Debra Scudiere

Kay Casto & Chaney PLLC, Morgantown, USA

Debra Scudiere serves as the managing member for the Morgantown office and brings nearly 25 years of experience as an attorney. She has served as president of the West Virginia State Bar and also served as the president of the Southern Conference of Bar Presidents, an organization of bar presidents and other bar leaders from 18 southern states. Scudiere recently represented West Virginia to the American Bar Association's House of Delegates and has been named as a Fellow of the West Virginia Bar Foundation, Inc.

Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Ms. Scudiere is admitted to practice in the U. S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. She is a member of the West Virginia Bar Association, the Monongalia County Bar Association, the Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia, Inc., and the Defense Research Institute, Inc.

As experienced trial attorney, her practice consists of all areas of civil defense litigation, including alternate dispute resolution, insurance, malpractice, employment law, and personal injury. Ms. Scudiere teachs Pre-Trial Litigation at the West Virginia University, College of Law. She also has served as an adjunct lecturer in Trial Advocacy.

Ms. Scudiere attended West Virginia University, where she received her bachelor's degree magna cum laude in 1976. While attending the WVU College of Law, she was on the staff of the West Virginia Law Review and served as Research Editor of the Journal of College and University Law. She was President of the Marlyn Lugar Trial Association and a member of the Order of the Barrister and Phi Delta Phi. She received her J.D. degree in 1982.