Attorneys

Rudolph L. DiTrapano is the managing member of the law firm of DiTrapano Barrett & DiPiero, PLLC. He received a B.S. in Physical Science, and an L.L.B. from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

For over fifty years, Mr. DiTrapano has been involved in active litigation throughout most of the counties in West Virginia, and in other jurisdictions, including Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. He has been involved in and has had significant successes in diverse types of cases, including securities claims, complex commercial and business torts, death claims, defective product injuries, environmental, medical malpractice, as well as many other types of personal injury cases. He also has practiced criminal law, having argued and won a case for a West Virginia legislator before the United States Supreme Court entitled U.S.A v. McCormick. He has participated in cases that have resulted in well over 100 published opinions. Mr. DiTrapano was lead co-counsel for the West Virginia Board of Investments in cases against Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and others recovering for the State of West Virginia a total of $84,974,184. He and other members of the firm represented the West Virginia Bureau of Employment Programs in coal contract litigation that resulted in substantial settlement recovery for the State of West Virginia in excess of $60,000,000.

Mr. DiTrapano is one of only a very few lawyers listed in The Best Lawyers of America in two different categories: personal injury litigation and criminal defense.  Mr. DiTrapano also was selected for inclusion in the 2008 West Virginia Super Lawyers in the category of "personal injury plaintiff." 

Mr. DiTrapano is active in the community, and serves on the Board of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, on the Board of Directors of Wheeling Jesuit University, and is a former Chairman of the State Democratic Party.