Charles Higgins

Mr. Higgins has been recognized by his peers for his success in the courtroom and leadership in the legal community. He is a graduate of the Tennessee Bar Association Leadership Law Class of 2020 and was named a Fellow of the Memphis Bar Association in 2022. He is currently a Barrister in the Leo Bearman, Sr., Chapter of the American Inns of Court. He has also been named to the Super Lawyers list in 2025 after making the Super Lawyers Rising Star list every year from 2016 through 2023. Mr. Higgins has won trial verdicts in numerous state and federal courts, including helping to obtain a $3,437,500 jury verdict in federal court in Memphis. Mr. Higgins was successful in helping to preserve the verdict on appeal, which involved filing briefs with the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and both the Tennessee Supreme Court and United States Supreme Court, and resulted in the Sixth Circuit ruling that Tennessee's cap on punitive damages was unconstitutional. Originally from the Chicago suburbs, Mr. Higgins first came to the Mid-South as a school teacher and high school basketball coach with Teach for America, living and working in Marianna, Arkansas. Mr. Higgins then attended law school at the University of Minnesota, where he served as a managing editor of the law review, was elected to the Order of the Coif honor society, and graduated magna cum laude. Following law school, Mr. Higgins served a judicial law clerk for then Chief Judge Jon P. McCalla of the United States District Court