Practice Expertise

  • Appellate Litigation
  • Asbestos Litigation Defense
  • Asbestos Litigation
  • Battle Group - Litigation

Areas of Practice

  • Appellate Litigation
  • Asbestos Litigation
  • Asbestos Litigation Defense
  • Battle Group - Litigation
  • Battle Group-Litigation
  • Chemical
  • Deliberate Intent Litigation
  • Energy Law
  • ERISA & Managed Care
  • Litigation
  • Litigation - The Battle Group
  • Product Liability Litigation
  • Toxic Tort Litigation
  • View More

Profile

Ms. Durst's primary areas of practice are toxic tort and product liability litigation.

Bar Admissions
West Virginia State Bar
State Bar of Georgia
United States Supreme Court
West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
United States Tax Court

Education

  • University of Kentucky, B.S., with distinction, 1988
  • Wake Forest University, J.D., cum laude, 1991

Areas of Practice

  • Appellate Litigation
  • Asbestos Litigation
  • Asbestos Litigation Defense
  • Battle Group - Litigation
  • Battle Group-Litigation
  • Chemical
  • Deliberate Intent Litigation
  • Energy Law
  • ERISA & Managed Care
  • Litigation
  • Litigation - The Battle Group
  • Product Liability Litigation
  • Toxic Tort Litigation

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments
  • Account Manager for E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
  • Defense of a series of large toxic tort matters for corporate client in federal court
  • Defense of class action toxic tort and environmental matter for large corporate client
  • Defense of wrongful death, employer deliberate intent, toxic tort and product liability matters in state and federal courts
  • Defense of asbestos and silica premises and product liability defendants
  • Responsible for document collection and organization of nationwide product liability litigation matter
  • Defense of general litigation matters, including commercial, employment and labor law, and consumer rights



  • Professional Activities and Experience

    Distinctions

    • Recognized by Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business in General Commercial Litigation
    • Nominated by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America in the areas of Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants


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