Wheeling Lawyers

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

Attorney J. Michael Prascik received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Sociology magna cum laude in 1999 from West Virginia University. In 2002, he earned his Juris Doctorate degree from the West Virginia University College of Law, where he also worked as a teaching assistant in the Legal Research and Writing Program. Mr. Prascik is a member of the West Virginia State Bar, the Ohio Bar Association, and the American Association for Justice. In 2002, Attorney Prascik joined Hartley Law Group, PLLC, where he has represented clients against corporate defendants in complex litigation in fourteen states and a...

For nearly two decades, Attorney Leslie Anne James has been dedicated to representing individuals who have suffered from mesothelioma. In fact, over 10 years ago, Ms. James helped to create a distinct court deemed specifically to handle lawsuits brought on by mesothelioma and asbestos-related cancer cases. To find out more about the dedicated counsel and passionate representation offered by Attorney James, do not hesitate to contact Hartley Law Group, PLLC today.

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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...

Andrew (A.J.) Thomas graduated from West Virginia University in 2011 with a B.A. in Political Science and minors in Sociology and Philosophy. He received his J.D. from West Virginia University College of Law in 2014, where he graduated in the top one-third of his class. While in law school, A.J. served as a student-attorney for the WVU College of Law Clinical Law Program and received a CALI award for outstanding achievement in the study of Elder Law. A.J. is from Wellsburg, WV, and graduated from Brooke High School in 2007. A.J. currently serves as Fiduciary Commissioner for Brooke County,...

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...

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...