Charles L. Howard

Charles L. Howard has extensive litigation experience in state and federal court in a wide range of matters, including over seventy-five appeals. His intellectual property litigation experience encompasses copyright, trademark, trade secret, covenant not to compete and patent litigation, including proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

His business and public sector litigation experience includes representation of business clients in many diverse matters, and representation of the State of Connecticut, quasi-public state agencies, and municipalities.

Chuck is the author of The Organizational Ombudsman: Origins, Roles and Operations-A Legal Guide, and has a national practice in representing organizational ombudsmen at universities and multinational corporations. He has lectured and written extensively on ombuds and related topics.

In January of 2002, he was appointed by the United States Sentencing Commission to serve as one of sixteen members to a national Advisory Group to review and recommend revisions to the federal organizational sentencing guidelines. Chuck serves on the ABA Dispute Resolution Council and is also a member of the Dispute Resolution Section Publications Board.

Chuck is an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association. He was an Assistant Attorney General for Attorney General John C. Danforth of Missouri from 1975-1976.

Chuck Howard serves as General Counsel to Shipman & Goodwin. From 1985-2000 he was Chair of the Litigation Department.

Professional Affiliations:

• American Bar Association
• Connecticut Bar Association
• Hartford County Bar Association
• Missouri Bar Association
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• American Arbitration Association: Arbitrator
• Oliver Ellsworth Inn of Court

Education:

• University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1975
• Princeton University, A.B., 1972, cum laude