Grant Town Lawyers

Clagett Law Office represents consumer debtors and sole proprietorships in bankruptcy. Our office is located at the Saltwell Rd. exit of I-79 (Exit 125). We are on the first floor of the office building behind the Exxon station. Please visit our website for driving directions.

Patrick Crowe is an attorney, licensed to practice law in the State of West Virginia. Patrick's educational experience includes a Master's degree from West Virginia University and a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) degree from the West Virginia University College of Law. Patrick brings a unique blend of professional experience to his practice. Patrick's legal experience includes serving as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Susan B. Tucker in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit of Monongalia County, West Virginia (2022-2023). Patrick has also completed internships with the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of West Virginia and the West Virginia University...

Hey, I’m Kevin! I am proud to be the managing partner of Kaufman & McPherson, PLLC, where I’ve dedicated my career to serving clients' legal needs in North Central West Virginia. Growing up in Bridgeport, I graduated from high school as a National Merit Scholar, which led me to West Virginia University, where I earned my Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, an MBA, and my law degree. After law school, I began my career with Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation, eventually joining the law department of Columbia Natural Resources. In 1987, I co-founded the Charleston firm Pierson & Kaufman, where I...

Small Town rurul kid; 4-H Clubs, Methodist Youth Fellowship;Linsly Military Institute. WV Wesleyan College, WV Univ. College of Law; USAF JAG Corp. Small Town lawyer in North Central WV for 38 years.

Hey, I’m Adam! I’m a personal injury attorney at Kaufman & McPherson, PLLC. I began my legal career in 2002, initially handling a variety of cases, including family law, before focusing exclusively on representing injured clients. I grew up in Harrison County and graduated from Liberty High School before earning my Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice with a minor in Psychology from Fairmont State College. I started my legal education at Thomas Cooley Law School in Michigan before returning to West Virginia to complete my law degree at WVU College of Law. While in law school, I gained hands-on experience as...

For more than a decade, attorney Allison J. Farrell has practiced “dirt law” in the Appalachian Basin. This Buffalo native earned her stripes as an oil, gas, and coal attorney litigating complex title and natural resource development issues in both state and federal courts for industry clients. Over the years, Allison has represented clients in a wide variety of property-based legal matters, including quiet title actions, lease litigation, eminent domain actions, partition claims, surface use disputes, easement and right-of-way disputes, estate contests, land contract enforcement and foreclosure, estate disputes, and judicial sales of real estate, to name a few. She...

William T. Nestor, affectionately known as Ty, is deeply dedicated to providing his clients with exceptional legal counsel. Ensuring favorable case outcomes and client satisfaction is Ty's utmost priority as an attorney. To consistently meet these goals, Ty adopts a straightforward approach: he empathizes with his clients, placing himself in their shoes, and advocates for them as he would for himself if confronted with the same legal challenges. This approach resonates with his clients, who have chosen Ty from countless other options. They firmly believe that Ty is the finest attorney they can engage, and thus, they rightfully deserve nothing...

Christian E. Turak is an oil and gas lawyer and partner at Gold Khourey & Turak. Because he focuses his practice on oil and gas law, Christian provides his clients with a wealth of knowledge and experience when it comes to oil and gas issues. Whether he is representing a client in a lease negotiation, pipeline negotiation, or a multi-million-dollar royalty dispute, Christian makes sure that he gives each and every client and their case the personal attention they deserve. After all, Christian’s job is not just about obtaining the very best result possible, it’s about making the...

Attorney Dean Hartley is one of the founding attorneys at Hartley and O’Brien, PLLC. Mr. Hartley received his Bachelor of Sciences degree from East Carolina University in 1978. He earned his Juris Doctorate degree in 1981 from West Virginia University College of Law. Attorney Hartley has a strong passion for personal injury victims and puts his knowledge of the law to use in order to help clients achieve their rightful compensation. Mr. Hartley makes it his personal mission to step in and fight for the rights of those who have been injured on the job due to exposure of toxic...

Chris Regan's practice focuses on complex litigation, jury trials, and appellate work. He has obtained substantial jury verdicts, including multi-million dollar results, in cases of workplace injury, insurance bad faith, trucking wrecks, negligence, wrongful death, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse and professional negligence. Several of his cases have resulted in awards of punitive damages, attorney's fees and litigation sanctions against the defendants. Chris focuses his attention on the worst corporate actors, involved in intentional wrongdoing toward citizens both in and out of the courtroom. Notable jury verdicts in Chris' cases include Kilgore v. Bedi ($890,000.00, Medical Malpractice, 2013), Doe...

Abigail Benjamin has a focused practice in Energy Law, Oil & Gas Law, Environmental Law and Real Estate Law in Central West Virginia. She has won a large settlement against a Fortune 500 Company and an environmental concession against a natural gas company with a state monopoly. Abigail Benjamin is an Instructor of Environmental Law and Policy at West Virginia Wesleyan College.

Michelle Marinacci is a medical malpractice and insurance dispute lawyer at Gold Khourey & Turak. Whether a person is in a dispute with their insurance company or has suffered an injury as a result of a medical error, Michelle knows how to obtain results for her clients. Because Michelle began her legal career at a defense litigation firm, she gained invaluable insight as to how insurance companies, healthcare providers, and their attorneys think. Michelle now uses that insight to fight for her clients and hold insurance companies and healthcare providers accountable. With over 25 years of litigation...

Taylor D. Potts is a Social Security and Veterans Affairs disability lawyer at Gold Khourey & Turak. From a young age, Taylor saw that the law could be used as a tool to help those who needed it most. That is what attracted him to becoming a lawyer and is the same thing that makes him a natural fit to represent those seeking social security or VA disability benefits. Taylor understands that people seeking disability benefits are unquestionably at one of, if not the most, difficult times of their life. He takes that understanding to heart...

Hey, I’m Mike! I’m proud to be an attorney at Kaufman & McPherson, PLLC, where I focus exclusively on personal injury law, helping clients across North Central West Virginia get the justice they deserve. I was born and raised in Bridgeport. I earned my undergraduate degree in political science from West Virginia University and then attended WVU College of Law. While in law school, I was honored to receive the CALI Award for Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law. Before joining Kaufman & McPherson, I owned and operated my own law firm in Clarksburg, where I handled a wide range of legal matters....

Nationally recognized attorney and author Sharon Eubanks joined the Bordas & Bordas team in July 2015. She focuses on complex civil litigation. In 2000, Eubanks served as lead counsel on behalf of the United States in United States v. Phillip Morris USA, et al., - the federal tobacco litigation. This was the largest civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) enforcement action ever filed. Following the nine-month trial, it was determined by the federal district court that the major U.S. cigarette companies violated the civil provisions of RICO and committed fraud. The Court ordered the companies to change their...

Experienced trial attorney who has tried cases in state and federal courts throughout W.Va., and pursued appeals in the 4th Circuit and the Supreme Court of Appeals. Focused primarily upon representation of plaintiffs, but business litigation is another area of concentration. Recent cases: Currently engaged in 40 cases on behalf of people defrauded by a dealership which did not payoff liens against consumers' trade-in's. Currently engaged in the second round of 26 cases on behalf of people defrauded by a different dealership involving similar facts. In 2007, represented 21 former employees throughout W.Va. of a big-box retailer who asserted they were victims of age...

Jeremy McGraw is a personal injury and nursing home abuse lawyer at Gold Khourey & Turak. Jeremy has represented seriously injured and damaged individuals in many different areas of the law. When a person suffers an injury due to the careless actions of another or at the hands of corporate greed, Jeremy knows what it takes to get justice for his clients. While justice can be measured in different ways, Jeremy understands that in many situations the law measures justice by the type of results he obtains in his cases. Jeremy’s focus is always first and foremost on...

If you have been injured in a car accident, truck accident or injured due to a dog bite, you need an experienced West Virginia personal injury attorney to seek the compensation you deserve. Contact our firm today to schedule a consultation with us!

Attorney Scott Brown has been successfully representing clients with tenacity and compassion since graduating from the West Virginia College of Law in 1996. Graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Tech in 1986, Scott worked in a research laboratory, as an investigator with the West Virginia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, and as an office manager at a physician's office, a job he continued throughout law school.

From his offices in Wheeling, West Virginia, Scott vigorously represents and defends clients in West Virginia and eastern Ohio who have been charged with a crime or are facing potential criminal...

Attorney Clayton Fitzsimmons concentrates his practices on representing workers injured on the job and family members of workers who have been killed in a workplace injury. He has experience in litigating "deliberate intention" claims against employers, as well as coal mining accidents, oil and gas accidents and explosions, construction accidents, industrial accidents, and workplace accidents.

Representing institutional oil and gas clients in complex mineral title examinations and certifications and government relations/lobbying, and serving the general public in residential, commercial and mineral real estate transactions, title certifications, document preparation, title insurance, closings, and alternative dispute resolution/mediation.

SInce 1992 I have focused my practice in the area of civil litigation. I have represented clients in many areas of litigation including product liability, employment, toxic tort, mass tort, medical malpractice and personal injury claims.

As the founder of the Jividen Law Offices, PLLC, Attorney Dave Jividen provides legal representation in criminal and civil law issues. He has 35 years of experience in the legal field, and he has handled cases in over a dozen states. Before the establishing of his own firm, Attorney Jividen spent time as a federal prosecutor and coordinator of the President’s Narcotics and Organized Crimes Task Force. Mr. Jividen received his undergraduate degree from Bethan College and his Juris Doctor from the West Virginia University. For more information, please contact his firm today.