Charles Beall is board certified in both civil trial and appellate practice by The Florida Bar Board of Legal Specialization—one of just 5 attorneys in the state of Florida certified in both areas and one of just two attorneys west of Tallahassee certified in appellate practice. He is a past chair of The Florida Bar’s Appellate Practice Certification Committee and served on the committee from 2004 through 2010.

Mr. Beall has handled more than 250 appellate matters in state and federal courts and has conducted more than 75 oral arguments, resulting in more than 60 published opinions. His appeals have included virtually all types of matters, from final judgments following jury and judge trials, to summary final judgments, to appeals from non-final orders to a variety of original proceedings and extraordinary writs. In 2021 and 2022, he served as the lead legal and appellate counsel for the defendants at 12 of the 16 “bellwether” trials in the largest multi-district litigation in the history of the federal court system.

At the trial level, Mr. Beall has represented hundreds of clients ranging from individuals to multinational corporations—including several Fortune 500 companies—in a wide variety of civil litigation, including products liability suits, business and contract claims, and insurance coverage disputes. He has tried more than a dozen civil jury trials to verdict as lead counsel and has served on the trial team of several multi-week trials. Mr. Beall has considerable experience in complex civil litigation, including the defense of class actions and mass torts, and has recovered millions of dollars for insureds in hurricane claims against insurance companies.

Mr. Beall is active in both legal and civic organizations. He is immediate past president of both the Rotary Club of Pensacola and the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Beall served as president of the Escambia-Santa Rosa Bar Association in 2004-2005 and served on The Florida Bar’s Board of Legal Specialization and Education from 2014-2017. For the past 20 years, Mr. Beall has served on the board of directors of Lakeview Center, Inc., which provides mental health and substance abuse services throughout northwest Florida. He is an active member of the First United Methodist Church of Pensacola and has served on both the finance committee and the board of trustees.

Mr. Beall is a 1991 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and served on the editorial board of the Virginia Law Review. From 1991 through 1996, he was a trial attorney with the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in commercial litigation and appeals. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction from the University of Virginia in 1987.