About Charles Binder

Most people keep a personal picture on their desks. Usually, it’s a family member. Sometimes it’s a pet. Charles Binder has a picture of The Lone Ranger on his desk. “He didn’t have any magical superhero powers, but he always did the right thing,” is how Charles explains why he likes that picture. Charles is in charge of seeing to it that Binder & Binder® “do the right thing” for our clients.

Charles never takes the easy way out. His favorite client, and a case in point, is an orphaned woman who was born with no ears. By the time she was 6, she’d had dozens of operations to try to correct the problem, but they were only partially successful. Her high-pitched voice and unusual appearance made it easy for the kids at school to make fun of her. That took an awful emotional toll on her. It made her try to hide from life. Kids can be cruel. So can adults.

As an adult, she applied for Social Security Disability benefits and was denied. So she hired Binder & Binder®, and Charles took a personal interest in her case. “I had to. She was really defenseless and just about out of hope” he says.

Since she had never worked, Charles had to prove her disability started before age 21, which was 9 years before she became a client. If that wasn’t hard enough, she was reclusive and scared to see a doctor so she hadn’t seen one in years.

Charles is a graduate of Georgetown University Law School and a member of the New York Bar. But that’s kind of a disguise. In reality, most of the people who know him will tell you he’s a 21st-century version of the guy who rode the range in the Old West… doing the right thing… the Man in the famous mask whose picture is on Charles’ desk. Of course, New York guys don’t run around wearing a famous mask. But sometimes, they do go around wearing a famous hat.