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Affiliations | Bar Admissions | Education | Honors | Litigation Percentage | Position | Representative Cases Charles Barnhill is a founding partner of Miner, Barnhill & Galland. He graduated from Michigan Law School in 1968, cum laude, order of the coif, and he was a member of the Law Review. He has spent his time since then litigating virtually every kind of civil case from simple arbitrations to complex class actions. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and has been listed in the Best Lawyers in America every year since its inception. He is included in Who's Who of American Law, and Who's Who of America. Early in his career he was heavily involved in class actions, primarily employment and consumer cases. More recently he has litigated complicated antitrust, consumer and securities cases including serving as co- lead counsel in Wisconsin for the consumer class in the vitamin anti-trust case, acting as one of the principal attorneys in connection with the largest securities claim against Drexel Burnham (recovering in excess of $100 million) and representing a consortium of health insurers against major drug manufacturers for unlawfully interfering with generic competition. Currently, he has been selected to be outside counsel to the states of Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin in a lawsuit against most of the major drug manufacturers in connection with their drug sales to each state's Medicaid programs. Current Employment Position(s):PartnerEducation:The University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1968J.D. Honors: Cum Laude Honors: Order of the Coif Honors: Barrister Society Law Review: Assistant Editor, University of Michigan Law Review, 1966 - 1968 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1965 B.S. Major: Economics Litigation Practices :75% of Practice Devoted to LitigationHonors and Awards:Selected by Best Lawyers in America every year since its inceptionWho's Who in America Who's Who in American Law Professional Associations and Memberships:American College of Trial LawyersFellow Legal Aid Society of Chicago, 1972 - 1974 Board of Directors American Bar Association Co-Chairman, Litigation Section American Bar Association Faculty Member, Litigation Section Chicago Council of Lawyers, 1971 - 1973 Board of Governors Bar Admissions:U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin, 1988U.S. District Court Western District of Wisconsin, 1987 Wisconsin, 1987 U.S. Supreme Court, 1973 U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit, 1972 U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 1969 Illinois, 1968 Past Employment Positions:Miner, Barnhill, and Galland, P.C., Partner, 1969 - 1971Katz & Friedman, Attorney, 1968 - 1969 Legal Aid Bureau, Appellate Division, Reginald Heber Smith Fellow Kirkland & Ellis, Clerk Sidley & Austin, Clerk Representative Cases:Goliday v. Robinson, 305 F.Supp. 1224 (1969)Arnett v. Kennedy, 416 U.S. 134 (1974) Waters v. Furnco, 438 U.S. 567 (1978) Christie v. Marston, 551 F.2d 1080 (1977) Waters v. Wisconsin Steel Works of International Harvester Co., 502 F.2d 1309 (1974) Orphan v. Furnco, 466 F.2d 795 (1972) Miller v. Woodmoor, 619 F.2d 65 (1980) Smith v. General Motors Corp. Ridgeway v. I.B.E.W. Local 159, 466 F.Supp. 595 (1979) Eggleston v. Plumber, 657 F.2d 890 (7th Cir. 1981) Hany v. General Electric, (later King v. General Electric), 960 F.2d 617 (7th Cir. 1992) Resnick v. ADA, 90 FRD 530 (N.D. Ill. 1981) Meiressone v. Marriott, 124 FRD 619 (N.D. Ill. 1989) Allen v. Marshall Field, LEXIS 14169 (N.D. Ill. 1982) Anderson v. Montgomery Ward & Co., 627 F. Supp. 1562 (N.D.Ill. 1986) Mays v. Motorola, LEXIS 8996 (N.D. Ill. 1979) Liberles v. Daniel, LEXIS 13653 (1981) Liberles v. Daniel, 709 F.2d 1122 (1983) McBride v. Burlington Northern, Inc., LEXIS 7051 (N.D. Ill. 1978) Phemister v. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, LEXIS 23595 (N.D. Ill. 1984) Robert Bauman, et al. v Jacobs Suchard, Inc. Gusman v. Unisys, 986 F.2d 1146 (1993) Pelletech Inc., v. Norwest Bank Wisconsin East Central, Wisconsin Court of Appeals, 187 Wis.2d 291 (Ct. App. 1994) Ivan F. Boesky Securities Litigation P.S. Group, Inc., Securities Litigation (U.S.D.C.) Burney v. Rent-A-Center (Racine County Circuit Court) (N.D.III) Rambeau v.Dow, 430 F. Supp. 301 (U.S.D.C. for the N.D. Ill. 1976) |
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