About Charles E. Halbert
Charles E. Halbert Jr. has spent more than three decades working in Arkansas courts and federal appellate filings. He built a career that moves between public service and private practice, and he has remained active in professional associations that touch both criminal defense and trial work.
Halbert studied at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, completing his legal education there in 1991. He remained tied to the university community through the late 1980s and into the early 1990s while he prepared for a career in litigation and courtroom practice.
Early in his career he served as a public defender in Phillips County from 1994 to 2002. That role placed him at the center of indigent defense work, handling a steady docket of trials and pretrial litigation. Overlapping with that period, he worked for the Arkansas Child Support Enforcement office from 1995 to 2000, undertaking enforcement responsibilities that involved both administrative hearings and courtroom appearances. Those consecutive posts gave him exposure to criminal defense, family-related enforcement matters, and selected civil litigation.
Halbert has been active in legal organizations for much of his career. He is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and was a founding member of the Arkansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He has also been affiliated with statewide trial lawyer groups dating back to the early 1990s and has volunteered time for programs serving elderly clients.
His professional recognitions include placement on the National Association of Trial Lawyers’ Top 100 list in 2014. That listing appears among several peer-oriented acknowledgments he has received over the years. He is admitted to practice in Arkansas and has appeared before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Halbert moved into private practice after his years in public office and now operates out of the Halbert Law Office. There he continues to represent clients in courtroom matters, drawing on his public defender experience and his time in child support enforcement. His work combines trial and litigation practice in state and federal venues.
He remains active in professional and community legal programs and devotes his practice to criminal defense, litigation, and enforcement-related matters at the Halbert Law Office.
