• Practice focuses on representing injured and disabled people and retail collections
• Leads two sections of Pender and Coward
• Born Newport News, Virginia; 1949
• Admitted Virginia Bar, 1975

PRACTICE AREAS

• The Disability Law Group
  Directs The Disability Law Group which represents injured and disabled people with claims involving Personal Injury, Social Security Disability, State Workers' Compensation, Virginia Retirement System, and disability insurance plans.
• Dominion Law Associates
  President of the firm's Collection Division, Dominion Law Associates. Dominion employs more than 45 people including attorneys, administrators, managers and paralegals. Dominion represents small and large business including banks, utilities, credit card grantors, debt purchasers, healthcare practices and hospitals.

  Through Dominion Law Associates, Pender and Coward provides local, statewide and nationwide representation to its clients.

EDUCATION

• University of Virginia (B.A., 1972)
  
• T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond (J.D. 1975, Law Review)

LEGAL AFFILIATIONS

• Virginia State Bar
  
• Virginia Trial Lawyers Association
  
• Association of Trial Lawyers of America
  
• National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives
• National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys
• Debt Buyers Association
• Virginia Beach Bar Association