Elliot Hicks
Elliot G. Hicks has practiced law in Charleston, West Virginia for thirty-four years with several of West Virginia’s most distinguished law firms. He now runs a solo mediation and arbitration practice under the name of Hicks Resolutions in Charleston.
Elliot has taken over one hundred jury trials to verdict in the state circuit courts and the federal district courts in the areas of products liability, premises liability, corporate and commercial litigation, insurance defense, and medical malpractice defense. He is in demand as a mediator in all parts of West Virginia.
Elliot was President of the West Virginia State Bar from 1998 to 1999.
He was elected a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and was a member of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel during his time in adversarial practice. He maintains the highest rating of “AV” ® with Martindale-Hubbell, and he is recognized by inclusion in the publications, Best Lawyers in America®, and Super Lawyers®.
Brenda Waugh
Brenda Waugh graduated from West Virginia University College of Law in 1987. After working as assistant prosecutor, counsel to Senate Judiciary and in private practice became concerned that clients, even when the won, did not seem happy with outcome. Also noticed that I was often unhappy with the day to day work and many of my colleagues seemed unhappy Brenda returned to graduate school 2007 and studied in field of conflict resolution. She began to research how much our work as lawyers has moved away from having judges make decisions to have settlement, through mediation or negotiation. At the same time, she was introduced to research on how lawyers’ source of unhappiness is sometimes based on the way we work, what we do. believe that there is a way to practice law and be healthy and happy but everyone needs to get on board. We are able to facilitate a meeting and also mediate any internal workplace conflicts. Eh revision goes without saying… Describe your business in one sentence: We provide an interactive programs for lawyers to guide them in how to practice law in a way to increase their satisfaction with their work as well as improve their overall physical, mental and emotional wellbeing by using tools of the mediator to solve problems and resolve conflict. Yes, that is a run on sentence. Essence Design style Design and logo style: calm business, with period of excitement.