Charles M. Noteboom Email Chuck Noteboom

When Chuck Noteboom built a soccer and baseball field for his kids, TV crews and newspaper reporters from miles around showed up to write stories about his latest project. What Chuck couldn’t understand, however, is where all those reporters were when he won a $102 million jury verdict against State Farm Insurance Company, or when he won a $250 million verdict against a negligent nursing home, not to mention numerous million-dollar verdicts and settlements.

From 1966 until he graduated from the University of Texas Law School in 1977, Chuck – or "boy" as he was then called – had a series of life shaping jobs. At age 14, he started as a landscaper's helper (hole digger), and then took a job cleaning up construction sites for a homebuilder. Chuck then worked as a plumber's helper (ditch digger) before moving up in the business world as a gasoline station attendant.

While attending high school, he worked 70 hours per week in the summer, but only 40 hours per week during school. After starting college, Chuck worked in a McDonalds before trying his hand as a warehouseman (truck loader). He then worked for a department store as their trash burner, and later as a janitor for an apartment complex.

After his parents moved to Little Rock, Chuck was able to get work as a shoveler on an asphalt crew. He tried driving the asphalt roller, but did not prove talented enough to give up his shovel. He also worked on a cement crew, and once again found his talent lay with a shovel after trying his hand at finishing and forming. His first real indoor job was in Chicago in 1973 as an apprentice butcher. His butcher shop employment was followed by another indoor job as a tie salesman.

After earning a degree in advertising from the University of Illinois in 1974, Chuck worked as an advertising intern (not much different than ditch digger). He then became a teaching assistant at the University of Texas College of Communications. By the summer of 1976, Chuck found a job at the Federal Trade Commission, although they declined to offer him full-time employment since he wasn’t in the top 10% of his class. Chuck then took a job listed in the work program at the UT Law School, and found himself investigating car wrecks for an Austin law firm.

At the age of 25, he decided he wanted to represent people who didn't wear ties. So, after graduating in 1977 from the top University of Texas Law School, he began working for personal injury lawyer Wallace Craig in Hurst. In 1982 Chuck opened his own law firm.

Today, Chuck’s law firm has a support staff of 22. The firm accepts only about 2 percent of the cases they see each year. Chuck concentrates his practice in wrongful death cases.

Mr. Noteboom is admitted to the State Bar of Texas and has been Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1983. He holds a certificate in Civil Trial Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and has been named Barrister Emeritus, Order of Barristers, by Texas Wesleyan University School of Law. Mr. Noteboom is the Chairman of the Warren E. Burger Society of the National Center for State Courts. He is also a member of the American Bar Association, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, and Tarrant County Bar Association. Mr. Noteboom also served as the President of the Tarrant County Trial Lawyers Association and is the Chair for the Tarrant County Bar Foundation. Mr. Noteboom has been featured as an expert commentator on national and local radio and television and has spoken at various continuing legal education seminars. Mr. Noteboom is the only lawyer in history to obtain two nine figure jury verdicts in Tarrant County.