AREAS OF CONCENTRATION

General Commercial and Energy Litigation

Ms. Proctor has a broad range of experience litigating in a variety of areas, including commercial contracts, mineral rights, property rights, royalty disputes, antitrust, corporate governance, professional malpractice, fraud, defamation, executive compensation disputes and cases involving claims of breach of fiduciary duty.   

Counseling

Ms. Proctor regularly counsels clients regarding ongoing business matters, avoidance of litigation, and compliance with contractual and other obligations.  She has particular experience counseling clients regarding how to deal with ongoing business relationships with companies they oppose in litigation.

Employment Law

Ms. Proctor has extensive experience handling employment discrimination lawsuits, as well as lawsuits with respect to the enforcement of restrictive covenants and severance agreements.  She frequently counsels clients in resolving workplace disputes and in managing employment relationships in a manner designed to prevent litigation.  She has concentrated particularly in the area of covenants not to compete, and has counseled clients in drafting and negotiating employment agreements. 

Appellate Litigation

Ms. Proctor has devoted a significant part of her practice to appellate work, and has successfully represented a variety of clients in both state and federal courts of appeal.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ms. Proctor earned her law degree in 1991 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was a senior editor of the Journal of International Business Law.  She graduated magna cum laude from Marshall University, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the campus daily newspaper, The Parthenon, and was elected to Omicron Delta Kappa, the national leadership honor society.  After graduating from law school, she spent one year as a law clerk to the Honorable Stewart Dalzell of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, assisting the judge in both civil and criminal matters.  Upon finishing her clerkship in 1992, she joined the Philadelphia law firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, where she was a partner from January of 2000 until returning to her native state of West Virginia to join Steptoe & Johnson in August of 2004. 

She now sits on the Boards of Directors of the West Virginia Public Broadcasting Foundation and the TEAM for West Virginia Children.  Locally, she works with Friends of the Parks to advance the interests of the Greater Huntington Park and Recreation District and is active in Create Huntington.  Ms. Proctor has also taught Political Science as an Adjunct professor at Marshall University and been a citizen member of the Editorial Board of the Huntington Herald Dispatch.