Charles M. Rittgers is a trial lawyer with a record of success in criminal defense, DUI, and injury cases. Charlie’s record includes not guilty jury verdicts in numerous cases in which no plea bargain was offered by the prosecutor, including murder, DUI, and domestic violence. In injury cases, Charlie is willing to take cases to trial that most lawyers would settle. For example, despite having a $1,000,000 offer from an insurance company to settle a motorcycle crash case, Charlie and his client refused the offer, took the case to a summary jury trial, and received a verdict of $9,000,000.
In the last five years alone, 2019 through 2023, Charlie successfully helped clients receive maximum value in a variety of cases including settlements of $7 million, $7 million (policy limit), $5 million, $3 million, $3 million (policy limit), $2.8 million, $2.75 million, $2.1 million (policy limit), $1.1 million (policy limit), and multiple $1 million policy limit recoveries.
Charlie is willing to go to trial when most lawyers would settle. For example, Matt Nakajima and Charlie turned down a $25,000 offer and received a $3 million jury verdict on a difficult case in Hamilton County, Ohio. In the same year, Charlie and his father, Charles H. Rittgers, garnered international attention after obtaining a not guilty jury verdict in an aggravated murder case involving a false confession in Warren County, Ohio.
