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Charleston, West Virginia 25301
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Marv Masters
Marven Massters
Marvin Master
Kris Brinkley
Christofer Brinkley
Kristopher Brinkley
Chris Brickley
April Ferebey
April Fereebey
April Don Ferrebee
Charles Luv
Chuck Love
Charley Loves
Rich Monahan
Dick Monahan
Richard Moynahan
Richard Mahoney
Rob Welsh
Bob Welsh
Robert Weltch
Dave White
David Wite
Serving Charleston, West Virginia – Our Personal Injury Attorneys Can Help
The personal injury attorneys at The Masters Law Firm are committed to helping victims who have been hurt as a result of another party's negligent and careless actions. Our attorneys have extensive experience with personal injury litigation, and are unwavering in their dedication to the client. If you or a loved one has suffered a serious injury, you can rely on the guidance and legal counsel of our Charleston, West Virginia personal injury attorneys. Please read through our attorney biographies below, or take a look at our verdicts and settlements to see what the attorneys at The Masters Law Firm can do for you. To schedule a free consultation, contact our personal injury lawyers today.
- Marvin W. Masters
- Christopher L. Brinkley
- Kelly Elswick-Hall
- Charles M. Love IV
- Richard A. Monahan
- Robert P. Welsh
- April D. Ferrebee
Marvin W. Masters
Professional Memberships & Achievements: Marvin W. Masters is a member of the American Bar Association, West Virginia State Bar, West Virginia Association for Justice (past president), American Association for Justice, The American College of Trial Lawyers, and International Society of Primerus Law Firms. Mr. Masters has been selected for (1) “Best Lawyers in America®” for over 10 years; (2) “Super Lawyers”; and (3) “Million Dollar Advocates.” He has tried over 100 cases to jury and received multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements in various jurisdictions. He is experienced in litigating serious personal injury, death, coal mining and property damage cases, as well as commercial, fraud and product liability cases, including drug litigation
Jurisdictions Attorney is Licensed in: West Virginia Supreme Court and all lower courts; United States Supreme Court; United States Court of Appeals - Fourth Circuit; and United States District Court for the Southern and Northern Districts of West Virginia
Colleges Attended, Degree & Year Graduated: West Virginia University, J.D., 1972; West Virginia University, B.S. Civil Engineering, 1967
Date Admitted to the Bar: 1972, West Virginia
Christopher L. Brinkley
Professional Memberships & Achievements: Christopher L. Brinkley practices in the areas of product liability, personal injury, workplace injury, automobile collisions, property damage, premises liability, oil and gas leases, business torts, the enforcement of foreign judgments, and consumer class actions. Over the last sixteen years, Mr. Brinkley has focused his practice on product liability cases, including numerous automobile defects (vehicle stability and rollovers; lack of electronic stability control; improper structural welding; various metallurgical failures; insufficient structural crashworthiness; seatbelt failures including false latch, partial latch, inertial release, spoolout, poor belt geometry, broken buckles, and broken belts; failure of airbags to deploy; lack of safety glass in side windows; occupant ejections; other aspects of inadequate occupant protection; improper placement of parking brake pedals; tire tread separations; fuel fed, ignition switch, and other vehicle fires; steering system failures; sudden accelerations; lack of a brake-shift or neutral-shift interlocks; park-to-reverse or false park situations; seatback collapses; engine design; towing stability; and brake failures); medical products (surgical staplers; knee and hip replacement implants; spinal implants; infusion pumps; and insulin pumps); forklifts (stand-up forklifts and off-road forklifts); pharmaceuticals; bucket trucks; fire extinguishers; clothing flammability; firearms; mining equipment; diving equipment; kerosene heaters; and motorcycles.
Mr. Brinkley received his Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Oklahoma where he was on the Dean’s List. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Tulsa – College of Law where he was a member of the Phi Delta Phi legal honors fraternity, recipient of the Zarrow Family Award for excellence in Oil and Gas Law, a founding editor of the Tulsa Journal of Comparative and International Law, and author of “The Final Frontier: a Voyage Requiring a World Enterprise.”
Mr. Brinkley is admitted to all state courts in West Virginia, Missouri, Georgia, and Arkansas, as well as the United States Circuit Courts of Appeal for the Fourth and Fifth Circuits and seven United States District Courts in West Virginia, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. He has also been admitted pro hac vice in numerous other state and federal courts.
Mr. Brinkley is a member of the West Virginia and Georgia Trial Lawyers Associations, as well as the American Association for Justice. As a member of the American Association for Justice, Mr. Brinkley has served as Chairman of two separate product liability litigation groups, each time serving as Chairman for approximately seven years. He is also a member of the West Virginia, Missouri, Georgia, and Arkansas Bar Associations. Mr. Brinkley is a frequent author and lecturer on the topics of working with engineers in product liability litigation, admissibility of expert and other evidence, discovery, various specific product defects, litigation strategies, and other topics.
Jurisdictions Attorney is Licensed in: West Virginia Supreme Court and all lower courts; Missouri; Georgia; Georgia Court of Appeals; Georgia Supreme Court; Arkansas; United States Court of Appeals – Fourth Circuit; United States Court of Appeals – Fifth Circuit; United States District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia; United States District Courts for the Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia; United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma; United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas
Date Admitted to the Bar: 2003, West Virginia; 2002, Missouri; 1999 Georgia; and 1995, Arkansas
Colleges Attended, Degree & Year Graduated: University of Tulsa, J.D., 1994; University of Oklahoma, B.S. Aerospace Engineering, 1990
Kelly Elswick-Hall
Professional Memberships & Achievements: Since graduating from law school in 1994, she has enjoyed success representing injured workers and the disabled in personal injury cases, chemical and toxic exposure cases, head injury cases, deliberate intent cases, products liability litigation, automobile crash injury cases, medical negligence cases, and Workers’ Compensation and Social Security Disability claims. Her experience also includes complex family law litigation. Her wide range of experience in several areas of the law gives her a unique knowledge base among lawyers.
She is a member of the West Virginia Association for Justice and serves as a member of the WVAJ Governing Board. She serves on the West Virginia State Bar Committee on Workers’ Compensation, the West Virginia State Bar Committee on Social Security, and the West Virginia State Bar Committee on Law and Medicine. She served as secretary of the West Virginia Workplace Injury Litigation Group and as a member of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives.
In 2009, she received a President’s Award from the West Virginia Association for Justice in recognition of her commitment to protecting the rights of West Virginia workers and their families. In 1997 and 1998, she received awards from the Legal Aid Society of Charleston, for providing free legal work to low income clients.
She has lectured in continuing legal education seminars in the areas of workplace injuries and has provided, free of charge, educational presentations to physicians in West Virginia in the same areas. She volunteers her time lobbying at the state level to advocate for the rights of the injured and disabled. She has participated and assisted in drafting various legislation over the past decade and provided her knowledge to various elected representatives and government agencies when called upon. She has successfully represented a disabled state trooper in an appeal to the West Virginia Supreme Court, pro bono. In addition, she served as a volunteer for the Law Explorers, which teaches high school students in various counties about the law and careers within it.
She has reported decisions in the West Virginia Supreme Court and federal court in the areas of civil, Workers’ Compensation and other Administrative appeals.
She attended undergraduate college at Marshall University majoring in psychology, and was president of the honor society in her department. She graduated in 1991. She worked for a local mental health organization before attending law school, working directly with disabled individuals. She also served as an undergraduate research assistant.
Jurisdictions Attorney is Licensed in: West Virginia Supreme Court and all lower courts; United States Court of Appeals - Fourth Circuit; and United States District Court for the Southern and Northern Districts of West Virginia
Date Admitted to the Bar: 1994, West Virginia
Colleges Attended, Degree & Year Graduated: University of Dayton, J.D., 1994; Marshall University, Psychology, B.S., 1991
Charles M. Love IV
Professional Memberships & Achievements: Charles M. Love, IV, earned a Juris Doctorate from the West Virginia University College of Law in 1997. While at the College of Law he was a member of the Luger Trial Association. In 1993, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and French, cum laude, from Denison University.
Mr. Love has been a member of The Masters Law Firm since 1997. He has extensive trial experience and focuses his practice in the areas of nursing home abuse and neglect, product liability, injuries in the workplace, commercial truck accidents, medical malpractice, wrongful termination, and premises liability. Mr. Love is also a certified contract advisor with the National Football League Players Association and is licensed as an Athletic Agent with the State of West Virginia.
A member of the West Virginia State Bar, Mr. Love is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court for the United States of America, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and Eighth Circuit and in the United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia.
Mr. Love has been recognized as a “Super Lawyer” in the area of general plaintiffs litigation by Super Lawyers Magazine. He is a member of the West Virginia Bar Association and the West Virginia Association for Justice. Mr. Love was elected to serve as one of the Kanawha County representatives to the Board of Governors for the West Virginia Bar Association. He is currently a member of the West Virginia Law Institute. Mr. Love has also served various charitable organizations in the Charleston, West Virginia area and has been a youth soccer league coach for many years.
Jurisdictions Attorney is Licensed in: West Virginia Supreme Court and all lower courts; United States Supreme Court; United States Court of Appeals - Fourth Circuit; and United States District Court for the Southern and Northern Districts of West Virginia
Date Admitted to the Bar: 1997, West Virginia
Colleges Attended, Degree & Year Graduated: West Virginia University, J.D., 1997; Denison University, B.A., Economics and French, 1993
Richard A. Monahan
Professional Memberships & Achievements: West Virginia State Bar; and West Virginia Association for Justice
Jurisdictions Attorney is Licensed in: West Virginia Supreme Court and all lower courts; United States Supreme Court; United States Court of Appeals - Eighth Circuit; United States District Court for the Southern and Northern Districts of West Virginia; United States District Court for the District of Minnesota; and Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Date Admitted to the Bar: 1994, West Virginia; 1991 Pennsylvania
Colleges Attended, Degree & Year Graduated: University of Pittsburgh School of Law, J.D., 1990; Juniata College in Huntingdon, PA, B.A. Cum Laude, 1987
Robert P. Welsh
Professional Memberships & Achievements: Robert P. Welsh is a member of the West Virginia State Bar and West Virginia Association for Justice. In 1986, he was inducted into Alpha Sigma Nu (the international Jesuit University honor society equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa); and, in 1982, he was presented with Phoenix Award by American Heart Association for successful out-of-hospital resuscitation of cardiac arrest victim.
Mr. Welsh has 10 years of providing emergency care to patients in the pre-hospital and Emergency/Trauma Department setting as a Nationally Registered Paramedic. He has almost 20 years of experience in litigating all types of medical negligence cases resulting in serious injury or death, with over 40 cases tried to verdict.
Mr. Welsh received for his client a jury verdict in Pikeville, Kentucky, in the amount of $4.3 million for urological malpractice. He also settled a medical malpractice case for $1.42 million where there was a 12-hour delay in diagnosis of compartment syndrome of the client’s lower leg.
Jurisdictions Attorney is Licensed in: West Virginia Supreme Court and all lower courts; Pennsylvania Superior Court; Pennsylvania Supreme Court; United States Court of Appeals - Fourth Circuit; United States District Court for the Southern and Northern Districts of West Virginia; and United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Pennsylvania
Date Admitted to the Bar: 1994, West Virginia; 1993, Pennsylvania
Colleges Attended, Degree & Year Graduated: West Virginia University, J.D., 1993; 1984-1987 completed significant course work towards a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing at Wheeling Jesuit University; West Liberty State College, Psychology, B.S., 1978
April D. Ferrebee
Professional Memberships & Achievements: April D. Ferrebee has been practicing law since 1999, focusing on representation of the injured in civil actions. Graduating from Marshall University in 1995, Cum Laude, she received her Juris Doctorate from West Virginia University College of Law in 1999.
Ms. Ferrebee has litigated numerous types of actions including, but not limited to, personal injury, wrongful death, insurance, fraud, oil and gas royalties, product liability, property damage, eminent domain and deliberate intent.
She is a member of the West Virginia State Bar and the West Virginia Association for Justice. She is admitted to practice before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals for the Southern District of West Virginia and the United States Court of Appeals - Fourth Circuit. She previously clerked for the Honorable Carrie Webster, 13th Judicial Circuit, Kanawha County, West Virginia.
Jurisdictions Attorney is Licensed in: West Virginia Supreme Court and all lower courts; United States Court of Appeals - Fourth Circuit; and United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
Date Admitted to the Bar: 1999, West Virginia
Colleges Attended, Degree & Year Graduated: Marshall University, B.A., Criminal Justice, 1995; WVU College of Law, J.D., 1999
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At The Masters Law Firm, we can review your claim, determine your case eligibility, and help you obtain just compensation for injuries and other damages. If you or a loved one is seeking a qualified attorney, contact our Charleston, West Virginia personal injury attorneys today.