Charles Clinton Hunter

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). This article was subsequently published in PIABA Bar Journal’s Fall 2007 issue.
• Framing the Issues--Liability for Losses on Transferred in Securities Grounded on Non-Disclosure and on Violation of High Standards of Commercial Honor. This article was subsequently published in PIABA Bar Journal’s Fall 2007 issue.

Admissions:

• State Bar of California
• State Bar of Texas
• United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• United States District Court for the Central District of California
• United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin