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Mr. Kroemer's practice is concentrated in complex business litigation. He has tried a number of cases in state and federal court both in Texas and around the country in such diverse areas as oil and gas, environmental impairment, real estate, insurance and reinsurance, securities, products liability, professional malpractice involving architects and engineers, insurance agents and brokers, real estate agents and brokers, and directors' and officers' liability.
Mr. Kroemer is the senior member of the Firm's litigation section. Prior to going to law school, Mr. Kroemer was a structural engineer in the Experimental Engineering Department at Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Division of United Technologies Corporation. He performed structural engineering on advance designs of gas turbines (jet engines) primarily for military aircraft.
After graduating from law school, Mr. Kroemer was employed by the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division in the Attorney General's Honors Program. He served for five years in Atlanta before moving to Dallas in 1975 to help open the Division's new regional office where he spent another five years. As a Senior Trial Attorney for the Antitrust Division, Mr. Kroemer was in charge of a number of high profile antitrust prosecutions, ultimately becoming responsible for some of the largest and most complex cases in the Division, including the corrugated container case in Houston. The follow-on class action civil litigation against the corrugated box manufacturers ultimately yielded over $600 Million in settlements.
Mr. Kroemer left the Antitrust Division in 1979 and has been engaged in private practice since that time. He has been involved in several major directors' and officers' liability actions and securities fraud suits involving billions of dollars in claims with hundreds of depositions and millions of documents. These cases have often involved multinational corporations with parties from several countries including Mexico, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Over the years he has been in private practice, Mr. Kroemer has also tried cases for many Fortune 1000 companies. He has represented insurance companies, including The Hartford, CNA, Underwriters at Lloyds, and various aviation insurers. He has represented major independent oil companies, including Oryx Energy Company and Kerr-McGee Corporation, banks, including the First National Bank of Atlanta (now Wachovia National Bank), agribusinesses like Conagra, and many others.
In his free time, Mr. Kroemer enjoys restoring and driving antique cars and working at his horse farm.
Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from
Georgia Institute of Technology (1966)
Juris Doctor (with Honors) from University of Connecticut (1970)
Lecturer in law -- Georgia State University (1972-1974)
Lecturer in law -- Southern Methodist University (1976-1977)
Supreme Court of the State of Connecticut (1970)
Supreme Court of the State of Texas (1979)
United States Supreme Court
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth, Ninth,
and Eleventh Circuits
United States District Court for the Northern, Eastern,
and Western Districts of Texas
U.S. v. Pena-Rodriguez, 110 F.3d 1120 (5th Cir. 1997)
Triton Energy Corp. v. Square D Co., 68 F.3d 1216 (9th Cir. 1995)
U.S. v. Fidelity and Deposit Co. of Maryland, 813 F.2d 697, (5th Cir. 1987)
Harris v. Sentry Title Co., Inc., 806 F.2d 1278 (5th Cir. 1987)
Harris v. Sentry Title Co., Inc., 727 F.2d 1368 (5th Cir. 1984)
Harris v. Sentry Title Co., Inc., 715 F.2d 941 (5th Cir. 1983)
Woods-Tucker Leasing Corp. of Georgia v. Hutcheson-Ingram
Development Co., 642 F.2d 744, (5th Cir. 1981)
U.S. v. International Paper Co., 457 F.Supp. 571 (S.D.Tex. 1978)
Oryx Energy Co. v. Shelton, 942 S.W.2d 637 (Tex.App.-Tyler 1996)
Rhodessa Development Co. v. Simpson, 658 S.W.2d 218
(Tex.App.-El Paso 1983)
Harwath v. Hudson, 654 S.W.2d 851 (Tex.App.-Dallas 1983)
W. T. Center & Bro. v. Oryx Energy Co., 5 S.W.3d 704
(Tex.App.-San Antonio 1999)
Texas Bar Foundation
State Bar of Texas
Dallas Bar Association
Certified as a Mediator by the American Academy of
Attorney-Mediators, Inc.
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