About Stephen Charpentier
Stephen G. Charpentier leads the Maher Law Firm's Brevard County operations through his own firm, Charpentier Law Firm, P.A., serving Melbourne, Titusville, and Cocoa for over 40 years. Mr. Charpentier came to Brevard County in 1965, obtained his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Central Florida, and then earned his Juris Doctor with honors from Florida State University College of Law in 1981, passing the bar immediately upon graduation. He worked for an established Brevard County civil litigation firm for two years before opening his own practice. Mr. Charpentier has been active in the Brevard Bar Foundation, served as President of the Brevard County Bar Association in 2005-2006, and chaired the Brevard County Legislative Task Force from 1999 to 2009.
He is a former chairman of the Florida Bar Grievance Committee for Brevard County, is admitted before the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida and the U.S. Supreme Court, and holds a Martindale-Hubbell AV rating. He received the Eagle Talon Award from the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers in 1990, 1994, and 1997, and the Silver Eagle Award in 2000. He is also a co-founder and co-moderator of the People's Law School and served on the Board of Trustees for Eastern Florida State College from 2008 to 2015.
Proven verdicts and settlements at The Maher Law Firm
These results are credited to The Maher Law Firm. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
C. Steven Yerrid, the youngest of Florida's 11-lawyer 'Dream Team,' added racketeering and conspiracy charges that tripled the damages ceiling, helping the state secure what was then the largest civil settlement in American history against the tobacco industry.
A Broward County jury awarded $24 million to the widower of Alana DeMella, a seven-months-pregnant hotel guest killed when a drunk driver crashed into a pool cabana at the Riverside Hotel in Fort Lauderdale in 2012.
A Florida jury awarded $10 million to the family of a 10-year-old boy with Down syndrome who died after a pharmacy dispensed more than ten times the prescribed dose of methadone.
A Philadelphia Common Pleas jury found Jeanes Hospital and Hillcrest Convalescent Home equally responsible for the pressure sores and infections that led to Joe Blango's death in 2008. It awarded $1 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. The trial court molded the compensatory award to $1,029,722.30 and remitted the punitive awards to $500,000 and $1 million, leaving about $2.53 million.
An Orlando federal jury awarded Virginia Redding $2.5 million after finding that Coloplast's NovaSilk pelvic organ prolapse mesh was defectively designed and that the company had concealed known risks from her physician, in what was the first jury verdict against Coloplast for that specific device.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
