Roger D. Forman

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Practice Areas: Employment Law; Wrongful Termination; Civil Litigation; Personal Injury; Constitutional Law; Social Security; Automobile Accidents and Injuries; Slip and Fall; Black Lung; Criminal Law.

Admitted: 1976, Iowa and U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa; 1979, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 1980, West Virginia and U.S. District Court, Southern District of West Virginia; 1981, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1983, New York; 1995, U.S. Supreme Court

Law School: Antioch School of Law, J.D., 1975.

College: University of Michigan, B.A., 1970.

Member: West Virginia State Bar; West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association.

Biography: Attorney, Legal Aid Society of Polk County, Iowa, 1975-1977, Managing Attorney, Legal Services Corporation of Iowa, 1977-1980. Coordinator, West Virginia Legislatures Commission on Social Security, 1984—. Chairperson, Sioux City Housing Board of Appeals, 1976-1977. Board Member, National Board for West Virginia Civil Liberties Union, 1987-1988. President, Legal Aid Society of Charleston, 1999-2001.

Languages: Spanish and French.

Reported Cases: United States Steel Mining Co. v. Director, OWCP, 187 F.3d 384 (4th Cir.1999); Sargent v. Holland, 114 F.3d 33 (4th Cir.1997); Underwood v. Elkay Mining, 105 F.3d 946 (4th Cir.1997); Malcomb v. Island Creek Coal Co., 15 F.3d 364 (4th Cir.1994); Taylor v. Director, OWCP, 967 F.2d 961 (4th Cir.1992); Robinson v. Pickands and Mather Leslie Coal Co., 914 F.2d 35 (4th Cir.1990); Adkins v. Director, OWCP, 878 F.2d 151 (4th Cir.1989); Wooldridge v. Bowen, 816 F.2d 157 (4th Cir.1987); Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States DOL v. Hamm, 113 f.3d 23 (4th Cir.1997); Cabtley v. Simmons, 179 F. Supp.2d 654 (U.S.D.C.,S.D.W.Va, 2002); Bartram v. wolfe, 152 F.2d 898 (U.S.D.C.S.D.W.Va, 2001); Watson v. Charleston Housing Authority, 83 F.2d 709 (U.S.D.C.S.D.W.Va, 2000);Manns v. Smith, 181 F.R.D. 329 (U.S.D.C.S.D.W.Va, 1998); Persinger v. Peabody Coal co., 976 F.supp. 1038 (U.S.D.C., S.D.W.Va, 1997); Ramseur v. Reich, 1997 U.S. Dist. Lexis 23635; Goan v. Shalala, 853 F. Supp. 218 (U.S.D.C., S.D.W.Va, 1994); Smith v. Secretary of IIIIS, 794 F.Supp. 591 (U.S.D.C., S.D.W.Va. 1992); McCoy v. CANC, 557 S. F.2d 290 (W.Va. 1999); Cobb v. E.I. Dupont DeNemours & Co., 549 S.E.2d 657 (W.Va., 1999); Sayre v. Roop, 517 S.E.2d 290 (W.Va., 1999); Allstate Ins. Co. v. Smith, 504S.E.2d 434 (W.Va., 1998); Persinger v. Peabody Coal Co., 474 S.E.2d 887 (W.Va., 1996); Women's Health Ctr. v. Panepinto, 446 S.E.2d 658 (W.Va., 1993); Coffman v. U.S. Steel Mining Co., 185 W.Va. 388; 407 S.E.2d 392 (W.Va. 1991); Coffman v. U.S. Steel Mining Co., 363 S.E.2d 750 (W.Va 1987); State v. Welker, 357 S.E.2d 240 (W.Va. 1987); Skaggs v. Eastern Associated Coal Corp., 569 S.E.2d 769 (W.Va., 2002); McCoy v. Miller, 578 S.E.2d 355 (W.Va. 2003).

Born: New Rochelle, New York, November 6, 1949.

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