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Charles Hunter
Born: San Antonio, Texas
E-Mail: chunter@reichandbinstock.com
Charlie Hunter was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, where he
attended a private preparatory high school on a competitive scholarship
and graduated 8th among 125 students. He subsequently attended college
at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a bachelor of
business administration degree in Finance with honors in 1977.
Mr. Hunter continued his studies at UT Austin to earn a law degree in
1980. As a law student, Mr. Hunter served as Note Editor of the Review
of Litigation, as member of the Law School Standards Committee, and as
law school delegate to the Constitutional Convention of the Students
Association. Mr. Hunter worked as a law student clerk in the law firm of
Waggoner Carr, who was a former Texas Attorney General and member of the
Warren Commission.
Mr. Hunter was sworn in as a member of the California State Bar in
December 1980. He worked first with prominent civil rights lawyer Barry
Fisher defending religious, speech and associational rights in state and
federal courts in the context of public solicitation of donations,
distribution of literature, and land use. He also represented artists
and entertainers in copyright and contractual matters. Mr. Hunter next
worked for several business and insurance law firms prosecuting and
defending securities, trademark, copyright and insurance matters. He
drafted insurance coverage opinions and advised business organizations.
In private practice, he also represented criminal defendants in state
and federal courts gaining valuable courtroom experience.
Returning to Texas in 1994, Mr. Hunter worked as a management consultant
advising large churches and related non-profits nationwide on executive
compensation issues and on compliance with laws imposing excise taxes as
intermediate sanctions on excess benefit transactions. Mr. Hunter next
worked as a third-party manager of non-qualified executive benefits
plans created by his employer for publicly traded companies and other
large employers in Texas and the Southwest. He left that position to
serve as Vice President of a Houston-based real estate development firm.
Mr. Hunter joined Woska & Hayes LLP in March 2005 as a securities
arbitration attorney. He successfully represented numerous clients of
the firm across the country in settlements, mediations and arbitration
hearings. Currently, he is Of Counsel to this firm's successor, The
Hayes Law Firm, PC.
At Reich & Binstock, Mr. Hunter works with Debra Hayes on consumer class
actions, mass actions, and commercial litigation. Mr. Hunter is an
active member of the State Bar of California, of the Society of
Financial Service Professionals, and of the Public Investors Arbitration
Bar Association ("PIABA"). In October 2007, he presented the following
papers at the 16th Annual Meeting of PIABA:
* A Measure of Quality and Quantity--Market Adjusted Damages as
Proof of the Broker's Failure to Diversify--A Causal Connection Between
Malfeasance and Damages (co-authored with Lawrence Melton)
* Framing the Issues--Liability for Losses on Transferred in
Securities Grounded on Non-Disclosure and on Violation of High Standards
of Commercial Honor
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