Partner, Bowles Rice LLP By Jean Hardiman Tom Lane is a name that means different things to different people. Many know him for the trusted counsel he provides as a partner with Bowles Rice LLP, others for his work on Charleston City Council, where he served for 32 years. Meanwhile, lawyers practicing throughout the country…
Partner, Holcomb + Ward, LLP, and Representative, State of Georgia By Katlin Swisher From the military to the statehouse, Scott Holcomb’s legal career has been defined by public service. After graduating from West Virginia University (WVU) College of Law in 1997, Holcomb began his career as a lawyer in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s…
President and Owner, Hicks Resolutions and Ellerbee Enterprises, Inc. By Jamie Null By the time he had reached the ninth grade, Elliot Hicks knew he wanted to be a lawyer. The Charleston native, now the president and owner of Hicks Resolutions and Ellerbee Enterprises, Inc., was inspired to make a difference in the world during…
Managing Member, Jackson Kelly PLLC By Kristen Uppercue Growing up, Ellen Cappellanti’s father encouraged her to earn her keep and be financially independent. This motivated her to explore many different careers like travel agent, mortician, oceanographer and physician. Cappellanti, a native of Morgantown, WV, decided to pursue a biology major during her undergraduate studies at…
Founding and Managing Member & Founding Member, Casey & Chapman, PLLC By Katlin Swisher Patrick Casey and Sandra Chapman were first-year law students at West Virginia University (WVU) College of Law in the early 1980s when they met “As Patrick tells it, he sat in the back of the classroom, and I sat in the…
Judge, U.S. District Court By Olivia Miller The youngest of nine children, Judge Irene Berger was raised in McDowell County, the southernmost county in West Virginia, where her father worked in the coal mines for nearly 41 years. Her mother was a housewife, and both were bright and well read despite not having a high…