Areas of Practice
• Personal Injury (car wrecks, products liability, fen-phen)
• Insurance Company Misconduct (bad faith)
• Employment Law (sexual harassment, wrongful discharge, discrimination)

Education
• West Virginia University, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration,
..majored in Finance
• West Virginia University College of Law, Juris Doctorate

Honors
• Student - Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyers College
.................Dubois, Wyoming
.................(1995)

• Member of Faculty - Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyers College
................Dubois, Wyoming
................(1996-present)

Offices Held
• Member, W.Va. Law Institute, Governing Council, June 2002 - June 2006
• President, W.Va. Trial Lawyers Association, 2001-2002
• Parliamentarian, Secretary, Treasurer, First Vice President, President-elect, W.Va. Trial Lawyers Association, 1996 - 2001
• Executive Committee, W.Va. Trial Lawyers Association, 1995-1998
• Chairman, State Government Committee, Mid-Ohio Valley Chamber
. of Commerce, 1998-2000
• Board of Governors, Parkersburg Area Community Foundation, 1992-1997
• Board of Governors, W.Va. State Bar, 1992-1995
• Chairman of Young Lawyers Section, W.Va. State Bar, 1990-1991
• President, Wood County Bar Association, 1988-1989
• Assistant City Attorney, City of Parkersburg, 1986-1988

Speeches, Seminar Presentations and Publications

** Seminar Presentations to the W.Va. State Bar **
Topic: "Strategies & Techniques in Civil Discovery" (1991)
Topic: "Life in the Pressure Cooker: The Days Before Trial" (The Trial of
..........an Automobile Case) (1994)
Topic: "Pre-Trial Preparation" (Trial Practice: CLE Highlights ) (1995)
Topic: “Can Lawyers Be Real?” (2001)

** Seminar Presentations to the W.Va. Trial Lawyers Association **
Topic: “Cross-Examination of the Rule 35 Doctor” (1992)
Topic: "Client Intake, Retention & Management" (1995)
Topic: "Discussion of Insurance During Trial - Not Always a Fatal Flaw” (1995)
Topic: “Developing the Theme of Your Case” (1998)

** Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College Regional Seminars **
Mohican State Park Resort, Perrysville, OH (1998)
Topic: “Voir Dire and Cross-examination”

Palomar State Park, San Diego, CA (1999)
Topic: “Opening Statement and Cross-examination”

Palomar State Park, San Diego, CA (2000)
Topic: “Voir Dire and Closing Argument”

The Mo-Ranch, San Antonio, TX (2000)
Topic: “Voir Dire and Closing Argument”

The Mo-Ranch, San Antonio, TX (2002)
Topic: “Voir Dire and Direct Examination”

Georgia Baptist Conference Center, Toccoa, GA (2003)
Topic: “Voir Dire and Opening Statement”


** Assoc. of Trial Lawyers of America and W.Va. Trial Lawyers Assoc. (co-sponsers), WVU College of Law **
Topic: “Closing the Circle: How to Give a Stunning Summation” (1999)

** Publications **
“Automated Percutaneous Lumbar Diskectomy”, The Advocate, published by the W.Va. Trial Lawyers Association (Fall 1996)

various articles published for W.Va. Trial Lawyers Association in The Advocate. (Fall, 2001, Winter 2001, Spring 2002, Summer 2002)

various articles published in The Parkersburg News, The Charleston Gazette concerning medical malpractice insurance and the profiteering of the insurance industry, written as President of the W.Va. Trial Lawyers Association. (June 2001 - June 2002)

"The Ocean Blues and TLC", The Warrior, published by the Trial Lawyers College, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on how to prepare the case and the client for trial. (Spring 2001), co-author with Mike Strain of Strugis, SD.

Professional Memberships
• Association of Trial Lawyers of America (designated as an Advocate in 1992)
• W.Va. Trial Lawyers Association
• W.Va. State Bar
• Wood County Bar Association