Attorney Profiles

Areas of Practice

• General Civil Litigation & Insurance Defense
• Labor & Employment
• Product Liability & Personal Injury
• State, County & Municipal Governmental Liability
• Insurance Coverage & Unfair Trade Practices
• Environmental Law & Natural Resources
• Medical & Healthcare Malpractice
• Toxic & Mass Torts
• Construction & Design Defect
• Corporations & Business Litigation

Litigation Percentage

• 99% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions

• West Virginia, 1997
• U.S. District Court Northern District of West Virginia, 1997
• U.S. District Court Southern District of West Virginia, 1997
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 2002

Education

• West Virginia University College of Law, Morgantown, West Virginia, May, 1997
  J.D.
  
  
• Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, May, 1994
  B.A. Criminal Justice
  Honors: Cum Laude
  Honors: Criminal Justice Honor Society
  
  
• Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, December, 1990
  A.A.S. Legal Assisting
  
  

Representative Cases

• Calabrese v. City of Charleston, 204 W. Va. 650, 515 S.E.2d 814 (West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals 1999)
• State ex rel. Smith v. Thornsbury, 214 W. Va. 228, 588 S.E.2d 217 (West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals 2003)

Representative Clients

• Dairyland Insurance Company
• GEICO Indemnity Company
• AIG
• American Cytopathology Services, Inc.
• Peak Property & Casualty Insurance Corporation
• Viking Insurance Company

Professional Associations and Memberships

• West Virginia State Bar, October 6, 1997 - Present
  
  
• Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia, 2001 - Present
  
  
• Defense Research Institute, 2004 - Present
  
  
• Kanawha County Bar Association, December 1, 1998 - Present
  
  

Birth Information

• November 28, 1968, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America