Legal Services & Lawyers

The Law Office of David Schles will provide personal representation. If you are facing criminal charges, you need an experienced and aggressive criminal defense lawyer, not a secretary or a paralegal responding for a lawyer who does not communicate directly with you. At the Law Office of David Schles, David Schles will be personally available to keep you fully informed about all aspects of your case and involve you in all important decisions concerning your case.

David Schles attended West Virginia University (B.A. Political Science and History, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), George Washington University, and the West Virginia University College of Law (J.D., Order of the Coif, Order of Barristers, Managing Editor-- West Virginia Law Review, President-- Lugar Trial Association, National Trial Team, West Virginia Invitational Trial Competition Champion).

David Schles was admitted to the West Virginia State Bar and to the bars of the United States District Courts for the Southern and Northern Districts of West Virginia, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. He also has extensive experience in trials and appeals in both state and federal courts and has handled hundreds of cases involving a wide range of matters as a criminal defense lawyer

Mr. McGinley is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer. He represents clients in personal injury cases, commercial and business litigation, and class actions.

Mr. McGinley was raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, and attended college at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, receiving an A.B. degree in 1987. He studied law at Oxford University (Keble College) in Oxford, England, where he obtained an honours degree in Jurisprudence. After obtaining his law degree, Mr. McGinley worked at the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia as a law clerk, from 1990 through 1993. Mr. McGinley clerked both for Chief Justice Thomas E. McHugh, and Justice Thomas B. Miller. From 1994 through 1995, Mr. McGinley was a law clerk to the Hon. Charles H. Haden, II, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. He has been with the firm since October of 1995.

Since joining the firm, Mr. McGinley has considerable trial experience. He also has successfully prosecuted many appeals to the Supreme Court of West Virginia.

Mr. McGinley has been a member of the Governing Council of the West Virginia Law Institute since 2001. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the American Association for Justice. He also is a member of both the West Virginia and Kanawha County Bar Associations. Mr. McGinley has lectured media organizations on First Amendment and defamation issues.

Mr. McGinley and his wife, Ana G. Marino, have two sons, Liam Patrick McGinley, and Colin Sean McGinley. They reside in Charleston.