For more than 25 years, Carl Hartmann has been trial and appellate counsel in complex federal civil cases throughout the nation -- involving corporate law, employment, intellectual property, HR, EEO, telecommunications, real estate workouts, and environmental actions. He has been counsel both for major corporations and individuals; as well as special outside investigative counsel for the federal government. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit described Mr. Hartmann's victory against the City of Albuquerque, following a difficult and extensive federal trial, as "a classic jury case."

As lead trial counsel for legal publisher HyperLaw, Inc. in the Southern District of New York case Matthew Bender and HyperLaw, Inc. v. West Publishing -- he won one of the largest federal copyright actions regarding database protection and copyright in electronic publishing. The New York Times reported this as a case "experts [say] will drive down the price of legal research . . . [stripping] away much of the copyright protection claimed by West Publishing, the nation's dominant publisher of court cases, for its law books." He also successfully argued the appeal against Prof. Arthur R. Miller -- in the Second Circuit appellate affirmance.

Recently, in a 2011 federal jury trial, along with attorneys Joel Holt and Kimberly Japinga, he obtained a $20 million verdict against an Alcoa subsidiary represented by national law firms Hunton & Williams and Ogletree Deakins, in a vigorously contested fraud and breach of contract action -- including a recovery of more than $6 million in punitive damages.

In addition, he has consulted with, and developed programs in litigation, corporate compliance, EEO law and complex, massive document litigation support for corporate and governmental clients including Sandia National Laboratories, the U.S. Justice Department, the U.S. Navy, the Western Area Power Authority, the National Forest Service, and the U.S. Department of the Interior. From 1988 to 1990, he was also the supervising counsel for Merrill Lynch Private Capital’s U.S. Virgin Islands asset recovery operations.