Charles Arthur Bennett
Personal Injury Lawyer at Bennett Injury Law
Charles Bennett is a personal injury lawyer and a trial consultant. In 2019, cases he consulted on won over $35,000,000.00 in 8 verdicts. He has personally tried cases to verdict for personal injury plaintiffs, criminal prosecution, and criminal defense. Charles is the principal attorney for Bennett Injury Law. He specializes in commercial/18-wheeler crashes, wrongful death and catastrophic injury, traumatic brain damage, motor vehicle crashes, and workplace injuries. Charles is known as a tough, aggressive litigator who uses the tools of the law to put maximum pressure on the defense to force them into either paying full value for a case or taking unreasonable positions at trial.
As a consultant, Charles operates Trial Structure, LLC the #1 plaintiff's litigation strategy program in the country (www.trialstructure.com). Trial Structure is a system for writing the opening statement that identifies the defenses and defeats their playbook by organizing information in a way that dramatically increases the value of the case. Once written, the opening statement acts as a roadmap for the rest of trial from voir dire, to evidence, to closing and rebuttal. Trial Structure, LLC also teaches other lawyers around the country how to implement the structure into their practice to increase their effectiveness and the value of their cases.
Charles graduated law school cum laude from SMU Dedman School of Law in Dallas in 2014.
Prior to going to law school, Charles attended Midwestern State University on full athletic scholarship. He graduated with a degree in kinesiology and a minor in mathematics and was captain of the basketball team his senior year, a two-time academic all-conference selection, won two conference championships, and finished his career top 20 in scoring and top 15 in rebounding in school history.
- SMU Dedman School of Law
- J.D. (2014) | Law
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- Honors: Cum Laude
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- Midwestern State University
- B.S. (2001) | Kinesiology and Mathematics
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- Teen Court Judge/Mentor
- Wylie Teen Court
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- Charles Bennett helped establish the Wylie Teen Court. Teen Court is a specially designed court that hears certain Class C misdemeanor cases filed in the Wylie Municipal Court. Charles helped to teach and mentor volunteer high school students interested in becoming attorneys. He helped the students learn how to prosecute and defend cases, as well as explain the facts of the case to a panel of six Teen Court Jurors. Charles volunteered as Teen Court Judge for several years and helped prepare a group of Teen Court attorneys for the Teen Court Association of Texas mock trial competition., 2016
- How to Master Opening Statement, 2020 John Romano Workhorse, West Palm Beach
- Florida Justice Association
- How to Master Opening Statement, Southern Trial Lawyers Annual Conference, New Orleans
- Southern Trial Lawyers Association
- How to Master Opening Statement, National Trial Lawyers Summit, Miami
- National Trial Lawyers Association
- Rising Star
- Super Lawyers
- Top 40 Under 40
- National Trial Lawyers
- Southern Trial Lawyers Association
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- National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40
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- Mesquite Bar Association
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- American Association of Justice
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- Dallas Bar Association
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- Dallas Trial Lawyers Association
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- Texas Trial Lawyers Association
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- American Bar Association
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- Texas
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- Federal Circuit
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- United States Court of Federal Claims
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- Free Consultation
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Contingent Fees
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Commercial / 18 Wheeler
- Wrongful Death
- Brain Injury
- Car Accident
- Litigation
- English