Title: Managing Partner
Company: Patten, Wornom, Hatten & Diamonstein
Location: Newport News, VA United States
Honored Member
Achievements:
- Inductee, Worldwide Lifetime Achievement (2015)
- AV Preeminent® Attorney, Martindale-Hubbell® (25 Years)
- Designated Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers, Tidewater, VA (2015)
- Featured, Super Lawyers (2006-2015)
- Featured, “Norfolk Best Lawyers Personal Injury Litigation Lawyer of the Year,”
The Best Lawyers in America (2015) - Inductee, Elite American Lawyers (2015)
- Inductee, Lifetime Membership, Worldwide Registry (2015)
- Honoree, Top 10 Verdicts in the State of Virginia (2006-2012)
- Inductee, International Association of Trial Lawyers (2010)
- Recipient, Humanitarian Award, National Conference of Community
and Justice (1997) - First Recipient, Courageous Advocacy Award representing asbestos victims in Virginia, Virginia Trial Lawyers’ Association (1986)
- Board of Directors, Virginia Trial Lawyers’ Association
- Charter Fellow, American Board of Trial Advocates
- Co-Founder, Virginia Asbestos Victims, Inc.
- Co-Founder, Soundscapes
- Founder, Operation Santa
- Former Board Chairman, United Way of the Virginia Peninsula
- Former Member, Board of Trustees, Hampden-Sydney College
- Former Member, Board of Trustees, Lexington Theological Seminary
- Former Member, Board of Trustees, St. Andrews Episcopal School
- Former Member, Virginia Trial Lawyers Association
- Member of the American Association for Justice
- Member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers
- Member of The National Trial Lawyers
- Member of the Newport News Bar Association
- Member of the Southern Trial Lawyers Association
Designations:
- JD, Washington and Lee University
- Bachelor of Arts in History, Hampden-Sydney College