"Few catastrophic injuries are the result of fate. Law, engineering, science and medicine are the tools with which we stop the irresponsible."

Scott S. Segal

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.

You can e-mail Mr. Segal at scott.segal@segal-law.com .

"Injured workers and the citizens of this state all too often are taken advantage of by large corporations and insurance companies. All injured people deserve the most aggressive legal representation against these large companies to insure that their rights are protected to the fullest extent of the law."

Mark R. Staun

Mark R. Staun has concentrated his practice over the past twelve years in the area of catastrophic personal injury litigation with an emphasis on industrial and mining accidents, medical negligence, aviation accidents and product liability. He has also been involved in numerous cases in both State and Federal Courts and before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals involving insurance coverage litigation. Mr. Staun's successful jury trials and settlements have involved claims against coal operators and company owners in commercial and workplace injury litigation, insurance companies, automobile manufacturers, and physicians and hospitals in medical negligence cases.

Mr. Staun has taught numerous Continuing Legal Education seminars and has co-authored a legal scholarly publication in the West Virginia Law Review entitled Workplace Injury Litigation, 95 W.Va. L. Rev. 995 (1993). His cases before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals include the most recent case of Graham v. Wallace, 538 S.E.2d 730, (W.Va. 2000), , Erie Insurance, Property and Casualty Co. v. Pioneer Home Improvement, Inc., 526 S.E.2d 28 (W.Va.1999), Hamric v. Doe, 499 S.E.2d 619 (W.Va. 1997); Grayam v. Department of Health and Human Resources, 498 S.E.2d 12 (W.Va. 1997); Trent v. Cook, 482 S.E.2d 218 (W.Va. 1996); and Gentry v. Mangum, 466 S.E.2d 171 (W.Va. 1995).

Mr. Staun received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, Cum Laude, from the West Virginia University College of Business and Economics and his law degree from the West Virginia University College of Law. He is a member of the American Bar Association, West Virginia State Bar, The Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and the West Virginia Trial Lawyers.

You can e-mail Mr. Staun at mark.staun@segal-law.com

"Growing up in Southern West Virginia, I realize the severity of the problems which drastically change the lives of our states' citizens after falling victim to the negligence of others. It is my goal to level the playing the field against large companies and insurance carriers for hard working West Virginians as they struggle through these most difficult times."

Samuel A. Hrko

Mr. Hrko previously served a two year appointment as Law Clerk to the Honorable W. Craig Broadwater, United States District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia. While working under Judge Broadwater, Mr. Hrko participated in numerous matters in both civil and criminal areas of law. Also, he was the primary author of the decisions in the following cases: McCune v. Xerox Corp., 55 F.Supp.2d 510 (N.D.W.Va. 1999), The Frederick Bus. Properties Co. v. United States, 55 F.Supp.2d 524 (N.D.W.Va. 1999), Del Giorno v. Gateway Regional Health Systems, Inc., 64 F.Supp.2d 604(N.D.W.Va. 1999), AmTote Intern. Inc. v. PNGI Charles Town Gaming Ltd. Liability Co., 66 F.Supp.2d 782 (N.D.W.Va. 1999)

Mr. Hrko is licensed to practice in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia , the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia , and the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia. He is a member of the West Virginia State Bar, American Bar Association, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, and the Kanawha County Bar Association.

You can e-mail Mr. Hrko at samuel.hrko@segal-law.com

"I believe in the law and its power and capacity for justice. The law is not just for the powerful and large companies. I am dedicated to the principle espoused by the jurist Learned Hand that 'if we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shall not ration justice.'"

Deborah L. McHenry

Ms. McHenry most recently served as the Counsel to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. She developed the Office of Counsel and implemented the Court's newest case management, review and presentation process. For a time, Ms. McHenry served in the dual capacity of Counsel and Clerk of the Court.

Ms. McHenry was previously a Managing Deputy Attorney General where she had responsibility for consumer protection, civil rights, and antitrust litigation. She had primary responsibility for conducting the in-house portion of the State's tobacco litigation which resulted in the recovery of millions of dollars of State taxpayer funds spent to treat people with tobacco-related disease and illness. Ms. McHenry was also involved in litigating several fraudulent telemarketing and mail order schemes targeted at elderly and poor citizens which resulted in the return to individuals of millions of dollars in cash and the cancellation of debt. Ms. McHenry successfully handled and negotiated a settlement of an antitrust case against the providers of milk to county school systems that resulted in thousands of dollars to several counties.

She serves on the West Virginia Supreme Court's Gender Fairness Task Force and was the Co-project Editor for the publication: Women and the Law: Am Legal Rights Handbook (1994). Published cases include: West Virginia Trust Fund, Inc., v. Bailey, 485 S.E.2d 407 (W.Va. 1997); State v. Williams, 474 S.E.2d 569 (W.Va. 1996); Women's Health Center of West Virginia, Inc. v. Panepinto, 446 S.E.2d 658 (W.Va. 1993); Eggleston v. W.Va. Dept. of Highways, 429 S.E.2d 636 (W.Va. 1993); Fisher v. City of Charleston, 425 S.E.2d 194 (W.Va. 1992)

You can email Ms. McHenry at deborah.mchenry@segal-law.com

“In every case we take, there’s a story that somebody, most likely a large corporation, doesn’t want told. It’s our job to tell that story.

Victor S. Woods

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Woods was Assistant Attorney General for the State of West Virginia, where he was involved in a number of high-profile criminal and civil cases, including the State’s litigation against the tobacco industry. He also served as law clerk to the Honorable Warren R. McGraw, Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Mr. Woods is admitted to practice law in all state and federal courts in West Virginia, and is a member of the of the West Virginia State Bar, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and the West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association.

You can email Mr. Woods at victor.woods@segal-law.com