Representative Experience
- Numerous trials in circuit courts and United States District Courts
- Trial counsel for corporate clients in mass toxic exposure matters, including class actions
- Lead counsel for corporate clients in consolidated product liability matters
- Defense of medical device manufacturers
- Liaison counsel for manufacturers in mass tort litigation in federal and state courts
- Defense of hospitals, individuals and corporations in health care litigation, both civil and criminal
- Hospital privileges litigation
- Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse
- Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Kanawha County, West Virginia, 1981 - 1991
Education
- Marshall University, B.A., 1977
- West Virginia University, J.D., 1980
Admissions
- West Virginia State Bar
- West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
- United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia
- United States Courts of Appeals for the Third and Fourth Circuits
Awards and Distinctions
- AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Commercial Litigation and Criminal Defense
- Recognized as a Leading Commercial Litigation Attorney in Chambers USA America's Leading Business Lawyers
- Recognized as a West Virginia Super Lawyer
- International Association of Defense Counsel, member; IADC 2011 Trial Academy, faculty member; Vice Chair of Newsletters for Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee; West Virginia Membership Chair
- American Inns of Court, Judge John A. Field, Jr. Chapter, Master of the Bench, emeritus
Other
- Litigation Counsel of America
- DRI, National Director; Public Policy Committee, member; Board Liaison to Drug and Medical Device Substantive Law Committee; Women in the Law Steering Committee, member; State Representatives Task Force; Minority Scholarship Committee
- DRI, past State Representative for West Virginia
- Lawyers for Civil Justice, member
- Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia, past president
- West Virginia Bar Foundation, past member of the Board of Directors
- West Virginia State Bar, past member of the Board of Governors
- American Bar Association, member
- Fund for the Arts, the Kanawha Valley's United Arts Fund, Board of Directors and past Vice President of Allocations