Areas of Experience

Commercial, medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability, condemnation, construction, contracts, corporate disputes, defamation, disability issues, employment, real estate, government issues, intellectual property.

Professional Experience

• Certified Mediator, Supreme Court of Virginia.
• United States Magistrate Judge, Western District of Virginia, 1981-2013.
• Former Principal and Shareholder, Davies, Crigler, Barrell & Will, P.C., Culpeper.
• Adjunct Professor, University of Virginia School of Law, 1986- present.

Affiliations

• Fellow, Virginia Law Foundation.
• Recipient, Virginia State Bar Leadership in Education Award, 2015.
• Member, Litigation Section, Virginia State Bar Board of Governors.
• Vice Chair, Section on Education of Lawyers, Virginia State Bar.
• Founding Chair and Current Faculty Member, Professionalism for Law Students Program, Virginia State Bar.
• Faculty Member, Virginia State Bar Carrico Professionalism Course.
• Member, Commission on Professionalism, Virginia Bar Association.
• Judicial Member, Charlottesville-Albemarle Bar Association.
• Member Emeritus and Founding President, Thomas Jefferson Inn of Court.
• Former Member, United States Magistrate Judges Association Rules Committee.
• Former Member, American Bar Association.
• Former Member, DC Bar Association.
• Former Member, Tennessee Bar Association.
• Past President, Culpeper Bar Association.
• Listed as “Legal Elite” in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Virginia Business, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Education

• University of Tennessee College of Law, J.D.
• Washington & Lee University, B.A.