Ms. Lawrence’s primary areas of practice are general litigation, including personal injury, asbestos, products liability and workers' compensation litigation.

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Education

• Marshall University, B.A., Journalism, summa cum laude, 2004
• West Virginia University College of Law, J.D., 2007
• University of Virginia National Trial Advocacy College, 2012

Experience

• Representing clients in general litigation matters
• Defending employers in workers’ compensation claims related to workplace injuries, occupational disease, occupational pneumoconiosis and hearing loss
• Representing clients in asbestos litigation, toxic tort, and mass consolidation cases
• Defending clients against personal injury, wrongful death and products liability claims, including deliberate intent and premise liability lawsuits in toxic tort litigation
• Representing clients in insurance defense and personal injury litigation

Distinctions

• Nominated by her peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America for Insurance Law and Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

Admissions

• West Virginia State Bar
• Virginia State Bar (inactive)
• Supreme Court of the United States
• United States District Courts for the Southern and Northern Districts of West Virginia
• United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Memberships

• Vice-Chair, Workers' Compensation and Employers' Liability General Committee, American Bar Association
• Chair, American Bar Association Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) Workers’ Compensation and Employer Liability Committee
• Member Designee, Southeast Region, National Workers Compensation Defense Network
• Defense Research Institute: Former Publications Vice Chair, Lawyers’ Professionalism and Ethics Committee
• Former Chair, Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia Insurance Law Committee

Publications & Presentations

• Panelist, “Look Before You Leap: Analyzing Differences in Compensability of Workplace Injuries,” National Workers’ Compensation Defense Network, September 21, 2021
• Panelist, National Workers’ Compensation Defense Network State Sidebar 2020, November 6, 2020
• Panelist, “End of 2016 West Virginia Legislative Session—A review of significant new laws,” April 2016
• Co-Author, West Virginia Chapter, Misrepresentation in the Life, Health, and Disability Insurance Application Process: A National Survey, Second Edition, 2015
• Author, “Attorneys’ Fees and Prosecuting Bad Faith/UTPA Cases,” DTCWV Spring Newsletter, 2014
• Co-Author, “ABA Amends Model Rules of Professional Conduct to Address Changes Brought by Technology and Globalization,” Professionalism Perspectives, Vol. 14 No. 1, a publication of DRI, May 2013
• Co-Author, “Insuring Your Growing Assets in the Appalachian Shale Plays,” The Shale Play Today, November 2012

Community Involvement

• Church at the Depot Board of Trustees
• Former Member, The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation Scholarship Committee