Charlie Finlayson
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About Charlie Finlayson
Charlie Finlayson is a Partner and Trial Lawyer at Claggett & Sykes Trial Lawyers, focusing on appellate law.
Finlayson earned his Juris Doctor from DePaul University College of Law in 2011 and his Bachelor of Science from Central Michigan University in 2008. He is admitted to the State Bar of Nevada, the State Bar of California, and the State Bar of Illinois.
Finlayson began his legal career as a staff attorney in the Nevada Supreme Court's criminal division, handling appeals and death penalty cases for seven years. He then worked at the Nevada Attorney General's Office defending criminal convictions. At Claggett & Sykes, he has handled appellate matters involving sexual assault, gun violence, and racial discrimination in jury selection. Chief Justice James W. Hardesty described him as one of the most skilled legal writers in the appellate system. He serves on the Nevada Supreme Court Commission on Nevada Rules of Appellate Procedure, as Vice Chair of Nevada Lawyer magazine, and on the board of Northern Nevada Legal Aid.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Claggett & Sykes Trial Lawyers
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A Utah judge entered a $951 million default judgment against Steward Health Care after newly trained nurses, an excessive Pitocin drip, and a delayed C-section at Jordan Valley Medical Center left a newborn permanently brain damaged.
A Rio Arriba County jury held Acadia Healthcare and its New Mexico foster care subsidiaries responsible for placing an 8-year-old girl with a foster father who raped her repeatedly, returning one of the largest single-plaintiff sexual abuse verdicts in the country.
A 20-year-old painter suffered a traumatic brain injury in a 2021 ladder fall in Utah. A Denver jury found his workers' compensation carrier, NorGUARD Insurance, knowingly and unreasonably delayed and denied his care, including inpatient rehabilitation. It awarded $145.26 million, made up of $85.26 million in compensatory and $60 million in punitive damages.
A retrial jury in Utah's Fourth District Court awarded $81 million against Beacon Roofing Supply after one of its trucks struck and killed a 12-year-old boy who was crossing legally in a marked crosswalk.
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