Carl E. Volz

Expertise Carl Advises Experience Highlights Career History

Partner

Business Litigation

Expertise

Carl is an experienced, creative litigator skilled in defending claims brought against public and private companies and their officers, directors and employees. Throughout his nearly 30 years in practice, he has gained an intimate awareness of the challenges of building and growing businesses, from start-ups at the cutting edge of technology to mature, well-established companies in highly-regulated industries. He uses this knowledge to craft cost-effective, successful strategies to defend his clients and advise them on how to build internal systems to avoid conflicts in the first place.

Carl Advises

  • Founders, start-ups and their directors, officers and employees seeking to organize their companies and build litigation-resistant systems;
  • Founders, new or young companies in emerging legal spaces trying to navigate complex, evolving regulatory environments
  • Companies of all sizes and their directors, officers and employees named as defendants in civil litigation or identified as targets in government investigations and civil or criminal prosecutions.

Experience Highlights

  • Carl has helped resolve dozens of high-stakes lawsuits, inside and outside of the courtroom, on behalf of companies ranging from the smallest start-up to international, multi-billion dollar companies and their directors, officers and employees.

Career History

Previous Law firms

  • Pontem Law PLLC, founder, 2018-2025
  • K&L Gates, LLP, Partner, 2017-2019
  • Dechert LLP, Partner, 2012-2017
  • Katten Muchin Rosenman, LLP Associate and Partner, 2000-2012

Memberships

  • American Bar Association
  • Illinois State Bar Association
  • Blockchain Lawyers Group

Education

  • IIT-Chicago Kent College of Law – JD, Law, 1995
  • Ohio University, BSJ and BA, Journalism and Political Theory, 1992

Expertise

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Carl is an experienced, creative litigator skilled in defending claims brought against public and private companies and their officers, directors and employees. Throughout his nearly 30 years in practice, he has gained an intimate awareness of the challenges of building and growing businesses, from start-ups at the cutting edge of technology to mature, well-established companies in highly-regulated industries. He uses this knowledge to craft cost-effective, successful strategies to defend his clients and advise them on how to build internal systems to avoid conflicts in the first place.

Carl Advises

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  • Founders, start-ups and their directors, officers and employees seeking to organize their companies and build litigation-resistant systems;
  • Founders, new or young companies in emerging legal spaces trying to navigate complex, evolving regulatory environments
  • Companies of all sizes and their directors, officers and employees named as defendants in civil litigation or identified as targets in government investigations and civil or criminal prosecutions.

Experience Highlights

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  • Carl has helped resolve dozens of high-stakes lawsuits, inside and outside of the courtroom, on behalf of companies ranging from the smallest start-up to international, multi-billion dollar companies and their directors, officers and employees.

Career History

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Previous Law firms

  • Pontem Law PLLC, founder, 2018-2025
  • K&L Gates, LLP, Partner, 2017-2019
  • Dechert LLP, Partner, 2012-2017
  • Katten Muchin Rosenman, LLP Associate and Partner, 2000-2012

Memberships

  • American Bar Association
  • Illinois State Bar Association
  • Blockchain Lawyers Group

Education

  • IIT-Chicago Kent College of Law – JD, Law, 1995
  • Ohio University, BSJ and BA, Journalism and Political Theory, 1992