About

David C. Carr, an attorney in private practice, located in Las Cruces, New Mexico,specializes in ethics advice for lawyers, discipline defense, and attorney licensing. Mr. Carr is a 1986 graduate of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. Following several years of practice in commercial law and business litigation, Mr. Carr joined the State Bar of California as a staff attorney in 1989, where he served as a staff attorney, a discipline prosecutor and a manager in discipline enforcement office before returning to private practice in 2001.  He is a member of the San Diego County Bar Association, where he is active on the Legal Ethics Committee. Mr. Carr is also a member of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL), the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility, and the Association of Discipline Defense Counsel (ADDC), where he served as president from 2008 through 2011. He was a member of  the State Bar's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) for the 2018-2021 term.  Mr. Carr taught professional responsibility as an adjunct faculty member at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, from 2017 to 2021.  He is licensed to practice law in California, Texas and New Mexico.