Scott Curnutte
Curnutte Law
Experienced trial attorney who has tried cases in state and federal courts throughout W.Va., and pursued appeals in the 4th Circuit and the Supreme Court of Appeals. Focused primarily upon representation of plaintiffs, but business litigation is another area of concentration.
Recent cases:
Currently engaged in 40 cases on behalf of people defrauded by a dealership which did not payoff liens against consumers' trade-in's.
Currently engaged in the second round of 26 cases on behalf of people defrauded by a different dealership involving similar facts.
In 2007, represented 21 former employees throughout W.Va. of a big-box retailer who asserted they were victims of age discrimination.
In 2006, represented the family of a miner killed in a roof fall in an underground coal mine.
In 2005, represented the family of a miner killed in a roof fall in an underground coal mine.
- Family Law
- Adoption, Child Custody, Child Support, Father's Rights, Guardianship & Conservatorship, Paternity, Prenups & Marital Agreements, Restraining Orders, Same Sex Family Law
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Social Security Disability
- Car Accidents
- Public Benefits
- West Virginia
- 4th Circuit
- Adjunct Professor
- West Virginia University College of Law
- - Current
- Managing Attorney
- Curnutte Law
- - Current
- Adjunct Professor
- West Virginia University, College of Business & Economics
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- Law Clerk
- US District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia
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- West Virginia University College of Law
- J.D.
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- Honors: Articles Editor, West Virginia Law Review
- Wake Forest University
- B.A. | Political Science
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- Kaufman Award
- West Virginia State Bar
- West Virginia Association for Justice
- Board of Governors
- - Current
- West Virginia Law Institute
- President
- - Current
- West Virginia State Bar
- Member
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- West Virginia University, College of Law
- Member, Visiting Committee
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- Recommendations for Criminal Sentencing Law Reform For the State of West Virginia: A Report of the West Virginia Law Institute to the West Virginia Legislature
- West Virginia Law Institute
- Selected Readings and Materials on the Law of Intestate Succession and Statutory Forced Share
- West Virginia Law Institute
- Reforming the Law of Intestate Succession and Elective Share: New Solutions to Old Problems
- 93 West Virginia Law Review 61
- Preventing Spousal Disinheritance: An Equitable Solution
- 92 West Virginia Law Review 441