Steptoe & Johnson

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

• Represented major Class I railroad in a variety of alleged occupational and personal injuries
• Served as trial counsel for real estate and insurance brokers
• Defended railroad at trial accused of negligently causing neurotoxic brain injury, various types of cancer and lower and upper extremity orthopedic injuries
• Represented a transportation company at trial accused of intentionally inflicting emotional distress and invading privacy by conducting surveillance of employee claiming permanent injury
• Prosecuted multiple Daubert challenges to exclude medical expert testimony relating to chronic toxic encephalopathy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 2011
  Steptoe & Johnson
• 2010-2011
  Setliff, Turner & Holland
• 2000-2010
  Huddleston Bolen LLP

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS / AWARDS

• Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia
• Defense Research Institute
• Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2009, 2010, 2011
• The State Journal, Generation Next, 40 Under 40 (2009)

INDUSTRY / CIVIC MEMBERSHIPS

• Member, Kanawha County Republican Executive Committee
• Certified Official, USA Hockey
• Referree in Chief, Charleston Amateur Hockey Association
• Former Member Executive Board, Buckskin Council BSA
• Former Chairman, Mt. Rifle District BSA

PUBLICATIONS / SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• Use of Exhibits at Trial, Trial Academy, DTCWV, 2008
• Insurance Coverage in West Virginia, NBI, 2006