Charles J. Cain

Charlie Cain has tried numerous cases to juries and the bench, as well as participated in approximately twenty arbitrations involving construction, oil and gas, employment, and insurance matters.

In late 2014, Cain & Skarnulis PLLC won the largest verdict in Kendall County, Texas, a county in which no plaintiff had won in 13 years.  The $8.4 million insurance bad faith verdict will certainly be one of the more significant insurance cases in Texas in the last few years.

Mr. Cain is a trial lawyer at heart and thrives in the adversarial environment and, particularly, in front of a jury. When looking at a new case, Mr. Cain views the case from end to beginning. In other words, he breaks complex matters down into their basic legal elements and prepares the case with reference to the expected claims and defenses to be submitted to the jury or to the court by motion for summary judgment. From there, he is able to develop an effective pre-trial strategy that is narrowly tailored to address the relevant issues. This saves his clients time and money by avoiding superfluous discovery. While he never prepares a case to settle it, Mr. Cain believes that the most favorable settlements occur when trial counsel has gained an advantage over his adversary through better preparation and an aggressive focus on winning the case at trial.