Wade Carpenter joined MehaffyWeber in 1997 and became a shareholder with the firm in 2003. Wade manages a statewide toxic tort docket for one of the firm's major clients and has worked closely with other MehaffyWeber lawyers on defending clients in toxic tort and products liability cases. Wade has also defended insurance companies in a variety of First Party Claims, handled construction law claims, and has worked on a variety of commercial disputes for both large companies and locally owned businesses.

Areas of Concentration
Products Liability, First-Party Insurance/Bad Faith, Toxic Tort, Commercial Litigation and Insurance Defense

Licenses
State Bar of Texas, 1997
United States District Courts for the Eastern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas

Education
Wade is a graduate of Texas A & M University (B.B.A. Finance, 1994) where he participated in and graduated from the College of Business Honors Program.  In 1997, Wade graduated magna cum laude from Texas Tech University School of Law.  At Texas Tech, he was a member of the Order of the Coif, Phi Kappa Phi, and of the Board of Barristers.

Activities
Wade has been involved in various civic and charitable activities including coaching youth basketball and baseball, Boy Scouts, Leadership Beaumont (Class of 2000) and the Jefferson County Young Lawyers as both an officer and a director.  He is on the Board of Directors for Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas Foundation, Michelle F. Mehaffy Inn of Court, Jefferson County Bar Association Young Lawyers and the Beaumont Little Dribblers Basketball.  He graduated from the IADC Trial Academy in 2001.

Memberships and Honors 
Wade is currently a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Jefferson County Bar Association, the Jefferson County Young Lawyers Association, the Defense Research Institute, and Michelle F. Mehaffy Inn of Court .

He has been recognized as a "Texas Rising Star" in Texas Monthly magazine since 2006.

Articles
"Limiting Sophisticated User Defense,"
Houston Lawyer, September/October 2001