Charles G. Wentworth
charles@wentworthlawoffices.com
Phone: (630) 469-9600
Fax: (630) 469-9601
Practice Areas:
Civil Litigation
Appellate Litigation
Business Advice and Planning
Admissions & Qualifications:
Illinois
Northern District of Illinois
Ninth Circuit
Seventh Circuit
Prior Experience:
Kirkland & Ellis LLP,
Chicago, IL
Business Experience:
Director, McMillan Land Company
Clerkship:
Honorable John T. Broderick, Jr.
Chief Justice, New Hampshire
Supreme Court
Education:
S.J. Quinney College of Law,
University of Utah, J.D.
Order of the Coif
Law Review Staff Editor
Constitutional and Civil Rights
Moot Court Team
University of Utah, Honors B.A.
President, History Honors Society
Assistant Editor, Student Journal
Language:
Spanish (fluent)
Charles handles a wide range of legal counseling and advising needs. And his experience as a director of a small company gives him practical knowledge in the day-to-day issues that face his business clients. Charles has dealt with a variety of legal matters, including:
- Writing a summary judgment brief for a global consulting company resulting in the protection of the client’s copyrights in an information database that was the subject of a Wisconsin open-records action.
- Using his language skills to review and analyze documents in Spanish and English as part of multi-layered litigation against a multi-billion-dollar, closely-held client with numerous offices in Latin America.
- Representing a private equity client in coordinating a series of cases nationwide against the client and former portfolio companies recently sold by the client. He also successfully developed a productive working relationship with the buyer’s counsel to ensure that the client remained indemnified under the stock purchase agreement.
- Interviewing dozens of a client’s employees as part of fact gathering during the litigation of a wrongful termination and whistle-blowing case involving two former employees who had been fired for embezzlement.
- Answering third-party subpoenas and preparing witnesses for depositions in litigation in which the client was not a party.
- Working with in-house counsel and country managers to coordinate the worldwide collection of documents from the client’s offices in Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, and Central and South America.
Charles has also represented clients and community organizations in a variety of pro bono matters, including:
- Negotiating the settlement of a case against a church as a result of a failed attempt to open a pre-school and day care center in the church’s basement.
- Filing an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of an immigration organization in a case that would affect the organization’s immigrant clients.
- Appealing to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals the dismissal of a mother’s claims against her son’s school in a case where she felt that he was not receiving the special education services to which he was entitled. Charles then successfully negotiated a settlement with the school prior to oral argument.
- Deposing the warden of federal prison as part litigation in the Southern District of New York over a prisoner’s religious-free-exercise claims.
- All but two of Charles' pro bono appeals settled after opposing counsel received the briefing. And he successfully obtained an affirmance and partial reversal of summary judgment in the remaining two appeals.