PRACTICE AREAS
Civil Litigation/Insurance Defense
Longshore/DBA/ Non Appropriated Funds Act Defense
Municipal Law and 1983 Actions
Virginia Workers Compensation Act
EDUCATION
College of William & Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, (J.D., 1992)
Editorial Board of the Institute of Bill of Rights Journal
Moot Court
Wake Forest University, (B.A., cum laude, Politics, 1988)
BAR ADMISSIONS
Virginia
North Carolina
COURT ADMISSIONS
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
U.S. Claims Court
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Mr. Hedrick has been representing Employers, Carriers and Municipal Employees for over thirty years. He specializes in complex personal injury claims. He has tried over 350 civil jury trials and well over 500 cases under the Longshore Act and Defense Base Act.
Mr. Hedrick has developed a national practice assisting clients in evaluating how to defend these cases and is recognized as one of the premier trial lawyers in Virginia.
Mr. Hedrick is a member of the Newport News, Virginia, North Carolina, and American Bar Associations, the Virginia and North Carolina State Bars, the Defense Research Institute, and the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys.
He is past board member, treasurer and president of the Newport News Bar Association. He is the past president of the Virginia Chapter of the American Board of Trial Attorneys, an invitation only national organization for trial lawyers who have served as lead counsel for civil jury trials.
He is AV rated by Martindale Hubbell, the highest certification.
He is also a retired Colonel from the United States Army reserve after having served thirty years on active duty and in the Army Reserve. He served in a variety of position with increasing responsibility culminating as the Staff Judge Advocate of the 80th Training Command in Richmond, Virginia. As a reservist he specialized in conducting and supervising administrative investigations of EEOC complaints, ADA discrimination charges, ethics violations, and complex accidents and injuries. In final assignment he directly supervised a total of 14 legal professionals, and provided technical guidance to a total of 50 legal professionals spread throughout the continental United States, while also actively practicing law with MMWH. He also served as Legal Advisor and Ethics Counselor to the Commander, a two star general.
Certification Mark Reference
CV, BV and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies.
Rating Explanation
Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the Judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell Ratings fall into two categories – legal ability and general ethical standards.