GREG WEBB advocates for individuals and families challenged with bodily injuries from automobile and tractor-trailer crashes, construction and work-place accidents, automobile safety defects, wrongful death, products liability (defective consumer or manufacturing products), personal injury and asbestos litigation. After graduating from the University of Virginia in 1986, with a B.A. degree in Economics, Greg entered the United States Army for four years on active duty with the 10th Mountain Division, (Light Infantry). Greg entered law school in 1992 and graduated from the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond in 1995, (Law Review, 1993-95), when he was admitted to the Virginia State Bar and Federal Courts in Virginia. Greg recently obtained one of the largest wrongful death verdicts ever in Virginia when an Albemarle County jury returned a $5.625 million verdict in a tractor-trailer crash that took the life of a 16-year-old high school honor student. He has tried many other cases to verdict in Virginia and New York. Greg was admitted to the West Virginia State Bar in 2001. He has been admitted pro hac vice in cases in New York and Florida that yielded settlements in the eight figures. Greg has represented many clients in high-profile cases, including in auto accident and law enforcement excessive force cases. Practice Areas: Product liability (defective consumer goods), asbestos litigation, wrongful death claims or suits, environmental torts, personal injury, tractor trailer and commercial truck (bodily injury) law suits, criminal defense. Greg was married to his wife Susan in 1987. The have 2 daughters, ages 18 and 15. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia where he has practiced law for 16 years. He practiced for 3 years in Richmond, Virginia before that as a criminal defense attorney. His hobbies are playing his acoustic guitars, working out, traveling and reading. For more information on Greg, see: www.michiehamlett.com
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