Charles Naylor

Charles D. Naylor has been a maritime personal injury trial lawyer in the State and federal courts of Southern California for more than 30 years. During his career, Mr. Naylor has successfully settled or tried hundreds of cases arising from injuries occurring in the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and around the world.

Mr. Naylor enjoys a national reputation among his peers for his strict adherence to the highest standards of ethics, quality of work, and successful prosecution of injury cases.

Among his recent jury trial verdicts, in a 2007 wrongful death case Mr. Naylor obtained a verdict of more than $55 million for the family of a deceased longshoreman and a settlement agreement of $3.2 million for an injured longshore woman.

Mr. Naylor has been a lecturer for the State of California, Continuing Education of the Bar program and serves as a Neutral Evaluator for the Los Angeles County Superior Courts for maritime injury cases. He is a commissioner of the State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization Admiralty & Maritime Consulting Group, where he has played a vital role in the development of criteria for certification in California as a specialist in Admiralty and Maritime Law.

Mr. Naylor is also an adjunct Professor of Law, teaching Admiralty and Maritime Law at Chapman University School of Law. He is a member and Past-President of the Maritime Section of the Long Beach Bar Association, the Maritime Law Association of the United States, the American Association For Justice (formerly American Trial Lawyers Association) Admiralty section, the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, WILG and is a "Bencher" member of the Joseph A. Ball/Clarence S. Hunt Inn of Court.

Websites:

• Company Website
• Blog

Groups and Associations:

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  Admiralty and Maritime Law Network
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  Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles
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  Lloyd's List
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  Los Angeles Area Law Alumni
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  Santa Clara Law Alumni
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  Santa Clara Law Alumni in the Orange County Region
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  iManage WorkSite

Honors and Awards:

Consumer Attorney of the Year Award finalist, 2007 (Consumer Attorneys of California)

CLAY Award recipient, 2008 (California Lawyer Magazine)

Top 100 Verdicts of 2007 (#26) for Mraz vs. DaimlerChrysler Corp. (ALM)

AV RATING 5 (highest level) FROM MARTINDALE-HUBBLE for more than 10 years)
1999-2000: AV rating 5, Martindale-Hubbell
2000-2001: AV rating 5, Martindale-Hubbell
2001-2002: AV rating 5, Martindale-Hubbell
2002-2003: AV rating 5, Martindale-Hubbell
2003-2004: AV rating 5, Martindale-Hubbell
2004-2005: AV rating 5, Martindale-Hubbell
2005-2006: AV rating 5, Martindale-Hubbell
2006-2007: AV rating 5, Martindale-Hubbell
2007-2008: AV rating 5, Martindale-Hubbell
2008-2009: AV rating 5, Martindale-Hubbell
2009-2010: AV rating 5, Martindale-Hubbell
2010-2011: AV rating 5, Martindale-Hubbell

2007-2008: Southern California SuperLawyer
2008-2009: Southern California SuperLawyer
2000-2010: Southern California SuperLawyer
2010-2011: Southern California SuperLawyer