Peter A. Pentony is a partner with WilliamsFord. He provides peace of mind to his clients by listening carefully to their concerns and by digging out the details of cases that help injured victims hold the people and companies that harmed them responsible.
He has spent his career helping local people with their legal problems. After graduation from law school, he returned to Jefferson County, West Virginia, where he grew up and where his family ties go back generations. He continues to handle cases in West Virginia, and after joining WilliamsFord, he has expanded his personal injury and medical malpractice work into Virginia as well.
He exclusively represents injured people and their families in personal injury, wrongful death, and medical malpractice cases. Pete has over twenty-five years of civil litigation experience, including injury and wrongful death, insurance law, environmental contamination, real estate litigation, and serious workplace injury. He has substantial experience with complex, multi-defendant cases.
He received his law degree in 1998 from the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University. In law school, he was the editor-in-chief of the Dickinson Journal of International Law. He graduated with honors from West Virginia University in 1995, majoring in English with minors in Philosophy and Spanish.
Pete primarily handles cases in state and federal court in Jefferson, Berkeley, Morgan, Hampshire, Mineral, and Hardy Counties, West Virginia, as well as across Virginia and in western Maryland.
- West Virginia Association for Justice
- Virginia Trial Lawyers Association
- American Association for Justice
- Winchester/Frederick County Bar Association
- Eastern Panhandle (WV) Bar Association
- The National Trial Lawyers Top 100
- United States Supreme Court
- Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
- Virginia Supreme Court
- West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
- Maryland Supreme Court
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
- United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia
- National Crime Victim Bar Association Crime Liability Reporter Featured Case, “National Fraternal Organization Liable After Fatal Shooting at Local Lodge,” 8, No. 4 (April/May 2003)
- National Crime Victim Bar Association Crime Liability Reporter Featured Case, “Casino Settles Case Arising Out of Unlimited Free Drinks Policy,” Vol. 10, No. 1 (2005)
- 14th highest verdict in the Northeast 2020, recognized by New York Law Journal/Verdict Search
- 2020 Virginia Trial Lawyers Association Advocacy Seminar, “A Stunning Plaintiff’s Verdict During COVID”
- 2021 West Virginia Association for Justice Mid-Winter Seminar, “Trial Advocacy in the Time of COVID: Strategies and Tactics to Maximize Your Client’s Jury Verdict”
- Eastern Panhandle (WV) Bar Association Board of Directors (2009 – 2022)
- Jefferson County Youth Soccer League volunteer coach (2009 – 2016)
- Tri-County Soccer Club volunteer coach (2017 – 2018)
- Virginia Trial Lawyers Association Co-Chair Amicus Committee (2022 – 2023)