Charles H. Thronson
Charles Thronson is the senior active shareholder at Parsons Behle & Latimer and head of the Personal Injury/Medical Malpractice Division. He has over 40 years of experience and practices throughout the United States in the areas of medical malpractice (especially birth injury cases), whistleblower (Qui Tam), personal injury, sexual assualt and products liability cases. Mr. Thronson has been involved in a number of cases for personal injury and medical malpractice clients that have generated some of the largest verdicts and settlements in the region.
Major verdicts include the largest personal injury/medical malpractice verdict in the state's history (2015 - $11,268,178) in a medical malpractice brain injury case.
He has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney School of Law at the University of Utah, an Adjunct Professor at Westminster College, a long-time member of the Utah Association for Justice (president, 2009-2010) and a frequent lecturer. He is listed in the Top 100 Lawyers in Utah, Mountain States Super Lawyers and he has been recognized since 1995 in The Best Lawyers in America (2012, 2016 Plaintiffs' Lawyer of the Year -- Medical Malpractice (Salt Lake City); 2019 Lawyer of the Year -- Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs (Salt Lake City)). He was named 2020 Best Lawyers in America "Best of the Best" and 2021 National Alliance of Attorneys - Attorney of the Year - Personal Injury.
Practice Areas
Accomplishments
Harvard University - Post Graduate (Fundamentals of Neuroscience, 2021)
Creighton University (J.D., magna cum laude, 1977)
(ranked 3rd in class of 172)
Editorial Staff, Creighton University Law Review
University of Washington (B.A., 1972)
Major: Business Administration
Athletics: Freshman and Varsity Crew
Adjunct Professor, Advanced Torts Practice, University of Utah, College of Law, 1999 - 2003
Adjunct Professor, Westminster College, 1986 - 1988
Listed in Best Lawyers in America (1995 - present) in Medical Malpractice, Litigation, and Personal Injury Litigation
Selected as a 2020 Top Rated Lawyer in Medical Malpractice Law by Corporate Counsel & The American Lawyer Magazines
Selected to Association of American Trial Lawyers' (AOATL) Top 100 attorneys in Utah.
Selected in 2015 as a member of the Nation's Top One Percent by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel
Named ACQ Law Awards Utah Leading Lawyer of the Year, 2013 - 2020, U.S. Leading Lawyer of the Year, 2019 and 2020, Personal Injury
CV Magazine’s 2019 Corporate Excellence Awards, Most Influential Personal Injury Lawyer of 2019 - Utah
Named Best Lawyers' 2012, 2016 Plaintiffs' Lawyer of the Year for Salt Lake City in Medical Malpractice Law
Named Best Lawyers' 2019 Plaintiffs' Lawyer of the Year for Salt Lake City in Personal Injury
Named Best Lawyers' 2020 "Best of the Best"
National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys Top 10 Attorney Award (Utah 2015)
Named 2021 National Alliance of Attorneys - Attorney of the Year - Personal Injury
Listed as one of the Top Lawyers Named by Their Peers, 2012
Listed in Mountain States Super Lawyers
Listed in Top 100 Lawyers in Utah
Listed in Utah's Legal Elite
Martindale-Hubbell AV® Preeminent™ Rating
Listed in "10 Best Attorneys," 2019 and 2021 for Utah, American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys
Selected as a 2020 Top Rated Litigation Lawyer by ALM Media and Martindale-Hubbell
Selected to Lawyers of Distinction, 2021
Associations
Utah Association for Justice
Board of Governors
(2004 - present)
President
(2009 - 2010)
Alpha Sigma Nu National Academic Honor Society
National Association of Distinguished Counsel
Litigation Counsel of America
Founding Fellow
Utah State Bar
Bar Examiner
(1986 - 2009)
Utah State Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing,
Prelitigation Task Force
(1995 - 1997)
American Association for Justice
Member
Salt Lake County Bar Association
Member
American Bar Association
Member
Judge Memorial High School
Board of Directors
(2007 - 2014)
Utah State Bar: Litigation Section
Member
388th Fighter Squadron F-16 Viper, Hill Air Force Base, Utah
Honorary Vice-Wing Commander
Licensed/Admitted
U.S. Dist. Court, Dist. of Utah
Utah
