Charles Thronson is the senior active shareholder and senior litigator with 48 years of experience at Parsons Behle & Latimer. His practice centers around representing seriously injured or deceased individuals in birth injury, medical malpractice and defective products cases. He also routinely handles auto/semi truck collisions and whistleblower/corporate fraud cases.
Capabilities
Biography
Charles Thronson is the senior active shareholder at Parsons Behle & Latimer and head of the Personal Injury/Medical Malpractice Division. He has over 48 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 assault 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, 2024 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.
Accomplishments
Academic
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
Professional
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 2023 and 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 and 2024 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, 2021-2024
National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Lawyers in Utah, 2021-2024
Top Lawyers, 2022
Elite Lawyer, 2022, 2023
Named Gamechangers Global Awards Utah Leading Lawyer of the Year - Personal Injury, 2021
Top Rated Litigator by The American Lawyer and the National Law Journal, 2022, 2023
2022 Elite Attorney - National Trial Lawyers
2022 Top 25 Products Liability Trial Lawyer - National Trial Lawyers
Recognized in Top Lawyers of Mountain States, 2023
Associations
Professional
Utah Association for Justice, Board of Governors (2004 - present) President (2009 - 2010)
American Bar Foundation, Fellow
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
Community
388th Fighter Squadron F-16 Viper, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Honorary Vice-Wing Commander
Insights
News
Parsons Behle & Latimer Attorneys Recognized by Best Lawyers in America
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Parsons Behle & Latimer Celebrates 32 Attorneys Ranked as Top Practitioners in the Mountain States Region
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Parsons Behle & Latimer attorneys recognized by Best Lawyers in America
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Super Lawyers Ranks 32 Parsons Behle & Latimer Attorneys as Top Practitioners in the Mountain States Region
Articles
Child or Chattel? Minor's Claims for Medical Expenses
Condemarin v. University Hospital, a 24-Year Retrospective
Admissibility of Post-Injury Conduct - Subsequent Remedial Measures and Punitive Damages
The Real Bogeyman
Just Lucky, Utah Trial Journal
Discoverability and Admissibility of Immigration Status
In Praise of Regulation
The Wrongful Death Guarantee, Part II
Health Courts: Not So Fair and Equitable
Presentations
Anatomy of a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
Trial Fundamentals
Big Verdict - Small Town
The Big Verdict
Recent Trial Victories and Strategy
Medical Malpractice in Utah
National Institute of Trial Advocacy
Prelitigation Practice
Crafting the Closing Argument
Hospital Liens
Prelitigation Practice
Discovery, Deposition and Motion Practice in the Complex Plaintiff’s Case
Medical Malpractice
Medical Malpractice – The State of The Law
The Practice of Personal Injury Law: A Two-Case Study
Perinatal Legal Issues
Medical Malpractice in Utah
Obstetrical Malpractice
Credentials
Licensed
U.S. Court of Federal Claims
U.S. Dist. Court, Dist. of Utah
Utah
Education
Creighton University School of Law
