Our Lawyers
Former federal prosecutors and law clerks.
Hundreds of trials to verdict.
A depth of experience that few firms can match.
Mike Carey is a former Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States and United States Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia. He graduated first in his class from the West Virginia University College of Law and was named the Charleston Gazette’s 1989 West Virginian of the Year for his work battling public corruption.
Jack Kessler, a former federal prosecutor and chief of a federal Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, has tried more than 100 cases to verdict.
Steve Ruby is a former federal prosecutor and chief of white-collar prosecutions. He secured the country’s first-ever conviction of a major-company CEO for workplace-safety crimes.
David Pogue is an honors graduate of West Virginia University and an experienced litigator in areas ranging from complex commercial disputes to insurance coverage to oil and gas law to constitutional matters.
Ray Franks is a former law clerk to two judges of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and a justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. He is a noted legal writer and has successfully argued before West Virginia’s high court.
Jordan L. Damron is a graduate of the West Virginia University College of Law and former Senior Staff member to West Virginia Governor Jim Justice, providing key legal, communications, legislative, and policy counsel during his tenure.
In Memoriam
Bob Douglas, a lion of the bar for more than half a century, was both a trusted counselor to major corporations and a successful representative of class-action plaintiffs.