Charles S. Fax

Charles S. Fax is Of Counsel to the law firm of Rifkin Weiner Livingston LLC, resident in its Bethesda, Maryland office.  Mr. Fax concentrates in business litigation and corporate/contractual disputes, including False Claims Act cases, business fraud, insurance coverage, business defamation and executive employment disputes.  He also represents plaintiffs and defendants in consumer class actions.  Representative clients include law firms, lawyers, closely held corporations, broker-dealers, trustees and business executives.  In 2017-18, Mr. Fax served as a member of the federal monitorship team for General Motors Company, and in 2019-2024, he is serving as a senior member of the federal monitorship team for the New York City Housing Authority.  Mr. Fax has held an AV Preeminent* peer-review rating through Martindale-Hubbell continuously since 1995. In 2006, Washington Smart CEO magazine named Mr. Fax one of Greater Washington's "Legal Elite."  Mr. Fax has been listed by "America's Top Bet the Company Litigators" since 2018, and by "America's Top 100 High Stakes Litigators" since 2019.  He taught as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law from 2010-2015, and authored a regular column on recent developments in civil procedure for the American Bar Association magazine "Litigation News" from 2008-2018.  He is the co-author of a treatise on discovery in the federal courts, "Discovery Problems and Their Solutions," published by ABA Publishing, initially released in 2005, and currently in its fourth edition.

Mr. Fax is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University (B.A. 1970) and George Washington University Law School (J.D. 1973, with Honors), where he was a member of the National Moot Court Team. Mr. Fax is a member of the bars of Maryland, New York and Washington, D.C., and is licensed to practice in federal circuit courts throughout the country and the United States Supreme Court.

*AV Preeminent and BV Distinguished are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell peer review ratings fall into two categories: legal ability and general ethical standards.