Overview

Shuman McCuskey Slicer PLLC defends cities, counties, agencies, and other public entities across the Mid-Atlantic and Appalachian Highlands. With offices in Charleston and Morgantown, West Virginia and Winchester, Virginia, and licensed attorneys in West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, North Carolina, New York, and Washington, D.C., our firm is equipped to handle your state, municipal, and public utility litigation no matter where you are in the Mid-Atlantic or Appalachian regions.

We defend several public entities and municipalities, including local, regional, and state-level officials, law enforcement officers, cities, towns, state agencies, school districts, school boards, and school board personnel. Our public entity defense lawyers handle a full range of issues on behalf of the firm’s clients, including street and road claims, civil rights actions, police and first responders’ defense, municipal construction, landfill litigation, employment litigation, water distribution liability, public entity personal injury defense, property damage claims against public entities, and waste-water collection and treatment liability. Our state, municipal, and public utility litigation team can advise government entities effectively on these matters due to our attorneys’ government-related work experience, including a past member of the West Virginia Legislature and a former state Commissioner of Finance and Administration. Therefore, we have a firsthand, personal familiarity with the liability issues and challenges facing our clients and are better able to provide comprehensive advice across a broad spectrum of issues.

In addition to the mediation, arbitration, and litigation services we provide, our attorneys regularly advise local and state entities on current municipal government defense and state government defense issues, employment policies, and many other areas of potential risk.