Representative Experience
- Two years as financial institution in-house general counsel
- Loan transactions representing banks, lenders and borrowers
- Loan workouts and restructures
- General business transactions
- Business transactions in the health care industry
- Counsel, since 1994, for West Virginia Jobs Investment Trust Board, a state-sponsored venture capital fund
- Banking and commercial litigation
Education
- West Virginia University, B.S., 1962
- West Virginia University, J.D., 1968
Admissions
- West Virginia State Bar
- West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
- United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia
Affiliations
- Kanawha County Bar Association
- West Virginia State Bar - Past Chairperson, Banking and Business Law Committee
Awards and Distinctions
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Corporate Law
- Martindale Hubbell Rating: AV (Highest)
- West Virginia Bar Foundation Fellow - 2008
Other
- United States Marine Corps, Active Duty, June 1962 through June 1965
- Order of the Coif
- West Virginia Law Review
- First Presbyterian Church, Charleston
- Salvation Army Advisory Board, Charleston Command
- Appalachian Children's Chorus, Board Member