Admitted
1967, West Virginia
Law School
Yale Law School, LL.B., 1967
Law School Graduation Year
1967
College
Dartmouth College, A.B., 1964
Biographical
Justice, West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, 1973-1995. Retired as Chief Justice, 1995. Legal Advisor to John Paul Vann, Republic of Vietnam, 1968-1969; practicing lawyer in own firm, Fairmont, WV, 1969-1973. Member, West Virginia Legislature, 1971-1973. Author: How Courts Govern America, Yale University Press, 1980; Why Courts Don't Work, McGraw Hill, 1982; The Divorce Decision, McGraw Hill, 1983; Judicial Jeopardy: When Business Collides with the Courts, Addison-Wesley, 1986; The Product Liability Mess: How Business Can Be Rescued from State Court Politics', Free Press, 1989 - also available in Japanese from Toshiaki Hasegawa; Take Back your Neighborhood, Donald I. Fine, 1991; Tragedies of Our Own Making, University of Illinois Press, 1994; Articles: The Politics of Crime, The Atlantic Monthly, August 1981; Why Wage-price Guidelines Failed: a Theory of the Second Best Approach to Inflation Control, 79 W.Va. Law Rev. 1, 1974; Obsolete Statutes, Structural Due Process, and the Power of Courts to Demand a Second Legislative Look, 131 U. Penn. L. Rev. 271, 1982; The Primary Caretaker Parent Rule: Child Custody and the Dynamics of Greed, Yale Law and Policy Rev. 168, 1986; Insider Trading Prosecutions Under the Misappropriation Theory: New York's Joke on Heartland America,' 1995 WL 267860: Series Editor, Callaghan Trial Practice Series: Case Assessment and Evaluation, Examination of Witnesses, Pretrial Discovery: Strategy & Tactics, Jury Selection: Strategy & Science. William Frederick Atherton Lecturer, Harvard University, 1982-1983. Visiting Professor of Law, Fudan University, Shanghai, Peoples' Republic of China, 1984. Life-Member, Fourth Circuit Judicial Council. Member, Advisory Board, BNA Class Action Litigation Raport. Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers.
Military
Capt. U.S. Army Artillery, 1967-1969