Xavier O. Carter

Growing up, Xavier dreamed of following in his father’s footsteps to become an attorney working for everyday people who are facing some of life’s most challenging circumstances. Xavier is now living out his dream as an advocate on behalf of plaintiffs. In 2018, he joined the law firm then known as Watkins, Lourie, Roll & Chance, P.C. At the beginning of 2023, Xavier became a partner in the newly formed Chance, Forlines, Carter & King P.C. Since becoming an advocate for the victims of negligence, Xavier has fought tirelessly on behalf of individuals who have been seriously injured and on behalf of families who have lost loved ones as a result of the negligence of others. His practice focuses primarily on medical negligence committed by health care institutions and providers as well as nursing home and assisted living facility abuse and neglect of the elderly and disabled. In 2022, Xavier was a co-lead member of two trial teams that secured record-setting trial verdicts on behalf of victims of neglect by long term care facilities. Xavier and his partners secured a $15.3 million dollar verdict in McKinney v. Life Care Centers of America, et al, by demonstrating to the jury how systemic understaffing caused chronic neglect that ultimately led to the death of their 77-year-old client. The firm followed that verdict up with a $2.8 million verdict in Perloe v. Somerby Senior Living, LLC. In that case Xavier and CFCK Law trial team held accountable an assisted living facility that allowed a fire ant infestation to develop until their client was attacked by fire ants on multiple occasions, ultimately leading to her death less than a week later. Most recently, in June 2023, Xavier was co-lead counsel on a Lourie Chance trial team that obtained a $40 million dollar verdict against a physicians’ group and a hospital in a complicated medical malpractice case in Bibb County, Georgia. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Xavier O. Carter included in a Super Lawyers® list Other Sources of Feedback About Xavier O. Carter Included on the 2026Georgia Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2025 Georgia Super Lawyers list 2024 Georgia Super Lawyers list 2023 Georgia Super Lawyers list

• Partner

• Orange County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, UVA Prosecution Clinic Intern
• Watkins, Lourie, Roll & Chance, P.C.
• King & Spalding, LLP
• United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama, Federal Prosecutor

• McKinney v. Life Care Centers of America, et al - Secured a $15.3 million dollar verdict
• Perloe v. Somerby Senior Living, LLC - Secured a $2.8 million verdict

• Atlanta Thrive, Board Member

• Georgia, 2009
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia, 2009
• Supreme Court of Georgia, 2009
• Georgia Court of Appeals, 2009
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Alabama, 2014

• Gate City Bar Association, Member
• Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Member
• Georgia Trial Lawyers Association - Executive Committee, Co-Chair of the Minority Caucus
• Georgia Trial Lawyers Association - PAC Board
• Georgia Trial Lawyers Association - LEAD Program Class of 2020