Carpenter & Stout, Ltd. was founded in 1968 by William H. Carpenter who has been a New Mexico trial lawyer for almost fourty years. Mr. Carpenter specializes in personal injury, products liability, and trial advocacy. David Stout, an honor graduate from Harvard, the University of London and the University of New Mexico Law School joined the firm in 1987. The firm's lawyers handle a broad range of civil litigation including products liability, automobile accidents, general negligence, personal injuries, unfair insurance practices and bad faith.