CHARLESTON – Hendrickson & Long PLLC attorney Jeffry Hall recently was selected as 2016 "Lawyer of the Year" for Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants in the Charleston area.
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Hall, a partner, joined the firm in 1997. His primary areas of practice include product liability, insurance defense, toxic tort, and mass tort litigation, including asbestos and silica cases, PCB, solvents, multi-chemical sensitivity, and other personal injury and general defense litigation.
Hall practiced law in Michigan for seven years before returning to his home state of West Virginia in 1990. Since his return, he has specialized in general insurance defense ranging from automobile accidents to premise liability claims. He also has extensive experience in the areas of product liability and toxic torts, representing corporations and employers in premise and deliberate intent claims and representing manufacturers in claims of chemical exposure.
Hall has more than 20 years of trial experience in both state and federal courts in West Virginia and Michigan. He also has appeared in several additional states and the District of Columbia on behalf of corporate clients.