Carson Dudick

Carson A. Dudick is an experienced trial attorney with a reputation for helping injured victims and families secure high-value results in civil injury claims.

Carson has been a committed member of the Carpenter & Zuckerman legal team since she began working for our firm as a summer associate in May 2022. While she was a certified law clerk and second chair in her first trial in 2023, Carson secured a seven-figure verdict for her client and was notified by the California Bar Association just two days later that she had passed the Bar Exam on her first attempt. Upon joining our team as a full-time attorney, Carson became the first summer associate in our firm’s history to be hired for a post-bar position.

Now an accomplished Trial Lawyer, Carson has cultivated a reputation as a tenacious advocate. She is committed, caring, and capable of leveraging tremendous insight when helping clients navigate the civil justice system, and has built her practice on providing the dedicated effort victims deserve and demand when they are pursuing high-value results.

Carson is a graduate of Southern Methodist University, where she earned a dual honors B.A. in History and Human Rights with double minors in Women’s and Gender Studies and Law and Legal Reasoning. While at SMU, she was part of the Voices of SMU Oral History project, through which she helped document stories of alumni from underrepresented groups. She also spearheaded efforts to apply for a Texas State Historical Marker commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic 1966 speech on SMU's campus and, after four years and untold hours of work, was able to secure the installation of the Marker and serve as a keynote speaker in SMU's McFarlin Auditorium where Dr King gave his speech 57 years earlier.

Following her time at SMU, Carson went on to attend the University of San Diego School of Law, where she graduated cum laude and served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Law Journal, Academic Success Fellow, and Vice President of the Health Law Society. She credits her time working for a plaintiffs’ personal injury firm during her first year of law school as the impetus for her career in plaintiff advocacy.

When not fighting for clients, Carson enjoys game nights with her family and friends and spending time with her dog.

Admissions

• California