Charles "Chuck" R. Work was born June 21, 1940, in Glendale, CA. He is married, has three children, and spent most of his life in Washington, DC[^1] (now retired and living in Naples, Florida). He graduated from Wesleyan University (B.A., 1962), the University of Chicago Law School (J.D., 1965), and the Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M., 1966). He passed the bar exam in 1965. In 1966 Work became an Assistant United States Attorney (criminal trial section). In 1969 he moved to to the Superior Court Division, the division responsible for prosecuting all local crime in the District of Columbia, as Deputy Chief and finally Chief until he left in 1973. In 1973, Work became the Deputy Administrator of the [[LEAA|Law Enforcement Assistance Administration]] (via [[Richard Nixon|Richard Nixon's]] Presidential nomination and Senate confirmation) within the [[U.S. Department of Justice]] until 1975 at which point he became a partner at Peabody, Lambert & Meyers. In 1983 Work moved to McDermott, Will & Emery where he was the Partner-In-Charge of DC through 1997 (now retired).[^2] Following Nixon’s resignation, Work was close personal friends with one of [[Ford administration|President Ford’s]] speech writers and used that connection to encourage Ford to come out as tough on crime and career criminals (bolstering the LEAA).[^3] In 1985, [[Reagan administration|Ronald Reagan]] appointed him a member of the District of Columbia Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure, the body that reappoints and disciplines the judges of the District of Columbia. Work has handled civil and criminal matters in state and federal courts as well as matters before various federal agencies, including the International Trade Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Office of the Independent Counsel. Chuck has on a number of occasions represented former government officials, business executives and trade association executives with respect to employment contract and compensation issues. He is a former president of the D.C. Bar. In 1978, he received the Rockefeller Public Service Award for Administering Justice and Reducing Crime. ## Notable Cases #### Wesley Jessen Corporation vs. Bausch & Lomb, Inc. A patent trial in the U.S. District Court in Delaware involving contact lenses. #### United States of America v. Quorum A significant health care fraud case in the U.S. District Court in Tampa, Florida. #### United States of America v. Lockheed Martin Corporation and Northrup Grumman Corporation Co-lead counsel on behalf of the Lockheed Martin Corporation in which the United States sued to enjoin the merger of the two companies #### Aristotle Publishing, Inc. v. CDB Infotech a case involving data rights ## INSLAW Charles R. Work hired [[INSLAW]] to write the first version of [[PROMIS]] for the [[U.S. Attorney's office]]. He appears to have been close to [[Bill Hamilton]] who thanked him specifically and profusely for enabling the PROMIS program to proceed. Work continued to fund INSLAW during his tenure as Deputy Administrator of LEAA. During [[Inslaw, Inc., et al. v. The United States]] Work was co-lead counsel. ## MISC Was appointed by the United States District Court as guardian ad litem of the Vietnamese orphans who survived a plane crash in Saigon in 1975. #### Footnotes [^1]: [Appointment of Charles R. Work as a Member of the District of Columbia Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/appointment-charles-r-work-member-the-district-columbia-commission-judicial-disabilities) [^2]: [Charles R. Work - Atlantic Legal Foundation](https://atlanticlegal.org/directors/charles-r-work) [^3]: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/acprod/odb_etd/ws/send_file/send?accession=osu1487081370607576&disposition=inline