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Jamie, a Wheeling, West Virginia native, became an attorney with the firm in 2000. Jamie had previously assisted the attorneys at the firm while he was in high school and during the summers while he was in college and law school. In 2002, he was named a partner in the firm.. Since joining the firm, Jamie has represented numerous individuals in cases involving automobile accidents. He has represented clients in Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, Brooke, and Monongalia Counties in West Virginia. He also maintains an active practice in the state of Ohio, having represented individuals in Belmont, Jefferson, Harrison, Guernsey, Huron, Cuyahoga, Geauga, and Stark Counties in Ohio. Jamie also regularly practices in front of the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia.. Another major focus of Jamie's practice is cases involving insurance misconduct. He has represented individuals in cases against numerous major insurance companies, including State Farm, Allstate, Nationwide, Travelers, Westfield, Erie, The Hartford, and Encompass. He believes strongly in fighting for the rights of individuals throughout West Virginia and Ohio that have been mistreated by major corporations. He has obtained many settlements for his clients in this area of the law.. Jamie has also been active in many of the firm's complex cases. He has been involved with and litigated medical malpractice cases. He has represented families in wrongful death cases. Jamie has handled professional negligence cases in diverse areas such as medicine, nursing, insurance agency, and photography. He has also represented workers who have been wrongfully discharged from their employment. Jamie has been active in cases involving defective products, such as recreational equipment for children, power tools, and automobiles that have resulted in injuries to consumers. He has represented individuals who have been attacked and injured by both other individuals and vicious animals. He has also represented individuals who have been the target of unfair debt collection practices.. In 2003, Jamie was selected to serve on the Board of Governors of the West Virginia Association for Justice and continues to act in that capacity. He is also a member of the West Virginia State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, the Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers, and Trial Lawyers for Public Justice. He is currently licensed to practice before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, the Ohio Supreme Court, and the United States District Courts for the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia and Southern Districts of West Virginia.. Jamie is a Cum Laude graduate of theNotre Dame Law School. While attending Notre Dame Law School, Jamie received the Dean's award for being the outstanding student in complex criminal litigation. Prior to his final year of law school, he served as a legal intern with the Public Defender's office for the First Judicial Circuit of West Virginia in 1999. In the summer of 1998, Jamie spent the summer abroad, studying law in London, England through courses being taught by British law professors.. Jamie also received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1997. While completing his undergraduate studies he was the Sports Editor of The Dome, the University of Notre Dame yearbook, from 1994 to 1997. In that capacity, Jamie was responsible for the publication of 54 pages each year. Jamie's work included covering the Notre Dame football team each season and was capped off with a tribute to Lou Holtz in his final season at Notre Dame. Jamie also served as a head interhall football coach at the University of Notre Dame from 1995 to 1999. Jamie's teams made the playoffs in each of his five seasons as head coach and he twice took his teams to the title game. He was featured in an NFL Films Segment on interhall football at Notre Dame in a program that aired on ESPN and ESPN2 in January 2000.. Jamie is a 1993 graduate of Wheeling Park High School. While attending Wheeling Park, he was elected by the student body to serve as President of the student council. Jamie was also the starting quarterback and captain of the Patriot football team. He was a National Merit Finalist in 1993 and was also chosen as a member of the National Honor Society.. Jamie married the former Stacy Contraguerro of Wheeling in May 2004. He is the son of the two named senior partners of the firm, Jim and Linda Bordas. Jamie also has a younger brother named Ben (Boody).

If you have been the victim of a personal injury accident, you should seek the assistance of a reliable West Virginia personal injury attorney from Fitzsimmons Law Firm. Attorney Robert P. Fitzsimmons graduated from the University of Baltimore School of Law, where he received his Juris Doctorate. Attorney Robert J. Fitzsimmons went to Wake Forest University School of Law, where he earned his Juris Doctorate. Attorney Clayton Fitzsimmons went to the University of Notre Dame Law School, where he received his Juris Doctorate.  Attorney Brent Wear earned his Juris Doctorate from West Virginia University College of Law. The law firm has associations with the West Virginia Bar Association, the Ohio County Bar Association, and the United States District Courts for West Virginia’s Northern and Southern Districts. With the experience and education of the attorneys at the firm, you can know that you are in reliable hands. Contact a West Virginia personal injury lawyer from the office today.

I have been an insurance defense attorney for the majority of my time as a lawyer. Most recently, I worked for nine years at a large insurance company defending its policyholders in auto accicent, slip & fall, homeowner's, and general commercial liability cases. I am now accepting all types of personal injury cases on the plaintiff's side. If you have been injured, I would like to help.. I am also accepting family law cases, including divorce, shared parenting issues, child support issues, domestic violence, and other domestic matters.. I have been a litigator for the majority of my time as an attorney. I am available to discuss any general litigation needs, as well as other general practice work.. I am licensed in all state and federal courts in Ohio and West Virginia. I primarily practice now in the northern panhandle or West Virginia and surrounding area. In the past, I handled cases throughout all of northern West Virginia down to Parkersburg and over to Clarksburg.. Give me a call or send me an email. I look forward to helping you.

Holly has spent her entire legal career at Herndon, Morton, Herndon & Yaeger where she became partner in 1999. Her practice is focused on a wide range of corporate and commercial litigation with a focus in banking and financial services, media and communications, employment from the employer’s perspective and creditors’ rights in bankruptcy matters. Holly represents large and small businesses in the banking, publishing, broadcasting, real estate development, energy and health care fields and in numerous service industries. On behalf of her clients, Holly has both pursued and defended numerous lawsuits and other claims and has appeared in state and federal courts, and before administrative tribunals, the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other state and federal agencies. She provides counsel to clients on the day-to-day operation of their businesses including contract negotiations, regulatory compliance, and employment issues.

Clayton has served as co-counsel in cases successfully tried to verdict including a $13.2 million jury verdict obtained on behalf of the family of a 16 year old girl killed in a motorcycle accident. The jury found that the acts of the defendants were reckless and willful and assessed $5 million in punitive damages as part of the verdict. He also served as co-counsel in a landmark $27 million settlement obtained for the family of a boilermaker killed in a construction fire which occurred during the manufacturing of fiberglass liners inside a concrete stack at a utility plant. The case was settled after Plaintiffs' opening statements and is believed to be one of the largest wrongful death settlements in West Virginia.

Chris Regan's practice focuses on complex litigation, trial work and appeal. Chris has obtained substantial jury verdicts, including multi-million dollar results, in cases of workplace injury, insurance bad faith, trucking wrecks, negligence, wrongful death, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse and professional negligence. Several of his jury trials have resulted in awards of punitive damages against the defendants.. Chris also maintains a significant appellate practice, handling cases in the Supreme Court of the United States of America, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court of Ohio, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania as well as the appellate courts of Ohio. Chris is also involved in the firm's toxic tort, class action and consumer fraud practice areas, including cases like Citifinancial v. Lightner and Robinson v. Columbian Chemicals. A path-breaking class action appeal, in Citifinancial v. Lightner, argued by Chris in 2008, paved the way for state court consumers to use their own state courts for class action counterclaims when they are sued by debt collectors.. Notable verdicts in Chris' cases cases include Timmons v. American Electric Power, (2011, approximately $7,000, plus attorney's fees), McLaughlin v. Ohio Power Company, (2011, $5,710,, plus attorney's fees), Karpacs v. Murthy (2008, $4,000,) and Boggs v. Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital (2006, $6,545,), all tried with Geoff Brown, as well as Meredith v. Heartland of Clarksburg (2002, $50,000,), tried with Jim Bordas. The Boggs award was later increased by approximately $1,400, through an award of litigation sanctions against Camden-Clark Hospital. In 2009, in Brooke County West Virginia, Chris, Geoff Brown and Jamie Bordas selected a jury in the case of Haught v. Weirton Medical Center, and following jury selection, Weirton Medical Center elected to confess judgment in open court for $2,060, rather than face trial. Crystal Rogerson and David Haught, the clients in that case, later received the Advocate for Justice Award for their determination to obtain a public settlement from the hospital.. Chris has also argued frequently before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in cases such as State ex rel. Richmond American Homes v. Sanders, State ex rel. Allstate v. Madden, Boggs v. Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital and State ex rel. Erie Property and Casualty Co. v. Mazzone. Chris has also authored amicus curiae briefs for the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on behalf of consumer protection organizations in Riggs v. WVU Hospital, Brown v. Genesis Health Care and MacDonald v. City Hospital. The Brown case, decided in 2011, allowed victims of nursing home abuse to retain their jury trial rights in the face of industry attempts to force victims into secret arbitration. The WVAJ was favorably cited in the opinion of the Court.. One of Chris' cases involving much more than any monetary award was resolved in 2004: Mary Jo Stefanakis v. Office of Personnel Management resulted in an order that the federal government reconsider its decision to deny a life-saving allogeneic bone marrow transplant to a Pittsburgh woman. Chris represented Mrs. Stefanakis and her husband at the preliminary injunction hearing that resulted in a Good Friday decision by the Judge that her insurance company should pay or appear in court again to show why it shouldn't. Mrs. Stefanakis, who had been given six months to live without the transplant, subsequently received a successful transplant and lived four more years with her husband, children and grandchildren.. Chris has also been selected to speak at the popular West Virginia Bar Association's "Litigation" seminar, held annually in Davis, West Virginia and asked to speak at the WVAJ's biannual seminars and other continuing legal education conferences. Chris currently serves on the Board of Directors of the West Virginia Association for Justice, and as a Regional Chair of that organization, as Co-Chair of the amicus curiae committee and the brief bank committee.

Brent Wear joined Fitzsimmons Law Firm PLLC in 2004. Brent concentrates his practice in the areas of personal injury and wrongful death with an emphasis on medical malpractice, birth injuries, nursing home negligence, toxic and chemical exposure, mesothelioma, insurance bad faith, consumer protection, workplace injuries, oil and gas disputes, motor vehicle accidents and premises liability.

As a sole practitioner, Mr. Gerney represents personal injury plaintiffs, unemployed workers, and victims of legal malpractice in both Pennsylvania and Ohio.  Mr. Gerney also represents Social Security disability applicants in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio.. Russell Gerney began his legal career in 2001 as a law clerk for a small firm in Pittsburgh, PA.  He graduated from the Duquesne University School of Law in June 2003 and was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in October 2003.. After relocating to Toledo Ohio in 2005, Mr. Gerney began working for a large plaintiff oriented firm.  After almost five years with that firm, Mr. Gerney began his own practice on April 25, 2010.. Mr. Gerney is licensed to practice in several federal courts including the Supreme Court of the United States.  He has been published in the Duquesne Law Review and Ohio Trial.  Mr. Gerney has also taught several seminars on Social Security disability claims.  His article Equal Protection Under the Pennsylvania Constitution, has been cited by the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania who referred to the article as “an excellent history of the changing constitutional sources for ‘equal protection’ under the Pennsylvania Constitution.”