Willard J. Moody, Jr.

Practice Areas: Personal Injury, FELA, Mesothelioma Attorney, Asbestos Litigation, Products Liability, Pharmaceutical Litigation

Education: University of Richmond, J.D., 1983; Elon College, B.A., 1979

Admitted: 1983, Virginia, U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court; 1997, North Carolina, West Virginia and Florida

Memberships: Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar Association; Portsmouth Bar Association (Past President, 1996-1997); Virginia State Bar; West Virginia State Bar; North Carolina State Bar; The Florida Bar; Virginia Trial Lawyers Association (VTLA); American Association for Justice; Academy of Rail Labor Attorneys (ARLA).

Mr. Moody, Jr. has acheived the highest Martindale-Hubbell peer review rating for preeminent legal ability and overall professional excellence.

BIOGRAPHY

Willard J. Moody, Jr. is a senior attorney in The Moody Law Firm. The Moody Law Firm, Inc. is a Virginia law firm headquatered 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 the Academy of Railway Labor Attorneys (ARLA).  He currently serves 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 claims on behalf of railroad workers, which includes traumatic injury claims, occupational disease clams, 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 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.