• Trial
  • Antitrust and Trade Litigation
  • Class Action Defense
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Intellectual Property Litigation
• Antitrust Specialty Practice Group

A well-known trial lawyer who is listed in  Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business  in Antitrust in Texas and is recognized in  The Best Lawyers in America  in both Litigation - Antitrust and Commercial Litigation by Woodward/White Inc., Curt Frisbie has more than 40 years of trial experience. He handles major antitrust and other commercial litigation matters such as shareholder derivative actions, and patent, trademark, and copyright cases. He has substantial experience defending class action cases involving antitrust, RICO, insurance, and other claims. Mr. Frisbie also advises businesses on pricing plans, distributor agreements, and antitrust corporate compliance programs.

Mr. Frisbie has represented, among many others:

• Flowers Industries Inc.
• GNC Corp.
• Jordan Reses Supply Co. LLC
• Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
• The AIG Companies
• Tyler Pipe Industries Inc.
• WPP Group plc

Mr. Frisbie has participated in the trial of 13 antitrust cases, as well as other business litigation and class action disputes, including:

• Represented Merico, a manufacturer of refrigerated dough products, and its parent, Campbell Taggart, Inc. Trial was in Dallas, Texas. Plaintiff alleged violations of the Robinson-Patman Act and an attempt to monopolize through predatory pricing. Damages of $11 million were claimed. Judgment after trial to the court was for defendants on all counts. No appeal was taken.
• Represented the various Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas companies in a jury trial in Dallas, Texas. The plaintiff challenged the reimbursement program of the defendant companies as price fixing and alleged a boycott of his practice, claiming over $3 million in damages. A directed verdict was granted for defendants on all counts. Mr. Frisbie also handled the appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the judgment was affirmed.
• Defended Furrs, Inc., a regional supermarket chain, against claims of attempted monopolization and conspiracy to restrain trade brought in the Western District of Texas. Plaintiff claimed damages in excess of $100 million. The defense involved significant exposure to international discovery issues.
• Defended Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. against monopolization claims in the long distance telephone service business. The case was won on motions in the trial court, and Mr. Frisbie made the successful argument in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
• Defended various American International Group companies as national counsel in antitrust, RICO, and various state law class actions pending in 14 states.
• Successfully tried a franchise dispute for GNC Corp. in Pittsburgh, Pa. in 2006.

• J.D., St. Mary's University School of Law (1971)
• B.S., University of Alabama (1966)
  • Business Administration

Publications

• Author, Advising the Client, Inside the Minds: Winning Antitrust Strategies, Aspatore Books, Inc. (2004).

Speeches

• Speaker, Address at Summer Breakfast Seminar, The Healthcare Industry in 2004 and Beyond, Capital Risk: Uninsured Patient Litigation Against Non-Profit Hospitals, Houston, Texas (Sept. 14, 2004).
• Speaker, Address at American Corporate Counsel Association: Contracting With Distributors: Write it Right and Save Money, Dallas, Texas (Oct. 2003).
• Speaker, Address at Litigation in a Changing Business World – Are You Ready?, Advanced Business & Commercial Litigation Course, Antitrust and Business Litigation Section, State Bar of Texas: What Every Business Litigator Needs to Know About Antitrust Laws (May 2001).
• Speaker, Address at Litigation in a Changing Business World – Are You Ready?, Advanced Business & Commercial Litigation Course, Antitrust and Business Litigation Section, State Bar of Texas: The Distribution Contract: What Should Be In It (May 2001).
• Speaker, Address at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law CLE Program – Antitrust Practice & Professionalism in the 1990s: Relationships Among Competitors – Information Exchanges (Nov. and Dec. 1995).
• Speaker, Address at Practicing Law Institute: Market Power in a Section 2 Case, San Francisco, California (1995).
• Speaker, Address at Dallas Bar Association: Distribution Contracts (Nov. 1992).
• Speaker, Address at Society of CPA’s Meeting: The Damages Expert, Dallas, Texas (June 1991).

Other Engagements

• Program Chair, High Profile Business Litigation: Practical and Ethical Issues, Antitrust and Business Litigation Section, State Bar of Texas, Houston, Texas (May 1998).

• Admitted to practice before:
  • Texas State Courts
  • U.S. District Courts for all districts of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for Northern District of Georgia
  • U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Wisconsin
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd, 5th, 8th, 10th and 11th Circuits
  • Texas Supreme Court
  • U.S. Supreme Court
• Member, State Bar of Texas
  • Antitrust and Business Litigation Section
    • Former Chair
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Dallas Bar Association
  • Antitrust & Trade Regulation Section
    • Former President
• Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
• Sustaining Life Fellow, Dallas Bar Association

• Recognized, The Best Lawyers in America (Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith eds., Woodward/White, Inc.) (2006-2013)
  • Commercial Litigation
• Recognized, The Best Lawyers in America (Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith eds., Woodward/White, Inc.) (2009-2013)
  • Litigation - Antitrust
• Recognized, Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (Tom Wicker ed., Chambers & Partners) (2004-2012)
  • Antitrust [Texas]
• Recognized, Texas Super Lawyer, Law & Politics Media Inc. as published in Texas Monthly (each year since its first publication in 2003)
  • Antitrust Litigation
• Recognized, The Best Lawyers in Dallas, D Magazine (2005, 2006)
• Recognized, The Legal 500 - United States (2009)
  • Mergers, Acquisitions & Buyouts: Antitrust - Southwest
• Recognized, Who’s Who Legal - The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers (Law Business Research Limited) (2007, 2008)
  • Competition Law
• Recognized, AV^® Preeminent^™ 5.0 out of 5 Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell^® PEER REVIEW RATINGS^™
• Recipient, Texas Outdoorsman of the Year, Beretta Gallery Texas (2005)
• Recipient, Special Achievement Award, Sustained Superior Performance, U.S. Department of Justice (1974)

• Board Member, Texas Historical Foundation
• Board Member, Dallas Woods & Waters Club
• Board Member, Dallas CASA Endowment Fund, Inc.
• Member, The Tower Club
  • Member, Ambassadors’ Council
• Former Board Member, St. Mary's Law School Alumni Association
• Former Board Member, American Heart Association, Atlanta, Ga. Chapter