Charles Prueter is a Birmingham, Alabama attorney who grew up in Northeast Ohio, began his legal career as a judicial law clerk in Houston, Texas, and has called Birmingham home since 2014. Before joining Fortif Law Partners in 2022, Charles spent the majority of his private practice career litigating complex commercial disputes and governmental enforcement actions across the country with a large Southeast-based law firm.

At Fortif, Charles continues that litigation and dispute resolution practice while also offering innovative, efficient counsel to clients who need smart solutions outside the courtroom. His clients span a wide range of industries including healthcare, publishing, financial services, retail, hospitality, and manufacturing, and they rely on his sharp problem-solving instincts across all of them.

Charles believes the keys to positive outcomes are persuasive writing, thorough fact-finding and analysis, and a genuine appreciation for how his clients' businesses actually operate. Sometimes that means taking cases through the Alabama state or federal courts of appeals. Other times it means executing a strategy that keeps clients out of the courtroom entirely.

Charles and his wife Susan live in Bluff Park with their three children, all of whom brighten his life in their own ways.