Trial work rewards focus. This firm concentrates on three practices — personal injury and wrongful death, civil rights, and criminal defense — because that's what we take in front of juries.
The Three Practices
Wrecks, dangerous property, and preventable deaths across WV and OH. We make the careless pay full freight.
Section 1983 litigation against police departments, jails, and the governments that run them. Hard cases, in federal court, on purpose.
Defense in West Virginia and Ohio courts from a lawyer prosecutors know will pick a jury.
A firm that takes everything tries nothing. Settlement-mill economics depend on volume: sign cases by the hundred, settle them at a discount, and never let a jury see one. Insurance carriers price their offers accordingly — they know which letterheads mean trial and which mean paperwork.
We built the opposite practice. A deliberately small docket, three practice areas, and a standing rule that every case is worked up as if it will be tried. When the other side checks the docket sheets — and they do — they find jury verdicts, not just demand letters. That reputation is the quiet asset behind every settlement this firm negotiates.
