Charles T. Carson

Charles “Chuck” Carson obtained his undergraduate degree in Business Finance-Investment at

the University of Illinois Urbana. Chuck also played varsity football for the University of

Illinois. Following undergrad, Chuck enrolled at the University of Illinois Chicago John

Marshall Law School where he represented his law school in the International Jessup Cup Moot

Court Competition in International Law, the National Client Counseling Competition, and

participated in an Advanced Trial Advocacy Program.

After law school, Chuck served as Judicial Clerk for the Honorable Walter E. Craig on the

United States District Court District of Arizona, United States Temporary Emergency Court of

Appeals, and occasionally on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit where he

worked on complex cases of regional and national importance.

Before joining Childers, Hanlon & Hudson, Chuck worked at large and medium sized law firms,

and then operated his own law firm. Chuck has maintained Martindale Hubbell’s highest rating

AV Preeminent peer rating every year since early in his career and is licensed to practice in

Arizona, California, and Nevada.

Chuck has over forty civil jury trials as lead counsel along with many more bench trials, appeals,

arbitrations, and mediations. His litigation experience includes a broad variety of commercial

litigation and insurance matters (professional liability, commercial premises liability, product

liability, construction law, municipal liability, bodily injury, commercial outdoor recreation

activities liability, complex insurance matters before state insurance departments, real estate,

environmental torts, and more).

Reported Case: Berry v 352 E. Virginia, 228 Ariz. 9, 261 P.3d 784 (Ariz. Ct. App. 2011)

established Arizona law re determining the prevailing party and the meaning of “judgment

finally obtained” statutory language for purposes of awarding ARS Section 12-341.01 attorney

fees and awarding Rule 68 Offer of Judgment sanctions in the circumstance of competing claims,

counterclaims, and setoffs all tried together.