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United States of America

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Charles K. O'Neill

Managing Partner

Practice Description

Charles O’Neill has served as Chadbourne’s Managing Partner since 1998 and is a member of the Firm’s five-person Management Committee. While he currently devotes much of his time to his duties as Managing Partner, he has extensive commercial, insurance coverage and product liability litigation experience in many federal and state courts.

Representative Matters

  • Represented a major U.S. corporation in a claim as plaintiff for breach of indemnity provisions regarding environmental liabilities in an agreement of sale of a subsidiary. 
  • Represented a major U.S. insurance broker in a series of cases involving restrictive covenants. 
  • Represented a satellite company in the defense of a tortious interference with contract claim. 
  • Represented a major U.S. insurer as its national trial counsel responsible for that client’s coordinated defense in all coverage actions in the United States involving environmental and breast implant claims. 
  • Represented air carriers in major personal injury and property damage actions. 
  • Acted as national trial counsel for a major U.S. corporation in its defense of product liability actions nationwide involving telecommunications equipment.

Honors

Mr. O'Neil is cited in the 2010 edition of SuperLawyers in the specialty of business litigation. He is also cited in New York Super Lawyers (2007) for business litigation.

Activities and Affiliations

  • Member: Association of the Bar of the City of New York; New York State Bar Association; American Bar Association; and Federal Bar Council 
  • Board of Trustees: New York Methodist Hospital 
  • Director:
    • Fordham Law Alumni Association
    • CAMBA Legal Services, a not-for-profit organization providing legal services in the areas of housing, government benefits and immigration to indigent individuals and under-served groups in the Brooklyn community 
    • Chadbourne & Parke Foundation, established by the Firm to make donations to charitable organizations that provide financial assistance to families and individuals impacted by the World Trade Center attack who are ineligible for other substantial assistance

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Practice Areas

Litigation

Commercial Litigation

Environmental

Insurance and Reinsurance

Products Liability Counseling and Defense

Regions

North America

United States

Education

  • University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1969
  • Fordham University School of Law, J.D., Editorial Board, Fordham Law Review; Member, National Moot Court Team, 1972

Admissions

1973

New York

1974

U.S.D.C. - E.D.N.Y.

1974

U.S.D.C. - S.D.N.Y.

1977

U.S. Ct. App. - 2nd Cir.

1980

U.S. Ct. App. - 9th Cir.

1979

U.S. Ct. App. - D.C. Cir.

1979

U.S. Sup. Ct.

Languages

English