ABOUT CHARLES

Charles Taylor is an AV rated lawyer by Martindale Hubbell and has been designated as a Northern California Super Lawyer in Employment Law every year since 2005. In addition, Charles received the 2013 California State Bar President’s Pro Bono Services Award from the State Bar and California Supreme Court for direct provision of legal services to individual low-income clients and non-profit groups in the preceding year.
 
Charles is a labor and employment lawyer in the Central Valley who has historically represented both employees and employers. Clients have relied on Charles to aggressively prosecute and defend their discrimination and wage and hour claims and, where necessary, try their cases to verdict. He brings an outstanding record of decisions in various state and federal courts, before administrative bodies, and in arbitration. Charles has represented professionals, employees in public and private sector employment, both union and non-union, low-wage workers, and undocumented workers. Charles has also represented employers including public sector universities and school districts, sole​ proprietorships and Fortune 500 companies. For the last five years, Charles has focused his practice almost exclusively on representing employees who are victims of discrimination, including sexual harassment.

See representative cases here.


AWARDS & RECOGNITION

President’s Pro Bono Service Award, 2013. Presented by State Bar President, Patrick M. Kelly & Chief Justice, California Supreme Court, Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye

Selected as Northern California Super Lawyer for 2005 through the present, representing the top 5% of lawyers in Northern California.

Martindale-Hubbell Rating: AV

Recognition by State Bar and California Appellate Project with deep appreciation for accepting appointment to represent defendant in a death penalty case on October 2, 1992. Petition for Habeas Corpus granted August 4, 2009. Client was taken off of Death Row after 17 years representation in federal and state courts.

Admitted to practice in December 11, 1986.


publications    

The Changing Family and the Child’s Best Interests: Current Standards Discriminate Against Single Working Mothers in California Custody Modification Cases, 26, SANTA CLARA L. REV. 759 (1986).

EDUCATION         

University of Santa Clara School of Law, Juris Doctor, 1986

Honors: Associate Editor, Law Review

Activities: Moot Court, Legal Clinic, Criminal & Civil

California State University, Fresno, Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology, 1983

Honors: Magna Cum Laude