Charles T. Carson

Partner

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  • Biography

    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.

    Prior to joining GRSM, 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). 

    Admissions

    • Arizona
    • California
    • Nevada

     

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    • 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.
  • Education

    Education 

    J.D., University of Illinois Chicago John Marshall Law School

    B.A., University of Illinois Urbana

    Honors 

    AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®
     

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