Areas of Experience

Medical malpractice, personal injury, premises liability, products liability, commercial disputes, contracts, and defamation.

Professional Experience

• Former Managing Partner, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Roanoke.
  • Extensive trial experience spanning 45 years, with close to 150 cases litigated to verdict in Virginia and West Virginia.

Affiliations

• Past President, Ted Dalton American Inn of Court.
• Member, Order of the Coif.
• Member, Boyd-Graves Conference, Virginia Bar Association.
• Fellow, Roanoke Law Foundation.
• Former Member, Virginia Bar Association Judiciary Committee.
• Former Member, American Board of Trial Advocates.
• Member, Virginia State Bar; Virginia Bar Association; and Roanoke Bar Association.
• Member, Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s Class of 2025 “Lawyers Hall of Fame.”
• Recognized as a “Leader in Law,” Virginia Lawyers Weekly, 2016.
• Selected to Best Lawyers in America (Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants; Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants.).
• Judicial Clerkship, Honorable John A. Field, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
• Former President of Mill Mountain Theater, Opera Roanoke, and Southwestern Virginia Historical Society.

Education

• Washington & Lee University, J.D.
• Concord University, B.S.