Christopher W. Martin is a founding partner of Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom LLP in Texas. He has successfully tried insurance coverage and bad faith cases to verdict in 14 different states and handled such cases in 38 different states. For the past 16 years, Chambers USA ranked him as one of the top insurance litigation attorneys in Texas. Best Lawyers recently named him “Insurance Lawyer of the Year” for Texas for 2024. He is the author of 4 legal treatises and more than 100 articles on insurance law, and he taught insurance law at the University of Houston Law School for 10 years. For the last 5 years, he has been teaching insurance law in the LL.M program at Baylor University Law School. He has tried more insurance coverage and bad faith lawsuits than any lawyer in the US over the last 25 years. He writes and speaks nationally on successful trial strategies and techniques to win insurance coverage and bad faith cases.