• Practice focuses on General Civil and Business Litigation
• Born Norfolk, Virginia, 1954
• Admitted Virginia Bar, 1980

PRACTICE AREAS

• General Civil and Business Litigation
• Eminent Domain
• Federal Tort Claims
• Mediation (with particular emphasis on medical malpractice mediation)

EDUCATION

• Randolph-Macon College (B.A. 1976)
• T. C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond (J.D. 1980)

EXPERIENCE

• Over 20 years experience in private law practice before federal and state courts
• 5 years as a Virginia Assistant Attorney General (recipient of the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Awards and Meritorious Service Awards in 1987)
• 14 years experience as special counsel appointed and reappointed by Virginia Attorneys General to represent state health care providers in medical malpractice litigation and state constitutional officers in civil rights litigation

COURT ADMISSIONS

• Supreme Court of the United States
• Supreme Court of Virginia
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia
• All Virginia Circuit and General District Courts

LEGAL AFFILIATIONS

• Virginia State Bar
• Virginia Bar Association