Charles Thronson is a senior shareholder in the Litigation practice group and head of the Personal Injury Division at Parsons Behle & Latimer. He has over 35 years of experience and practices throughout the Western United States in the areas of personal injury, trucking injuries, medical malpractice (especially birth injury cases), whistleblower (Qui Tam) and products liability cases.

Mr. Thronson has handled a number of cases for personal injury and medical malpractice clients that have generated some of the largest verdicts and settlements in the region. In 2015 he achieved the largest personal injury/medical malpractice verdict in the state's history.

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 Plaintiffs' Lawyer of the Year - Medical Malpractice (Salt Lake City)).

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

Listed in Best Lawyers in America (1995 - present) in Medical Malpractice, Litigation, and Personal Injury Litigation

Selected to the 2015 list as a member of the Nation's Top One Percent by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel

Named ACQ Law Awards Leading Lawyer of the Year, 2013 - 2016, Personal Injury (Utah)

Named Best Lawyers' 2012, 2016 Plaintiffs' Lawyer of the Year for Salt Lake City in Medical Malpractice Law

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