W. Chuck Trull

Vice President of Human Resources

Bio

Chuck Trull’s favorite thing about working for CR Legal Team is that it is an organization which persistently strives to live its Brand Promise to Stand Up for its clients and its employees and that it therefore empowers him to be creative in his duties as he reinforces that Brand Promise.

Having served previously in the firm’s operations management and now as Vice President of Human Resources, his pinnacle goal is to provide its clients with the best care and service possible through his direction of all facets of Human Resources and through maintaining an excellent, advancing workplace for the firm and its employees through his membership in the Society for Human Resource Management.

Prior to joining CR Legal Team, Chuck served in commercial insurance claims management for two international corporations. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Science and Industrial Relations. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a Master of Business Administration degree. He is also the recipient of the professional designation Associate in Claims from the Insurance Institute of America.

His passion, both in the workplace and in personal service, is to challenge and help others to see, develop, and use their gifts and talents to make positive impacts in their communities. That passion also creates his joy in his valuable investment of participating in the CR Legal Team Kids Zone program by teaching children safety and CPR skills.

Chuck is married and has three children in whose future he invests his passion to educate and coach. He also invests in helping other children and teens to be their best through his teaching at church and on mission trips and through his volunteering for organizations such as sports clubs and the Scouts. Chuck loves to travel with family and friends in order to experience new cultures, people, and art and loves playing games and participating in water activities. He is a huge football and basketball fan, especially for the North Carolina Tar Heels through his membership in the UNC Rams Club. As a result of all these positive goals and motivations, in 2016 Chuck received the Kimberley S. Roberts Servant’s Heart Spirit Award for his dedication and work with Back2Back Ministries in Monterrey, Mexico.

Education:

BA in Political Science, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BA in Industrial Relations, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Master of Business Administration, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Education

The Personal Injury Lawyers

Who'd Rather You Never Need Them

Kimberly and I met in 1992 as kindred spirits, both drawn to the idea of building something larger than ourselves—an extension of our family committed to serving others. We married in 1994, while I was practicing law, and Kimberly worked in healthcare consulting. We thought we understood how the legal system worked. Then September 19, 1995 changed everything.

It’s the worst possible situation to be in after a serious injury. I’m sitting across from a guy who’s supposed to be one of the better traumatic brain injury lawyers, but I’m realizing he doesn’t understand what Kimberly and I are going through!

I got hit by a tractor-trailer just two months before. My wife Kimberly—nineteen weeks pregnant with our first child—has had to watch me deal with personality changes, possible lifelong symptoms, and terrifying fears of our family's future.

What makes it all worse is the fact that I am a lawyer with years of experience, and yet even I can’t get the kind of representation we desperately need. It’s a scary situation.

I grew up in Charlotte. My mother was a teacher, my father a manager working with blue-collar contractors. My parents instilled in me a simple principle: stand up for people who can’t stand up for themselves. Becoming an Eagle Scout reinforced it.

Kimberly grew up in Rockingham, a small North Carolina community. Her parents, a nurse and a salesman, also instilled the importance of community service. Sunday mornings singing in youth prison ministry, working with rehabilitation centers, partnering with local organizations – all part of Kimberly’s youth and what shaped her heart.

My brain injury accident showed us that even being on the inside of the legal profession didn’t protect us from getting poor representation. Our lawyer didn’t really serve us well because he couldn’t put himself in our shoes.

After my personal injury, I knew exactly what kind of lawyer I wanted to be:

someone who truly understands what clients are going through because I've been there myself. Kimberly joined me, bringing her healthcare background and passion for wellness. We built our practice around a simple idea—we don't just handle your case, we understand your whole journey, and we prepare you for it.

Today we’ve been in business for 35 years and we’ve recovered billions of dollars for our clients, but more importantly, we’ve advanced our services to what we call “whole person legal care.” We don’t just fight for financial recovery—we address the physical, emotional, and mental needs that make up a whole person. We prepare people before accidents happen through safety education. We stand beside them during their recovery. And we help them figure out where to go when their time with us is done.

What drives us is knowing that if you know better, you have to do better. Through our Roberts Center, we give away thousands of bicycle helmets, teach CPR, provide scholarships, and run safety programs in schools because we’d rather prevent accidents happening to your family than litigate them.