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Class of 1973, On the Internet (2 of 2): Scott SegalFROM: The Segal Law Firm: A Legal Corporation"Scott S. Segal concentrates on representing catastrophically injured people in the areas of industrial accidents, personal injury, products liability and asbestos litigation. In 1998 Mr. Segal was inducted into the Inner Circle of Advocates. Membership in the Inner Circle of Advocates is limited to one hundred of the best plaintiffs' trial lawyers in the United States. In 1996 Mr. Segal was asked to become a member of the prestigious American Board of Trial Advocates. Mr. Segal is lead class counsel in the West Virginia fen phen class action suit Burch v. American Home Products. He has also been lead and co-lead counsel for West Virginia's tobacco litigation and in In Re: Asbestos Mass III, a Kanawha County Circuit Court case which resulted in the successful settlement of over 10,000 individual asbestos personal injury cases and in Re: Monongalia Mass II, which resulted in the successful settlement of several thousand more asbestos personal injury cases. Mr. Segal's Supreme court cases include Gentry v. Magnum, 466 S.E. 2d 171 (W.Va. 1995), in which the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals set the standards for admissibility of expert witness opinions and Owens Corning Fiberglass Corporation v. Leonard Adams, et al., No. 92-844 (S.Ct. June 18, 1993), in which the United States Supreme Court let stand over 4.4 million dollars in punitive damages. In 1977, he received his BS from the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont and his JD in 1981 from West Virginia University College of Law in Morgantown, West Virginia. At Law School Mr. Segal was a member of the Moot Court Board, the National Appellate Competition Team and the National Trial Competition Team. He was also awarded Order of the Barristers and the Marlyn E. Lugar Best Advocate award. Mr. Segal has served as a member of the Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Committee to the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia and as a member of the Standing Committee Local Rules of the Southern District of West Virginia. He has taught numerous continuing legal education seminars in the state of West Virginia and throughout the country, in addition to co-authoring a legal scholarly publication in the West Virginia Law Review entitled Workplace Injury Litigation, 95 W. Va. L.Rev. 995 (1993). Mr. Segal and his wife, West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Robin Jean Davis, are the founders of the Segal and Davis Family Foundation, which support charitable causes benefiting children and animals." SOURCE: http://www.segal-law.com/ |
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