Willard Moody Jr

The Moody Law Firm, Inc.

Willard Moody Jr Personal Injury Lawyer

The Moody Law Firm, Inc.

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Willard J. Moody, Jr. is the President and senior attorney in The Moody Law Firm. The Moody Law Firm, Inc. is a Virginia law firm headquartered in Portsmouth, VA. Mr. Moody has been representing railroad workers and handling Federal Employers’ Liability Act claims since 1983 when he graduated from the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond, Virginia. Since that time, he has been licensed to practice law in Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Florida. He is also admitted to practice in numerous Federal courts throughout the United States, U.S. Courts of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. He is past President of the Portsmouth Bar Association, a member of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, American Association for Justice (formerly The American Trial Lawyers Association), as well as past President of the Academy of Railway Labor Attorneys (ARLA). He currently continues to serve on the Board of Directors for the Academy of Railway Labor Attorneys and has served on the Committee for Occupational Diseases for ARLA in the past. He has achieved the highest rating available to an attorney with the Martindale Hubble Peer Review ratings for preeminent legal ability and overall professional excellence.

Mr. Moody’s practice includes Federal Employers’ Liability Act (FELA) claims on behalf of railroad workers, which includes traumatic injury claims, occupational disease claims, asbestos claims, cancer claims, and mesothelioma claims. In addition to railroad cases, Mr. Moody and his firm handle all types of product liability cases, trucking liability cases, medical malpractice cases, and auto negligence cases. Mr. Moody heads up the Mass Tort division of the law firm, which handles pharmaceutical cases against drug companies for bad drugs and medical devices, including Vioxx, Reglan, Levoquin, Ziacam, Acutane, Avandia, Fosamax and other pharmaceutical claims, and defective Hip/Shoulder/Knee/Hernia Mesh/Vaginal Mesh Implant cases.

Mr. Moody was selected by the American Trial Lawyers to co-author the chapter on FELA claims in the ATLA publication “ATLA’s Litigating Tort Cases.” He is a member of the AAJ Litigation groups regarding Avandia, Reglan, and DePuy Hip Implants. He is also a member of the I’anson/Hoffman Inns of Court.

Willard J. Moody, Jr. was also selected for membership to the prestigious Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Established in 1993, the Million Dollar and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum are one of the most prestigious groups of trial lawyers in the United States. Its qualifying members have litigated and won million, multi-million, and billion-dollar cases.

Mr. Moody was most recently selected as a 2017 recipient of the TOP 10 Personal Injury Attorneys in the State of Virginia by The National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys.