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Charles Hunter, Of Counsel  Charles Hunter is the son of a career military officer and a public health nurse. Born in 1955 in San Antonio, Texas, Mr. Hunter attended a private preparatory 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.
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. 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 Houston and Dallas. 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 has successfully represented numerous clients of the firm across the country in settlements, mediations and arbitration hearings. He 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.
Claims successfully arbitrated by Mr. Hunter include the following:
J.H. Webb v. Salomon Smith Barney, Inc., Arbitration Decision No. 2004-015351
http://www.nyse.com/arbitration/1138792343329.html
(Broker left client in a concentrated position while attempting to sell him a managed money account)
Benny Brock and Elizabeth Brock v. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co., Arbitration Decision No. 2004-015176
http://www.nyse.com/arbitration/1157497228274.html
(Award of full Net Out of Pocket damages plus attorney fees and costs for sale of mutual funds without disclosure of higher fees and for failure to recommend asset allocation appropriate for client, who was retired due to disability)
Paige Arcuri v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Arbitration Decision No. 04-029 17
http://scan.cch.com/aad/200505/04-02917.pdf
(Award of damages and attorney fees to widow whose broker invested her too aggressively)
Christopher and Angela G. LaCombe v. Edward D. Jones & Co. L.P. d/b/a Edward Jones, Arbitration Decision No. 04-08291
http://scan.cch.com/aad/200603/04-08291.pdf
(Damages and attorney fees awarded to disabled claimant on sale of mutual funds without disclosure of higher fees and with improper asset allocation for investor seeking low risk)
Richard Chambers v. Morgan Stanley, Arbitration Decision No. 2004-015153
http://www.nyse.com/arbitration/1141903343214.html
(Investor with disability awarded 100% of losses and brokerage firm required to pay 100% of arbitration costs where broker failed to update inaccurate records and customer was invested in a manner which exposed him to too much risk)
Priscilla and Edward Greenwald v. Salomon Smith Barney, Inc., Arbitration Decision No. 2004-015722
http://www.nyse.com/arbitration/1123238653165.html
(Retired couple invested aggressively and without regard to proper asset allocation. Awarded damages and costs of arbitration) |
