Rodney L. Bean maintains a broad employment litigation and counseling practice and leads the firm’s Appellate Practice Group. He has represented clients in various state and federal trial courts and the United States Courts of Appeals for the 3rd and 4th Circuits.

AREAS OF CONCENTRATION

• Appellate
• Labor & employment litigation
• Wage payment litigation
• Employer counseling

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1994         Steptoe & Johnson
1992-93    Assistant Attorney General, State of West Virginia
1993-94    Law Clerk, Honorable Charles H. Haden, II, U. S. District Court

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Defense Research Institute
• Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia

INDUSTRY / CIVIC MEMBERSHIPS

• West Virginia Health Care Human Resources Association
• Society for Human Resource Management 
• West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association
• Independent Oil and Gas Association of West Virginia

AWARDS / HONORS

• Chambers USA America’s Leading Lawyers for Business
• The Best Lawyers in America®
• Super Lawyers®

PUBLICATIONS 

• West Virginia's Very Own Celotex Trilogy; A Series Of Recent Opinions By The Supreme Court Of Appeals Of West Virginia Reveals That The Rumors Of Rule 56's Death Were Greatly Exaggerated, 98 W.Va. L. Rev. 571 (1996)