Innerviews: ‘You are seeing more black lawyers’
When Elliot Hicks graduated from the West Virginia University law school in 1981 and started practice in a downtown Charleston storefront, he never dreamed he’d wind up working for one of the state’s most prestigious law firms in a classy office overlooking the river. Big-time firms just didn’t hire blacks. more…
By Sandy Wells, Staff writer
From Feb. 11, 2008 Charleston Gazette
Elliott G. Hicks
Counsel
Spilman, Thomas & Battle
Charleston, West Virginia
Mr. Hicks’ primary area of practice is litigation with a focus on product liability, premises liability, corporate and commercial litigation, insurance defense and medical malpractice defense.
Representative Experience
Has taken over 80 jury trials to verdict in state circuit courts and federal district courts, as well as numerous bench trials in circuit and magistrate courts
One of a few lawyers who has taken a West Virginia “Mass Tort” case to verdict
In demand as a mediator, mediating more than 70 cases in all parts of West Virginia and eastern Virginia
Has presented lectures on insurance law, trial tactics, legal ethics and office technology throughout West Virginia and in several seminars with a national audience
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
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