About Richard
Richard M. Carter is a director at Martin, Tate, Morrow & Marston, P.C., a law firm located at 6410 Poplar Avenue, Suite 1000, Memphis, Tennessee. He has been practicing law for over 40 years, specializing in complex litigation involving commercial construction, intellectual property (patents, copyrights, and trademarks), professional liability, and serious personal injury and wrongful death cases. Throughout his career, he has handled numerous complex jury trials in both state and federal courts. Mr. Carter earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1973. He then pursued his Juris Doctor at the University of Memphis School of Law, graduating in 1980.
During law school, he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review and was a member of the Moot Court Board. Before entering private practice, Mr. Carter served in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps as a prosecutor, senior prosecutor, and senior defense counsel. He left the service in 1984 to join Martin, Tate, Morrow & Marston, P.C. Since then, he has been involved in various leadership roles within the firm, including serving as Chairman of the Litigation Department for over 25 years. Mr.
Carter is certified in Civil Trial Law by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, a distinction he has held since 1999. He has been recognized in "Best Lawyers in America" for several years and has been selected as one of the Best Lawyers in Tennessee in the areas of Intellectual Property and Litigation. He holds an AV rating with Martindale-Hubbell. He has served on the Tennessee Bar Association’s Committee to explore the creation of uniform Local Rules for the three federal judicial districts of Tennessee. He was Chairman of the Local Civil Rules Committee of the United States District Court for the Western District Local Rules Committee between 2009 and 2010 when the Local Rules for the Western District were rewritten. In 2012, the Federal Court appointed him Chairman of the newly formed Standing Local Rules Committee, where he served as Chairman and Member until 2016. He also was a member of the Western District’s Local Patent Rules Committee.
Mr. Carter has lectured extensively on trial practice issues, including patent litigation, e-discovery, Federal Local Rules and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, accounting defense, uses of demonstrative evidence at trial, Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act, wrongful death. Federal practice. He has been a fellow in the Tennessee Bar Foundation and the Litigation Counsel of America. He is survived by his wife, Amy Sullivan Carter; his son, Davis; his father, Harvey Wallace Carter, Jr.; his brother, Russell Collins Carter (Marilyn); his brothers-in-law, Jeff Sullivan (Maura) and Sam Wilkerson; and his sibling's children, Jack Sullivan, Casey Sullivan, Lainey Carter. Lily Carter.
