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Mr. McGinley is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer.  He represents clients in personal injury cases, commercial and business litigation, and class actions.

Mr. McGinley was raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, and understands West Virginia's working families:  his father as a young man worked in steel mills, his grandfather worked in the oil industry.  His family also includes coal miners, firefighters and teachers.  Mr. McGinley attended college at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, receiving an A.B. degree in 1987.  He was accepted into Oxford University (Keble College) in Oxford, England, where he studied law and obtained an honours degree in Jurisprudence. After obtaining his law degree at Oxford, he returned home to West Virginia where he worked at the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia as a judicial law clerk, from 1990 through 1993.  At the Supreme Court, Mr. McGinley clerked both for Chief Justice Thomas E. McHugh, and Justice Thomas B. Miller.  From 1994 through 1995, Mr. McGinley was a law clerk to the Hon. Charles H. Haden, II, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.  He has been with the firm since October of 1995.

Mr. McGinley has considerable trial and litigation experience, including:

• wrongful death and personal injury cases where he has represented the families of coal miners, loggers and other victims of industrial acidents;

• medical malpractice, where he has represented the families and victims of malpractice, including representation of the victims of the notorious Dr. John King;  

• complex class actions in West Virginia, including (1) successful class actions for consumers against against computer giant Microsoft, (2) on behalf of stockholders who sued to recover losses in the Keystone Bank collapse, and (3) for natural gas leaseholders who sued a large gas company for upaid royalties.  

In addition, Mr. McGinley has successfully prosecuted many appeals to the Supreme Court of West Virginia where the Supreme Court has on a number of occassions agreed with and found persuasive his arguments on complex or new issues of law.  

Mr. McGinley has been a member of the Governing Council of the West Virginia Law Institute since 2001.  He is a member of the American Bar Association and the American Association for Justice. He also is a member of both the West Virginia and Kanawha County Bar Associations. Mr. McGinley has lectured media organizations on First Amendment and defamation issues.

Mr. McGinley and his wife, Ana G. Marino, have two sons, Liam Patrick McGinley, and Colin Sean McGinley.  They reside in Charleston.