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R. DEAN
HARTLEY
is one of the founding partners of the Wheeling, West Virginia law firm of Hartley O'Brien Parsons Thompson & Hill. He is a trial attorney with eighteen years experience successfully representing injured individuals. Mr. Hartley emphasizes the representation of workers who have been injured as a result of toxic substance exposures or industrial accidents. He is specifically interested in workers exposed to solvents and the development of cancers and blood diseases. He is presently Chairman of ATLA's Benzene/Leukemia Litigation Group which concentrates on understanding the toxicity of benzene and educating members on developing cases for individuals injured as a result of benzene exposure.
Mr. Hartley is interested in evidentiary issues surrounding expert witnesses in toxic exposure cases. Recognized for his
understanding of the issues, he has been an invited speaker on several national programs discussing the implications of the United States Supreme Court's Daubert decision in the toxic tort arena.
Mr. Hartley is also a member of the West Virginia Trial Lawyers Amicus Curiae Committee. He and Mr. O'Brien authored the
"friend of the court" brief in Bower v.
Westinghouse Electric wherein the West Virginia Supreme Court, following the reasoning of the WVTLA amicus brief, held that individuals exposed to toxic substances have a cause of action under West Virginia law for the recovery of medical monitoring costs, where it can be proven that such expenses are necessary and reasonably certain to be incurred as a proximate result of a defendant's tortious conduct.
He is married to the former Charlene Kobasko of Moundsville, West Virginia. The Hartley household consists of seven children between the
ages of eleven and twenty-five.
EDUCATION:
- West Virginia University College of Law (J.D. 1981)
- East Carolina University (B.S. 1978)
BARS & COURTS:
- West Virginia (1981)
- Pennsylvania (1991)
- Kentucky (1997)
- United States Courts of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- United States Courts of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- W.Va. Supreme Court
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court
- Kentucky Supreme Court
AFFILIATIONS:
- Association of Trial Lawyers of America
- Member, New York Academy of Sciences (2001-- )
- ATLA Benzene Litigation Group, Chair (1998- )
- ATLA Railroad Section
- Roscoe Pound Foundation, Fellow
- ATLA Presidents Club Member
- ATLA "M" Club Member
- West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association
- WVTLA Amicus Curiae Committee (1998- )
- Kentucky Academy of Trial Attorneys
- American Bar Association
- West Virginia Bar Association
- Kentucky Bar Association
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
AREAS OF PRACTICE:
- Toxic Torts, Products Liability, FELA
PAPERS PRESENTED:
- R. Dean Hartley, "Products Liability: Evidentiary Issues," West Virginia Continuing Legal Education Seminar Products Liability, West Virginia
University College of Law, Morgantown, West Virginia, October 6-7, 1989, Course Materials, pp. 140-199.
- R. Dean Hartley, "Asbestos: Theories of Liability and Punitive Damages," West Virginia Continuing Legal Education Seminar Legal & Medical Aspects of Disease of the Lung, West Virginia
University College of Law, Morgantown, West Virginia, November 16-17, 1990, Course Materials, pp. 318-347.
- R. Dean Hartley, "Cross Examination of Expert Witnesses," West Virginia Continuing Legal Education Seminar Examination of Witnesses & Jury Argument, West Virginia University
College of Law, Morgantown, West Virginia, November 20-21, 1992, Course Materials, pp. 105-118.
- R. Dean Hartley, "Current Mandolidis Litigation", West Virginia Continuing Legal Education Seminar Litigation, Canaan
Valley State Park, Davis, West Virginia, February 26-27, 1993, Course Materials, pp. 121-156.
- R. Dean Hartley, "Chromosome Changes in Benzene-exposed Workers", 1996 Annual Convention, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Benzene Litigation Group, Boston, Massachusetts, July
27-31, 1996.
- R. Dean Hartley, "Solvent Exposure on the Railroad", 1997 Annual Convention, Association of Trial Lawyers of America,
Railroad Section, San Diego, California, July 19-23, 1997, ATLA, National College of Advocacy, Reference Materials, Vol. II, pp. 1902-1917.
- R. Dean Hartley, "Multiple Myeloma in the Railroad Industry", 1998 Annual Convention, Association of Trial Lawyers
of America, Railroad Section, Washington, D. C., July 10-14, 1998, ATLA, National College of Advocacy, Reference Materials, Vol. II, pp. 2297-2311.
- R. Dean Hartley, "Sampling Methodology:Testing and Measurement", Mealey's Daubert & Expert Admissibility
Conference, Amelia Island, Florida, February 25-26, 1999, pp. 471-486.
- R. Dean Hartley, "Daubert on the Railroad", 1999 Annual Convention, Association of Trial Lawyers of America,
Railroad Section, San Francisco, California, July 17-21, 1999, ATLA, National College of Advocacy, Reference Materials, Vol. II, pp. 1517-1525
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