Casey

Minnes Carter

Shareholder
700 Milam Street, Suite 800
Houston, TX 77002

Overview

Clients trust Casey to handle high-stakes disputes across a range of industries, including complex commercial, environmental, shareholder disputes, business divorce, employment, real estate, and personal injury matters. She has secured multimillion-dollar judgments, prevailed on dispositive motions, and negotiated favorable resolutions for Fortune 500 companies, privately held businesses, and individuals.

Casey guides clients through every phase of litigation – from pre-suit strategy and discovery to evidentiary hearings, trials, and appeals – in state and federal courts. She appears before administrative bodies and defends clients in civil enforcement actions brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), and other agencies. Outside the courtroom, she advises businesses on managing legal and environmental risk, counseling on regulatory compliance, environmental considerations in real estate transactions and corporate deals, insurance coverage, and internal audits. Across matters, she emphasizes practical, business-oriented outcomes.

She brings particular depth to environmental litigation and enforcement actions, where regulatory risk, technical evidence, and business exposure converge. She represents potentially responsible parties, landowners, and companies in environmental lawsuits and agency proceedings arising under statutes such as Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), and the Clean Air Act (CAA), as well as analogous state laws. Her work in this space often intersects with disputes over land use and property rights. She represents individual and corporate landowners and real estate investment trusts in condemnation proceedings, advising on just compensation and developing strategies to protect the current and future use, value, and operation of property. At the same time, she navigates the commercial and operational disputes that frequently accompany these matters, giving clients a single advocate across overlapping risks.

Before joining Munsch Hardt, Casey practiced at a national litigation firm in Houston. Outside her practice, she enjoys traveling with her husband and daughter – and, when time allows, keeping up with the latest Bravo series alongside her rescue dog, Moose.

Education

Admissions

Achievements

  • Houston Young Lawyers Foundation – Fellow (2019)
  • Houston Bar Foundation – Fellow (2024)
  • Thomson Reuters – Texas Rising Stars (2024-2025)
  • Woodward/White, Inc. – Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Commercial Litigation (2022-2025); Best Lawyers in America, Women in the Law (2024)
  • Memberships

    • Houston Bar Association (Lawyers for Literacy and Gender Fairness Committee)
    • Houston Young Lawyers Association (Adopt-an-Angel Committee)
    • Houston Association of Women Attorneys
    • Texas Association of Defense Counsel
  • Clerkships

    • The Honorable Karon O. Bowdre, Chief Judge for the Northern District of Alabama (Judicial Extern)

Overview

Clients trust Casey to handle high-stakes disputes across a range of industries, including complex commercial, environmental, shareholder disputes, business divorce, employment, real estate, and personal injury matters. She has secured multimillion-dollar judgments, prevailed on dispositive motions, and negotiated favorable resolutions for Fortune 500 companies, privately held businesses, and individuals.

Casey guides clients through every phase of litigation – from pre-suit strategy and discovery to evidentiary hearings, trials, and appeals – in state and federal courts. She appears before administrative bodies and defends clients in civil enforcement actions brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), and other agencies. Outside the courtroom, she advises businesses on managing legal and environmental risk, counseling on regulatory compliance, environmental considerations in real estate transactions and corporate deals, insurance coverage, and internal audits. Across matters, she emphasizes practical, business-oriented outcomes.

She brings particular depth to environmental litigation and enforcement actions, where regulatory risk, technical evidence, and business exposure converge. She represents potentially responsible parties, landowners, and companies in environmental lawsuits and agency proceedings arising under statutes such as Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), and the Clean Air Act (CAA), as well as analogous state laws. Her work in this space often intersects with disputes over land use and property rights. She represents individual and corporate landowners and real estate investment trusts in condemnation proceedings, advising on just compensation and developing strategies to protect the current and future use, value, and operation of property. At the same time, she navigates the commercial and operational disputes that frequently accompany these matters, giving clients a single advocate across overlapping risks.

Before joining Munsch Hardt, Casey practiced at a national litigation firm in Houston. Outside her practice, she enjoys traveling with her husband and daughter – and, when time allows, keeping up with the latest Bravo series alongside her rescue dog, Moose.

Experience

  • Oil & Gas Litigation

    Secured a $13 MM judgment for actual damages, attorneys’ fees and other costs for landowners against a major West Texas operator as well as a judicial declaration confirming the landowners’ contractual right of first refusal for the operator’s

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  • Oil & Gas Litigation

    Obtained a favorable settlement for an oil and gas company in a multi-million dollar dispute over a downhole drilling failure in offshore Louisiana, asserting claims for breach of warranty, breach of contract, fraud and negligence against a manufacturer

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  • Commercial Litigation + Contracts

    Defeated a franchisor’s multi-million dollar breach of contract and defamation claims brought against a former franchisee and won an approximately $2 MM summary judgment on franchisee’s counterclaim for breach of contract 

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