County Bar Association board of directors.
 
Chris is also President of the Evelyn M. Lord Teen Court Board, which oversees a program in which first-time juvenile offenders between the ages of 10 and 16 are given an opportunity to defer adjudication of their offenses after they appear before a jury of their peers.
 
In addition, Chris is a member of several professional organizations, including the Defense Research Institute (Trucking Law Practice Group – Insurance Coverage and New Trucking Attorneys / Young Lawyers; Lawyers’ Professionalism and Ethics Committee and Young Lawyers’ Committee), American Bar Association (Section of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law), the Texas Association of Defense Counsel, the Michelle F. Mehaffy Inn of Court, and the Texas Young Lawyers Association.

Chris graduated from the University of Kentucky in 2002, receiving a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a major in Business Management. Chris received his Juris Doctor cum laude from the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in 2005. While in law school, Chris served as the Executive Director of the Moot Court Board and as an Articles Editor for the International Law Review Association, which publishes The International Lawyer and Law & Business Review of the Americas.

Chris practices primarily in the firm's office in Beaumont.

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