Steptoe & Johnson

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

• Directed docket of 90 brain damage cases in West Virginia for national railroad company
• Represented a Class 1 railroad in multi-state trials involving allegations of chemical-induced illnesses including brain damage and cancer
• Defended national railroad company in numerous cases involving allegations that railroad working conditions and procedures caused osteoarthritis in the knees of its employees
• National coordinating counsel for Class 1 railroad for various types of occupational injury cases brought against it pursuant to the Federal Employers' Liability Act

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 2011
  Steptoe & Johnson
• 2010-2011
  Setliff Turner & Holland
• 1989-2009
  Huddleston Bolen, LLP

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS / AWARDS

• The Best Lawyers in America®
• Peer Review Rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell
• Super Lawyers®
• West Virginia's Top Lawyers, The State Journal, 2010
• Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia
• Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference
• Defense Research Institute
• Executive Committee Member, National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel

INDUSTRY / CIVIC MEMBERSHIPS

• Chair, Transportation Committee, Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce
• KYOVA Interstate Planning Commission
• "On Gossamer Wings," DRI publication article on Daubert effort

PUBLICATIONS / SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• Speaker and program coordinator at numerous NARTC and other railroad-sponsored meetings over the past 15 years on topics such as toxic torts and trial techniques.