About Edward B. Carter
Edward B. Carter Jr. has practiced law for decades after completing his legal education at Widener University Delaware School of Law, where he earned his J.D. in 1976. He graduated from Duke University in 1968 with a B.A., then moved into private practice in Delaware. Those early academic years framed a professional life spent largely in courtroom work and bar activity.
He is a long-standing member of Kimmel, Carter, Roman, Peltz & O Neill. Over the years he has handled matters that brought him before state and federal tribunals. His work has been tied closely to tort and insurance litigation and to workers’ compensation matters, areas reflected in his professional committee roles. He also served as Vice Chairman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware Workers Compensation Committee from 1992 to 1995, a post that prefaced later leadership within the bench-and-bar community.
Carter’s involvement in bar organizations has been steady. He is currently Chairman of the Workers Compensation Committee for the U.S. District Court, District of Delaware. He serves on the board of the Delaware Trial Lawyers Association and is Co-Chairman of its Continuing Legal Education Committee. He sits as a trustee on the Lawyer’s Fund for Client Protection of the Delaware Supreme Court and remains active in the Delaware State Bar Association, where he participates in the Torts and Insurance Committee. On a national level he has maintained memberships in the American Bar Association since 1994 and the American Trial Lawyers Association since 2003.
Peers and younger lawyers have encountered him most often in the context of continuing legal education and committee meetings. He has spent decades helping plan CLE programming for trial lawyers in Delaware and has been involved in the administration of the client protection fund that serves the state’s bar. Those activities have kept him connected to changes in evidentiary practice, trial procedure, and the evolving law of workplace injury.
He maintains an office in the Plaza 273 Building at the junction of I-95 and Route 273. In day-to-day practice he appears in Delaware courts and on panels addressing workers’ compensation and civil trial matters. His current practice focuses on workers’ compensation and civil trial work.
