Experience

Atlanta Bar Association

• United States
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• active member

  • 1975 - Present

• Estate Planning & Probate section co-founder

  • 1996 - Present



State Bar of Georgia

• United States
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• member

  • 1974 - Present



WealthCounsel, LLC

• United States
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal

  • 1993 - Nov 2018

  Mr. Newton practices primarily in the Atlanta area, a trusts, estates, and business lawyer, also serving as a director, member manager, and officer of various private business entities. He is co-founder of the Estate Planning & Probate Section (1996) of the Atlanta Bar Association, and served several years as an officer and member of the Board of Directors. He is a member of the Georgia Planned Giving Council and a founding member of WealthCounsel LLC. He is a member of the Fiduciary Law section of the State Bar of Georgia and serves in the State Bar Fee Dispute Arbitration program. An active member of the Atlanta Bar, he served several terms on the Editorial Board and writing for "The Atlanta Lawyer"​ journal, worked on the Technology Committee, and is a member of the Litigation and Small Firm Practice sections. He was a property & casualty litigation lawyer with Shoob, McLain, Jessee, Merritt & Lyle, and Howard & Gilliland (Decatur), and the MARTA legal staff (Managing Attorney of Torts), then his own litigation /mediation /arbitration practice, before focusing on estates, trust, probate, and business law. Charlie serves as a Probate Information Center attorney volunteer, Probate Courts of Fulton and DeKalb Counties; and he is a Keys to Justice Society member of the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation. He has appeared on the WXIA-TV Atlanta consumer program "Call For Action;"​ and he has been interviewed by the Atlanta Business Chronicle on estate planning and charitable giving. He has also been active with the "Bard Association" of the Atlanta Bar, fundraising for the Atlanta Bar Foundation, and worked on the Olympics Coordinating Committee of the Atlanta Bar.He conducts mediation to facilitate dispute resolution, and since 1986 has been an arbitrator, mediator, and special master, privately and by appointment of various metro Atlanta Georgia courts. Show less

• Founding Member of WealthCounsel LLC

  • 1999 - 2016



US Army Active Reserve

• 81st USARCOM, East Point, Georgia

• Military Intelligence /Counter-Intel Officer

  • Jun 1975 - Jul 1986

  Safety & Security Officer for 1188th Military Ocean Terminal Unit and S&S liaison & adviser to 1188th MOTU subordinate units. Top Secret security clearance via DIA /SBI; Army Commendation Medal. Safety & Security Officer for 1188th Military Ocean Terminal Unit and S&S liaison & adviser to 1188th MOTU subordinate units. Top Secret security clearance via DIA /SBI; Army Commendation Medal.



Howard & Gilliland

• Business, tort, estate & arbitration /mediation lawyer

  • 1980 - 1985

  Business, tort and estate law; arbitration /mediation; colleague of Hon. Pierre Howard, former Georgia Lieutenant Governor. Business, tort and estate law; arbitration /mediation; colleague of Hon. Pierre Howard, former Georgia Lieutenant Governor.