Roberta F. Green

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Roberta F. Green joined Shuman, McCuskey & Slicer, PLLC in May 1994 and became a member of the firm in 1999.  Ms. Green's practice has come to focus on insurance defense, medical and professional malpractice, products liability and personal injury defense, state and municipal government liability, administrative and regulatory law, labor and employment law, environmental law, civil rights (including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)), constitutional law, and appellate practice.  Her clients include individuals, physicians, ambulance services, volunteer fire departments, and corporations, among other entities.  Throughout her years of practice, Ms. Green has handled litigation in these areas before administrative tribunals and in state and federal courts across the state and region.  Ms. Green also has considerable experience with appellate work, both before the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Roberta was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, and previously served as an award-winning faculty member at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and Virginia Tech (VPI&SU) in Blacksburg, where her areas of research and publication included film and feminist theory.  She and her husband, chemical engineer Hal Foss, enjoy traveling and working on their golf games together.

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Published Works

  • "Legislative Guidelines for and Judicial Review of Contingency Fees in Tort Cases: Protecting the 'Little Guy' from Excessive Fees" (Co-Author), Defense Trial Counsel 1996 Notebook
  • "Legislative and Judicial Controls of Contingency Fees in Tort Cases" (Co-Author), 99 W.Va.L.Rev 81, Fall, 1996
  • "Undue, Unfair, Undone: The Tension Between 'Probative' and 'Prejudicial' in Rule 403 of the Rules of Evidence" (Co-Author), Defense Trial Counsel 1995 Notebook
  • Louisiana Administrative Code (Editor), Titles 7, 46, 1985-1986
  • Synopsis of Louisiana Law and Practice (Co-Author), 1982-1990
  • "Narrowing the Scope of Capital Murder During the Commission of a Robbery: When Must the Intent to Rob Arise?," Capital Defense Digest, Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring 1993

Representative Cases

  • King v. Heffernan, 2003 WL 22850620 (W.Va. 2003)
  • Strawser v. Atkins, 290 F.3d 720 (4th Cir. (W.Va.) 2002)
  • In re Mountain Laurel Resources Co., 258 B.R. 652, 31 Envtl.L.Rep. 20,435 (S.D.W.Va. 2001)
  • Pleasants v. Alliance Corp., 209 W.Va 39, 543 S.E.2d 320 (W.Va. 2000)
  • Crispen v. West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Com'n, 206 W.Va. 486, 525 S.E.2d 677, 142 Ed.Law.Rep 551 (W.Va. 1999)
  • Jan-Care Ambulance Service, Inc. v. Public Service Com'n of West Virginia, 206 W.Va. 183, 522 S.E.2d 912 (W.Va. 1999)
  • U.S. v. Bailey, 112 F.3d 758 (4th Cir. (W.Va.) 1997)
  • Kirkpatrick v. Raleigh County Bd. of Educ., 78 F.3d. 579, 1996 WL 85122 (4th Cir. (W.Va.) 1996)
  • Spaulding v. Mingo County Bd. of Educ., 897 F.Supp. 284, 103 Ed.Law Rep. 756, 12 A.D.D.163 (S.D.W.Va. 1995)

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