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.

• Washington and Lee University, 1974 - 1976 
• West Virginia University, B.A. in Political Science, 1978
• West Virginia University College of Law, J.D., 1981

• 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

$290 hr.