Charles G Curtis Jr

Practice Areas

Litigation

Business Litigation

Appeals, Issues & Strategy

Native American Law & Policy

Environment, Energy & Resources

Environmental Litigation

Political Law

Career

Chuck Curtis has over 40 years of experience in representing clients in diverse areas, including constitutional, appellate, administrative, political, antitrust, intellectual property, environmental and natural resource, Native American, distribution, and general commercial law. He has been included in the Chambers USA Wisconsin General Commercial Litigation rankings since 2004.

Chuck has advocated for clients before administrative agencies and in federal and state courts at both the trial and appellate levels, including the Supreme Court of the United States. His commercial litigation clients have included global leaders in technology, manufacturing, mining, sports, finance, pharmaceuticals, and consumer goods. Chuck has devoted much of his time in recent years to litigation involving voting rights and election law disputes, including in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 presidential campaigns.

Chuck clerked for Senior Judge David L. Bazelon (DC Circuit) and for Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. (U.S. Supreme Court). Prior to joining Perkins Coie, Chuck was a founder and co-chair of two Am Law 100 firms’ national appellate practice groups.