Regularly travels out of state to: Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
Other ADR Services: ADR Training/CME, Discovery Referee, Early Neutral Evaluation, Facilitation & Systems Design, Fact Finding, Med-Arb, Special Master
Mr. Hicks' primary areas of practice are mediation/arbitration. His former practice consisted entirely of litigation with a focus on product liability, premises liability, employment law, corporate and commercial litigation, insurance law cases, medical malpractice defense, and higher education law.
Case Experience
Automotive
Civil Rights
Commercial/Business
Consumer Fraud
Contract Disputes
Discrimination
Education
Employment
Energy Sector (Oil/Gas)
Engineering
Environmental
Family Businesses
Health Care
Industrial
Insurance
Legal Malpractice
Lemon Law
Medical Devices
Medical Malpractice
Mining
Personal Injury
Premises Liability
Product Liability
Professional Liability
Professional Malpractice
Professional Negligence
Religious Institutions
Sexual Harassment
Torts
Wrongful Death
Education
Washington and Lee University, 1974 - 1976
West Virginia University, B.A. in Political Science, 1978
West Virginia University College of Law, J.D., 1981
Memberships & Affiliations
West Virginia State Bar, President, 1998 - 1999 - Representative, West Virginia State Bar Board of Governors, 1993 - 1996 - Appointed by two State Bar Presidents in 1999 and 2006 as Chairman of Lawyer Advertising Commission to examine and develop rules governing lawyer advertising
American Bar Association, House of Delegates, 1998 - 1999
American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow, 2007
West Virginia Bar Foundation, Fellow, 2005
American Bar Foundation, Fellow, 2011
Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, Member
American Inns of Court, Judge John A. Field, Jr. Chapter, Charter Member as Master of the Bench, 2002
DRI, Member
Appointed by the Honorable Elliott E. Maynard, then-Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, to serve on a commission to devise standard jury instructions for West Virginia cases, 2000
Kanawha County Bar Association, President, 1988 - 1989