SEGAL LAW - Key Persons
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- Member of the Texas State Bar
Mr. Amos concentrates his practice in the areas of serious personal injury, products liability, medical negligence, nursing home neglect and industrial and mining accidents.
Education
Mr. Amos received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from West Virginia University, graduating Cum Laude. Mr. Amos earned his law degree in 2013 from West Virginia University.
Professional Associations
Mr. Amos is a member of the Texas State Bar, the West Virginia State Bar, and a member of the board of the West Virginia Association for Justice. He is licensed to practice law in the State of West Virginia and Texas. Mr. Amos is also licensed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern and Northern Districts of West Virginia and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Personal
Mr. Amos is a native of Charleston, West Virginia, where he currently resides with his wife and children.
Retired Justice, Robin Jean Davis was born in Boone County, West Virginia, on April 6, 1956. She is married to Scott S. Segal, Esq. and they have one son, Oliver. Robin Davis earned her bachelor's degree from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1978, and her master's degree and law degree from West Virginia University in 1982.
She worked in private practice from 1982 until 1996 at the six-person law firm of Segal and Davis, L.C. where she concentrated her efforts in the field of employee benefits and domestic relations. In 1993, Robin Davis became the first lawyer in West Virginia to be inducted into the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
In 1991, the Supreme Court of Appeals appointed her to the seven-person West Virginia Board of Law Examiners, on which she served until her election to the Supreme Court in 1996. She initially was elected to an unexpired term and was re-elected in November 2000 and November 2012 to full twelve-year terms. Robin Davis was the Supreme Court's designee to the Judiciary's Initiative on Truancy, and in that role she held dozens of public meetings to encourage collaborative community truancy programs.
In 2000, Robin Davis received the Distinguished West Virginian Award from then-Governor Cecil H. Underwood. In 2007 she led the West Virginia delegation to the National Judicial Leadership Summit in New York City, and she was responsible for the Court winning a competitive federal grant to initiate the West Virginia Domestic Violence Registry. In 2008 she received the Graduate of Distinction Award from the West Virginia Education Alliance. Under her guidance, the Supreme Court Administrative Office also received other major grants which have been used to improve the way the court system handles abuse and neglect cases.
Under her leadership as Chief Justice in 2010, the Court approved Revised Rules of Appellate Procedure, which modernized and comprehensively changed the appellate process in West Virginia to provide a decision on the merits in every case. The Court in 2010 also approved new Rules of Juvenile Procedure. In her previous terms as Chief Justice, she initiated a number of programs which proved to be essential to the Court's continuing work with children and families, and that have allowed the Judicial Branch to remain current with the constant changes in technology. These initiatives include the Workers' Compensation Mediation Program; the expansion of parent education programs; Rules on Mass Litigation; the expansion of courtroom technology, including the video initial appearance pilot project; the creation of the West Virginia Trial Court Rules; the establishment of an online Child Abuse and Neglect database; and additions to legal rules governing child abuse and neglect proceedings. In addition, she expanded the Supreme Court's outreach efforts by taking the Court for the first time in recent years to Wheeling and Charles Town, the beginning of what are now regular out-of-Charleston argument dockets and she established the LAWS program for high school students and the Robes to Schools program for all West Virginia school students.
Robin Davis is the author of several West Virginia Law Review articles, including "A Tribute to Franklin D. Cleckley: A Compendium of Essential Legal Principles from his Opinions as a Justice on the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals;" "A Tribute to Thomas E. McHugh: An Encyclopedia of Legal Principles from his Opinions as a Justice on the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals;" and "An Analysis of the Development of Admitting Expert Testimony in Federal Courts and the Impact of that Development on West Virginia Jurisprudence." She is the co-author with Louis J. Palmer, Jr., of "Punitive Damages Law in West Virginia" and "Workers' Compensation Litigation in West Virginia: Assessing the Impact of the Rule of Liberality and the Need for Fiscal Reform." She is the co-author with former Justice Cleckley and Mr. Palmer on four editions of the Litigation Handbook on West Virginia Rules of Civil Procedure, with the most recent version being co-authored by herself and Mr. Palmer. She has given numerous presentations at West Virginia Judicial Association conferences and community forums.
Robin Davis retired from the Supreme Court in August of 2018 after having served as Chief Justice in 1998, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2010, and 2014, and is the only person to have served as Chief Justice six times. She re-joined her husband and The Segal Law Firm in October 2019 and is currently concentrating her practice in appellate issues and complex mass litigation.
Robin Jean Davis concentrates her practice in appellate issues and complex mass litigation.
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Mr. Segal thrives on the practice of law and his arena of choice is the courtroom. He concentrates on representing catastrophically injured people or the estates of those fatally injured due to the negligence of others. Some of the types of cases he handles involve industrial accidents, aviation tragedies, tractor trailer crashes, train wrecks, mining accidents, electrocutions, workplace injuries, and injuries from defective products. Mr. Segal also has a major practice emphasis on class action litigation and complex mass litigation. The types of class and complex cases he has handled includes asbestos litigation, pharmaceuticals, insurance practices, and a wide range of consumer matters.
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Mr. Segal earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Vermont in 1977. He earned his J.D. in 1981 from the West Virginia University College of Law. Mr. Segal excelled in trial and advocacy skills during law school. He was a member of the Moot Court Board, the National Appellate Competition Team and the National Trial Competition Team. He achieved recognition with the award of the prestigious Order of the Barristers and the Marlyn E. Lugar best advocate award. He has been an avid supporter of both the University of Vermont where he received the Alumni of Achievement Award and West Virginia University, where he was honored with the Most Loyal Alumni Mountaineer Award and the Justitia Officium Award, the highest honor bestowed by the law school to its alumni.
Mr. Segal is a member of and involved in numerous professional associations. In 1998, Mr. Segal was inducted into the Inner Circle of Advocates, which has a limited membership of one hundred of the best plaintiffs' trial lawyers in the United States. Some of his other associations include: the American Association for Justice - Leader's Forum, the West Virginia Association for Justice, and a life member of The Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference. He has been ranked as a Preeminent AV lawyer in Martindale-Hubbell for 26 years, ranked as "The Best Lawyers in American" for 20 years and "The National Trial Lawyers' Top 100 Trial Lawyers" for the past 10 years. He teaches continuing legal education seminars regularly in West Virginia and throughout the country.
Scott S. Segal thrives on the practice of law and his arena of choice is the courtroom. He concentrates on representing catastrophically injured people or the estates of those killed due to the negligence of others.