Lars L. Berg

BIOGRAPHY

Lars Berg represents individuals, corporations, and other institutional clients as plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of civil litigation matters, including business and commercial disputes, product liability claims, trade-secret litigation, trademark disputes, personal injury claims, employment law, and civil-rights litigation. Mr. Berg also has broad experience in professional malpractice claims and disputes among business partners and shareholders of privately-held entities.  His extensive trial experience has gained him membership in the American Board of Trial Advocates and enabled him to become board certified in personal injury trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in 2001 and re-certified in 2006, 2011, and 2016.

Mr. Berg’s professional commitment also extends to his past service on the Advisory Committee to the United States District Court, Northern District of Texas. He is the former president of the Labor and Employment Section of the Tarrant County Bar Association. He was appointed by the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas to serve on the 2009 Merit Selection Panel for the United States Magistrate Judge position in Fort Worth. The Chief Judge also appointed him to serve on the 2016 Merit Selection Panel for the United States Magistrate Judge position in Wichita Falls. 

U.S. News and World Reports have included Mr. Berg in The Best Lawyers in America®, ranking every year since 2005. From 2008 through 2024, he was named a Texas Super Lawyer by Thomson Reuters. His peers also voted Mr. Berg as among the city’s best attorneys in polls conducted by Fort Worth Magazine, and 360 West.   Mr. Berg is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

EXPERIENCE AND HIGHLIGHTS

• Recently obtained a $3.2 million dollar jury verdict in a case involving the theft of trade secrets
• Recently won a jury verdict partitioning mineral interests in Zavalla County, Texas
• Successfully prosecuted cutting-edge Internet-related trademark lawsuit
• Successfully prosecuted trade-secret and trademark-infringement lawsuit for the domestic arm of an international, privately-held entity
• Successfully prosecuted a breach-of-contract claim in an international arbitration related to an oil and gas exploration agreement
• Successfully prosecuted breach-of-contract and bad-faith claims related to a first-party insurance claim
• Successfully defended pharmaceutical company against claims that its products crippled plaintiffs
• Successfully defended defense contractor in survival and wrongful-death claims arising out of the crash of a fighter jet
• Successfully defended helicopter manufacturer in survival and wrongful-death claims arising out of crash of a commercial helicopter
• Successfully defended component part manufacturer against survival and wrongful-death claims arising out of the crash of a commercial airliner
• Successfully defended chemical manufacturer in class action lawsuit involving personal injuries and property damage caused by a spill from a rail car
• Successfully defended Fortune 500 company against multimillion dollar claims for breach of contract and fraud related to licensing agreements
• Successfully defended medical-device manufacturer against claims that its device caused serious personal injury
• Successfully prosecuted multimillion dollar breach-of-contract claim for a Fortune 500 company against a construction contractor
• Successfully prosecuted multimillion dollar medical-malpractice claim against nursing home

AFFILIATIONS

• Tarrant County Bar Foundation, Life Fellow
• Texas Bar Foundation, Sustaining Life Fellow
• College of the State Bar of Texas
• American Board of Trial Advocates
  • President, 2023-2024
  • President-Elect, 2022-2023
  • Treasurer, 2021-2022
  • Associate Member
• Board Certified, Personal Injury Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization, 2001, re-certified 2006, 2011, 2016
• Litigation Counsel of America, Trial Lawyer Honorary Society, Fellow
• Eldon B. Mahon Inn of Court, Former Barrister
• Tarrant County Bar Association, Labor and Employment Section, Former President
• Amon Carter, Jr. YMCA, Board of Managers, Former Chairman

HONORS

• AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• Best Lawyers in America®, U.S. News & World Report, 2005-2025
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Litigation | Intellectual Property
  • Litigation | Labor and Employment
  • Mass Tort Litigation | Class Actions – Plaintiffs
• Texas Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters, 2008-2024
  • Business Litigation
• Top Attorney, 360 West magazine, 2017-2024
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Product Liability Law
  • Professional Malpractice Non-Medical Defense
  • Civil Law | Litigation
• Best Lawyers® Mass Tort Litigation/Class Action Plaintiffs Lawyer of the Year Dallas/Fort Worth, 2021
• Texas Top 10 Bench Award Recipient, TopVerdict.com, 2021
• Best Lawyers® Employment Law Issue, 2021, 2022
  • Labor & Employment – Litigation
• Top Attorney, Fort Worth Magazine, 2012-2024
  • Civil Law | Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
• Top 100 Dallas/Fort Worth Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters, 2020
  • Business Litigation
• Texas Super Lawyers Rising Star, Thomson Reuters, 2004-2007
  • Business Litigation

EDUCATION

• Baylor University School of Law, J.D.
• The University of Texas, B.B.A.
• Law Clerk to Honorable John McBryde, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas

ADMISSIONS

• State Bar of Texas
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas