Focusing on insurance coverage and appellate practice

EDUCATION

• B.A. in social sciences, The Evergreen State College (Olympia, Wash.), 1981
• J.D., West Virginia University College of Law, 1987; graduated first in class; member, Order of the Coif; research editor, West Virginia Law Review; Patrick Duffy Koontz Award

LEGAL EMPLOYMENT

• Member of MacCorkle Lavender Casey & Sweeney, PLLC; May 1, 1999 to present
• Partner with Meyer Darragh Buckler Bebenek & Eck, 1997-April 30, 1999
• Associate, Kesner Kesner & Bramble, 1996-97
• Associate, Meyer Darragh Buckler Bebenek & Eck, 1994-95
• Associate, Mundy & Adkins, 1990-94
• Judicial clerk for the Honorable Charles H. Haden II, Chief Judge, United States District Court, Southern District of West Virginia, 1987-90

LEGAL EXPERIENCE

• Admitted to practice law before all West Virginia courts, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• Practice concentrated in field of insurance coverage, including both commercial and personal lines, casualty, property, and life coverages; insurance bad faith; appellate practice
• More than twenty published decisions by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• Member, West Virginia State Bar; Kanawha County Bar Association; Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia
• Seminar presentations in field of insurance coverage and bad faith law for West Virginia Continuing Legal Education Program and National Business Institute

• Member, since 1999

• 1999

• Insurance Bad Faith
• First-party and Third-party Insurance Coverage
• Casualty, Property and Life Coverage - Personal and Commercial

• 70% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

• West Virginia, 1987
• U.S. District Court Northern District of West Virginia, 1987
• U.S. District Court Southern District of West Virginia, 1987
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 1990

• West Virginia University College of Law, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1987
• J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
• Honors: Order of the Coif
• Honors: Ranked First in Graduating Class
• Honors: Patrick Duffy Koontz Award
• Law Review: Research Editor, West Virginia Law Review
• The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, 1981
• B.A., Bachelor of Arts
• Major: Concentration in Social Sciences

• Westfield Ins. Co. v. Harris, 134 F.3d 608 (4th Cir. 1998)
• Allstate Ins. Co. v. Smith, 504 SE 2d 434 (West Virginia 1998)
• Metropolitan Property and Liability Ins. Co. v. Acord, 195 W.Va. 444, 465 S.E.2d 901 (1995)

• Insurance Coverage in West Virginia, National Business Institute, 1995
• Third - Party Insurance Coverage, National Business Institute, 1996
• Insurance Agent Liability, West Virginia Continuing Legal Education Program, 1997
• Bad Faith Litigation in West Virginia, National Business Institute, 1997
• Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith Law, West Virginia Continuing Legal Education Program
• Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith, National Business Institute

• Kanawha County Bar Association Member
• West Virginia State Bar Member
• Defense Trail Counsel of West Virgina Member

• United States District Court, Southern District of West Virginia, Hon. Charles H. Haden, II, Chief Judge, Judicial Clerk, 1987 - 1990
• Mundy & Adkins, Huntington, West Virginia, Associate, 1990 - 1994
• Meyer, Darragh, Buckler, Bebenek & Eck, Associate, 1994 - 1995
• Kesner, Kesner & Bramble, Associate, 1996 - 1997
• Meyer, Darragh, Buckler, Bebenek & Eck, Partner, 1997 - 1999

• 1956, Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America