Wrongful Death

WE HAVE 30+ YEARS EXPERIENCE IN AUTO ACCIDENTS/PERSONAL INJURY, MEDICAL MALPRACTICE, DEFECTIVE PRODUCTS, DANGEROUS PROPERTY AND LITIGATION NOTABLE SETTLEMENTS $4.2 million - wrongful death $1.3 million - workplace injury $650,000 - medical negligence $1million - amputation Numerous policy limits settlements and UM/UIM recoveries I AM COLORADO INJURY LAWYER THOMAS NAPP. OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS, I HAVE RECOVERED MILLIONS FOR MY CLIENTS BY FIGHTING FOR THEIR RIGHTS. BUT THAT IS NOT ENOUGH - A PERSONAL INJURY LAWYER GOING UP AGAINST INSURANCE COMPANIES AND BIG CORPORATIONS MUST ME SMART, SKILLED, ALWAYS PREPARED AND WILLING TO GO THAT EXTRA MEASURE TO GET A FAIR AND JUST RESULT. THAT IS WHO I AM. IF YOU ARE INJURED, I CAN HELP.

Richard C. Gramlich focuses his practice on Business, Real Estate and Construction Litigation, Insurance Bad Faith, Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, and Product Liability. He routinely represents contractors and owners in construction defect, non-pay/stop-pay claims, delay claims, professional negligence, Registrar of Contractor’s hearings, and general breach of contract. Mr. Gramlich was the lead counsel for the Scottsdale “W” Hotel’s construction defect and delay claim. Mr. Gramlich achieved the largest per home verdicts in Arizona for damage caused by expansive soil.1 He has successfully tried Business Tort, Personal Injury, Product Liability, and Insurance Bad Faith actions resulting in significant recoveries, and has earned the nickname “Bulldog” by many of his clients. Mr. Gramlich graduated from the University of Arizona in Business Administration, Finance and Real Estate, cum laude, in 1989 and from the Arizona State University College of Law, in the top third of his class, in 1992. He has been practicing law for the last 25 years in both State and Federal Court.

I became a lawyer to pursue justice for my clients. We founded Springer and Steinberg so when someone is injured or needs the scales of justice to be balanced in their favor we use our considerable experience to get them the results they deserve. Over the years I've litigated hundreds of cases in the Denver area and throughout the country. I'm proud of what I accomplish for my clients and the tens of millions of dollars that I have recovered on their behalf.

Attorney Henry, a Jamacian native, honed her skills over the past 28 years in a general litigation practice covering various practice areas with distinction. Though she has a lot of general practice, she has focus on civil rights violations, employment and labor litigation, and family law. Ms. Henry's experiences have led her to be very extremely experienced in mediating disputes and trying cases to verdict in animus and tricky scenarios.

Marc Johnston is the owner and Managing Attorney of Johnston Law Firm, P.C. He is admitted to practice in the State of Oregon and specializes in handling personal injury, wrongful death, and civil trials. He has a winning trial and arbitration record and fights tirelessly for his clients. Mr. Johnston’s career has been dedicated to representing the injured and surviving family members of people killed by negligence. He frequently takes on large corporations and insurance companies on behalf of injured clients. His focus on trial law creates the backbone of the Johnston Law Firm — a firm that is ready to go the distance in seeking justice for its clients. The Johnston Law Firm always offers a free consultation and is heralded by its former clients for excellent results, great compassion and skillful legal work.

Attorney At Law Attorney Joshua V. Callahan founded The Callahan Law Office in his home state of Oregon in 2014. Since then he has helped numerous clients in the Lake Oswego and Portland areas successfully attain the maximum compensation they deserve following motor vehicle, medical malpractice, and other accidents. While completing his formal education, and before opening his own practice, Joshua started a business providing trial support services as a consultant and technical expert. After supporting trial attorneys in over 50 trials statewide, Joshua knew he wanted to be a trial attorney himself. Watching and supporting some of the most experienced trial attorneys in the Portland area, including Attorney Ralph Rayburn, allowed Joshua to gain valuable legal experience unique among his peers. Drawing from this knowledge, Josh has become a successful negotiator and litigator in his own right, who fights tirelessly for the rights of his injured clients. Proud Combat Veteran, Husband & Father Joshua was born and raised in Southeast Portland. He served in the US Army as a Military Police Officer for almost eight years, during which time he was deployed overseas numerous times for combat and other important missions. Joshua then returned to the Portland area to complete his undergraduate degree and attend law school. Josh is married to his amazing wife Anne who is also an attorney in the Portland area. They are the parents of two young boys, Brady and Patrick. When he is not working diligently for his clients, Josh enjoys spending time with his family and friends as well as staying active on the golf course and the basketball court. Joshua and Anne live in the Southeast Portland area and plan to raise their boys in the same great environment they were both so lucky to grow up in as young children.

Mr. Foster’s practice is focused on catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, aviation accidents, insurance bad faith and industrial accidents. Education Mr. Foster received a bachelor of science degree in ocean engineering from the United States Naval Academy in 1998 and received his law degree from the West Virginia University College of Law in 2007. Professional Background Mr. Foster served as surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy from 1998 to 2004. From 2007 to 2016, Mr. Foster worked for a regional law firm and specialized in personal injury litigation, first party insurance defense, energy litigation and appellate law. Professional Associations Mr. Foster is a member of the West Virginia State Bar and a past chairperson of the West Virginia State Bar Young Lawyers Section. He is licensed to practice in the State of West Virginia and the District of Columbia. Mr. Foster is also admitted to the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Personal Mr. Foster is a native of Morgantown, West Virginia and resides in the Charleston area with his wife, three children and family dog, Scout.

David is a Kamehameha Schools graduate and completed his law degree at S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. David also obtained his Master in Business Administration at the University of Utah and a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Brigham Young University - Provo. David previously worked for the U.S. Attorney's Office, Salt Lake District Attorney's Office, and Adams Davis, a prestigious personal injury law firm in Utah. David is dedicated to giving back to the Hawaiian community. He enjoys coaching soccer in Kaneohe for HYSA and AYSO. David is also an accomplished Samoan Fire Knife Dancer, Native American Hoop Dancer, and pianist. He regularly provides volunteer performances with his family in the community for schools, churches, and elderly homes. David previously placed as a semi-finalist in the World Fire Knife Competition at the Polynesian Cultural Center and won the inaugural Kauai Polynesian Festival Fire Knife Competition. David enjoys playing Hawaiian and reggae music and spending time with his wife and four children.

Since 1983, Attorney George Albiston has been representing injured people who have suffered serious and permanent injuries. His practice has included all types of cases, including wrongful death, brain injury, and other serious injuries. George's focus has always been on trying to help those injured or bereaved by the negligence of others. He came to understand that this practice involves helping people during the most difficult time in their lives, financially, physically, and emotionally. George has always done that with compassion and understanding. He has been recognized by his peers for personal injury in Best Lawyers in America from 2011-2021, Virginia Super Lawyers for Personal Injury 2011-2021, Virginia Legal Elite 2011-20211, and the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers from 2012-2021

Born in the tiny coal-mining community of Williamson and raised in Parkersburg, West Virginia, by blue-collar working-class parents who placed a premium on hard work, honesty, and personal integrity, Bernie Layne of Mani Ellis & Layne, PLLC learned from an early age that his path to success would have to be paved with over achievement. While both of his parents grew up in abject poverty that can only be understood or imagined by those who have experienced day-to-day life in ‘coal camp’ housing in southern West Virginia, they became acutely aware of the value and necessity of education and sweat equity as a means of rising above their circumstance. It is from this culture and environment that Bernie’s parents instilled in him, and his two sisters, to never forget where they have come from and to always use their God-given talents and abilities to help people around them who are disadvantaged, hurting, disabled, destitute, or who are being abused by those in a more powerful position than themselves in society. Growing up in Parkersburg, just across the river from Marietta and Belpre, Ohio, he gained a deep, abiding respect for the hardworking people on both sides of the border. Rising from the social position of an ‘underdog,’ it isn’t hard to understand how Bernie has come to embrace these roots by becoming a highly successful legal advocate and defender of the rights of injured working-class West Virginians and Ohioans. A Strong Competitive Spirit As you can imagine, it takes tremendous family support and lots of competitive spirit to become one of only a few college graduates in his family and to become the first lawyer in his immediate or extended family. That love for competition was introduced to him as a child, by his father, an accomplished sportswriter at the Williamson Daily News. Bernie developed a love for the game of basketball and baseball and eventually earned a baseball scholarship to attend the University of Charleston in Charleston, West Virginia. As a college student-athlete, Bernie was introduced to the importance of academic and athletic discipline, teamwork, handling success and overcoming failure. As his dream of playing professional baseball faded, his commitment to personal development and higher education strengthened. Before leaving UC, Bernie was named the Ivor F. Boiarsky Award Winner, which annually recognizes the top Political Science Student in the graduating class, won a statewide award for his senior thesis, in the area of Public Law Policy, on the pitfalls and environmental evils associated with an inadequate and corrupt strip mine permitting system in West Virginia, was voted by his peers as the Student Body President and was chosen by the administration to deliver the commencement address on behalf of his graduating class, while sharing the stage with the late Senator Robert C. Byrd. Inspired to help the disadvantaged Using his undergraduate success as a springboard, Bernie went on to attend graduate school at The Ohio University, where he received a Master of Arts Degree in Sociology. After graduate school, Bernie returned to Appalachia where he worked with elderly and disabled individuals through the Title 19 Medicaid Waiver Program in Southern West Virginia. The year spent working with catastrophically injured people through Title 19 firmed his resolve and commitment to make a difference in the lives of the hardworking citizens of this state. This experience made Bernie aware of the obstacles that face disabled and poverty-stricken individuals and the myriad of statutory and legal hurdles they face, while unable to afford adequate legal assistance to address their needs. Bernie’s disappointment in the legal system and its treatment of handicapped, disabled, and elderly individuals led him to attend law school at The University of Dayton School of Law where he graduated with his Juris Doctor in the Spring of 1999. After finishing law school, Bernie remained in Dayton as a judicial extern for The Honorable Barbara Gorman, the first female judge of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas. In the years following his law school graduation, Bernie has remained committed to preserving the rights of injured and disadvantaged citizens of our state and has limited his practice to cases which involve people who have been injured due to the negligence of another person, corporation or governmental body. Throughout his career, he has successfully taken on big corporate asbestos producers who exposed plant workers and pipefitters to deadly and cancer-causing asbestos fibers. He has successfully confronted coal mining companies that deliberately injured workers through a neglect of OSHA regulations and state laws designed to protect this state’s workers. Further, Bernie has successfully resolved wrongful death cases involving children, medical malpractice and poorly designed products by large corporate interests who chose to place profits as a priority over the safety of our citizens. In 2021, Mani, Ellis & Layne, PLLC expanded to a new office in Columbus, OH. For Bernie, who earned both of his graduate degrees in Ohio and has many close family members in Columbus and the surrounding towns, this was a homecoming of sorts, an opportunity to advocate for hardworking people throughout both Ohio and West Virginia. Recognized by his peers Bernie’s success and achievement have been greatly rewarded as he and his partners have built an accomplished law firm at Mani Ellis & Layne, PLLC. His professional attributes and success have also been noticed by his trial lawyer peers. In 2005, he was given the Distinguished Service Award by the West Virginia Association for Justice (WVAJ), which is a group that represents the interests of the injured and disabled in West Virginia. Attorney Layne has been a member of WVAJ and the American Association for Justice for more than a decade. He is past president of WVAJ, serving from June 2013 to June 2014. He has also served on the WVAJ Executive Committee (nine years), the WVAJ Board of Governors and as a member of the LAWPAC organization. He was recently invited to join the prestigious, Southern Trial Lawyers organization and has been apponted to The Charleston Coliseum & Convention Center where he serves on its Executive and Building & Grounds Committees. Additionally, he served a two-year stint as a member of the West Virginia Bar Association’s Judicial Campaign Advertising Committee, which sought to regulate unfair, unethical and untruthful advertising during judicial campaign election cycles. In 2013, he was appointed to the University of Charleston Board of Trustees and served on the Executive and Outreach Committees within that board. He is now serving his twelfth year on the board. In 2014, he was named Alumnus of the Year at the University of Charleston. In 2017, he was appointed chairman of the Welch Challenge Campaign, an $8 million fund-raising initiative at the school. Also in 2013, Mr. Layne received an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, which is the highest rating attorneys can achieve from that organization. Only 2% of all practitioners nationwide earn that rating. In 2018, Bernie was selected to the West Virginia Super Lawyers list by his peers. Bernie has obtained several significant verdicts and settlements and has been granted membership in the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. On a community level, Bernie recently completed a seven-year term on the Putnam County Career and Technical Center’s Healthcare Advisory Board, on which he worked with other community leaders to design, implement and guide the LPN Nursing Program at the school. His efforts in this area are consistent with his desire to work toward broad based community and rural health care initiatives which support healthcare for the underprivileged throughout our state’s communities.