Current Employment Position(s): Associate

Areas Of Practice:
Business & Commercial Law
Communications & Media Law
Constitutional Law
Employment Law -- Employee
Environmental Law
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Litigation & Appeals
Personal Injury -- Plaintiff
Professional Malpractice Law
Litigation Percentage:
100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
Bar Admissions:
West Virginia, 1991
U.S. District Court Southern District of West Virginia, 1991
U.S. District Court Northern District of West Virginia, 1999
U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 1996

Education:
Oxford University Faculty of Law, Oxford, England, 1990
B.A., (Hons), Jurisprudence
Honors: With Honors
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, 1987
A.B.

Published Works:
West Virginia's Very Own Celotex Trilogy: A Series of Recent Opinions by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia Reveals that the Rumors of Rule 56's Death Were Greatly Exaggerated, 98 W.Va.L.Rev. 571, 1996

Honors and Awards:
Member, West Virginia Attorney General's Task Force On Rate Reimbursement for Client-Agency Legal Services

Professional Associations and Memberships:
American Bar Association-Member
Association of Trial Lawyers of America-Member

Past Employment Positions:
Chief Justice Thomas E. McHugh and Justice Thomas B. MillerWest Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, Law Clerk, 1990 - 1993
Hon. Charles H. Haden, II, Chief Judge of the United States District Court, Southern District of West Virginia, Law Clerk, 1994 - 1995

Birth Information: August 22, 1965