Stephen Crislip

Background

About Stephen Crislip

Defends Lawyers and Law Firms. Former General Counsel to National Law Firm. Stephen R. Crislip is the former General Counsel to Jackson Kelly PLLC and has been a defense lawyer for over forty years. His practice focuses primarily in litigation with an emphasis on the defense of cases involving professional liability, business litigation, construction litigation and business litigation. He has been active in the Defense Research Institute, The American Bar Association, the West Virginia Bar Association and the West Virginia State Bar. He is a former President of the Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia, a former President of the West Virginia Bar Association and the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys (ADTA). He has been active in the Charleston community having served ten years on the Board of Directors of the Charleston Family YMCA and is a former Chairman of its Board. He served as a trustee of The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation from 1996 to 2003 and as its Chairman of the Board. He has also served as the Chairman of the Visiting Committee at the West Virginia University College of Law. He has served on the Board of the Alzheimer's Association, West Virginia Chapter. He has been a lecturer for West Virginia CLE and various other bar related groups. He was the chapter author on evidence for the prototype Fourth Circuit handbook and is now the West Virginia chapter author for The Tort Law Desk Reference, a Fifty State Compendium, as well as the ABA Legal Malpractice Compendium for West Virginia. He is a chapter author for a Defense Research Institute book on law office management. He is also the author of a legal humor book, Down To The Hard Road, and Lawyering for Lawyers a national blog on loss prevention and humor.