Charley A. Davidson

Focusing his practice exclusively on criminal defense matters at the state and federal level, Charley A. Davidson is a partner at Hanszen LaPorte and the head of the firm's criminal defense practice group. Based in Houston, Texas, he represents people throughout the greater metropolitan area who have been charged with misdemeanor or felony offenses. The types of matters that Mr. Davidson has handled have included mail fraud, money laundering, and other white collar crimes, bribery, driving under the influence of alcohol, burglary, extortion, weapons violations, sex crimes, vehicular homicide, and murder. He has been able to obtain acquittals in several of his trials, while in others he has successfully negotiated favorable plea agreements with the prosecution. Mr. Davidson's courtroom successes have not gone unnoticed by his fellow attorneys, who have given him an AV Preeminent* peer review rating through Martindale-Hubbell. He has also been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America.

Mr. Davidson received a Bachelor of Arts cum laude from The University of Texas at Austin in 1975. Remaining on campus, he pursued his legal education at The University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where he was inducted into the Order of Barristers and served on The American Journal of Criminal Law before being awarded his Juris Doctor in 1978. Mr. Davidson was a partner at an international white collar criminal defense firm before joining Hanszen Laporte.

Admitted to practice in Texas, Mr. Davidson is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, and several other federal courts. He is a member of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, and he is a fellow of the Houston Bar Foundation.

*AV®, AV Preeminent®, Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished and Martindale-Hubbell Notable are certification marks used under license 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 Rating™ fall into two categories – legal ability and general ethical standards.