Charles J. Faruki, Esq.

Areas of Practice: Complex Litigation, including Intellectual Property and Antitrust

Law School: Ohio State University, J.D. cum laude, 1973

Undergraduate: University of Cincinnati, B.A., Political Science, summa cum laude, 1971

Charlie is a trial lawyer. He concentrates his practice in the area of business litigation. He has represented numerous corporations in litigation in state and federal courts, and before numerous federal and state agencies. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the Litigation Counsel of America, the American Bar Foundation, the Ohio State Bar Foundation, and the Dayton Bar Foundation. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He is a past president of the Dayton Bar Association, and of the Dayton Chapter, Federal Bar Association.

He was voted by his peers as one of the Top Ten Lawyers in Ohio again in 2010, in Ohio’s Super Lawyers’ Survey; is on the “Dayton’s Most Powerful” list, based on a survey conducted by the Dayton Business Journal of Dayton-area CEO’s and other community leaders, and was selected as one of the most influential people in Greater Dayton (one of only three lawyers on the list). He is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in the Midwest, Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders in America, and The Best Lawyers in America, and in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Charlie is the author of numerous articles published in law reviews and professional journals, has spoken many times at continuing legal education programs and educational seminars for businesses.

Charlie has tried a wide variety of business cases to juries. He has tried to judgment intellectual property cases (having tried patent, trademark and copyright cases), and cases involving antitrust, employment, product liability, breach of contract or warranty, terminated distributorships, trade secrets, and fraud claims, and various statutory theories.

He has also tried injunction cases, handled numerous class actions, shareholder litigation, multidistrict litigation, and insurance coverage disputes. He has argued cases in the Supreme Court of Ohio, and in the Second, Fourth, Sixth, Eighth and Ninth Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals, and in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Among his many activities, Charlie chairs the Bar Examination Committee of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, and is a longtime member and current Chair of the Board of Governors of the Antitrust Law Section of the Ohio State Bar Association, and is immediate past Chair of the Federal Courts and Practice Committee of the Ohio State Bar Association. He has also been an Adjunct Professor of the School of Law, University of Dayton, teaching Antitrust.

Practicing: Business Litigation