Office Location: Richmond, VA
Mark has over 36 years of extensive trial and litigation experience in state and federal courts. Mark defends physicians, nurses, hospitals, nursing home/long-term care facilities, physical therapists, dentists, and all other categories of health care providers against medical malpractice wrongful death and personal injury claims. Mark also represents health care providers in professional disciplinary proceedings.
In addition to medical malpractice defense litigation, Mark represents a major regional transportation system in defense of liability claims and subrogation matters, as well as numerous other clients in civil litigation matters involving subrogation, defense of personal injury and wrongful death cases, products liability, and employment discrimination claims.
Mark is admitted to practice in all federal and state courts of Virginia and West Virginia, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. Mark has been a member of the law firm’s governing body, the Executive Board, for many years, and serves as the Practice Group Manager of the firm’s Workers Compensation and Professional Liability practice. He is also a member of the City of Richmond Bar Association, the Virginia Association of Defense Lawyers, the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, the Virginia Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, North Carolina Bar Association, West Virginia Bar Association, The Defense Research Institute, and the American Trial Lawyers Association.
Mark currently serves as Chair of the Virginia State Bar Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Board and as a member of the Virginia Supreme Court Medical Malpractice Review Panel. In addition, he was named by Virginia Lawyer’s Weekly as a “Go To Lawyers for Medical Malpractice”. Mark is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America and is regularly selected as one of Virginia Business’ “Virginia Legal Elite” in the field of Health Law.
Mark is also active in numerous civic, business and professional organizations, including committees of the Virginia Health Care Association, and Virginia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Mark received a B.A. from the University of Delaware and a J.D. from the University of Richmond, where he was an associate editor of The Law Review. He served as law clerk to the Honorable David G. Lowe, United States Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and as an officer for eight years in the U.S. Army Reserves Judge Advocate General’s Corps, Headquarters, and XVIII Airborne Corps in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.