I have been practicing law since 1982.  I attended the University of Louisville on a baseball scholarship and received my undergraduate degree in 1978. After playing a year of professional baseball, I entered the University of South Carolina Law School. I graduated from the University of South Carolina and did a clerkship with a Federal Judge in Norfolk, Virginia for one year.  Obtaining a clerkship position with a Federal Judge is not only valuable as further education prior to beginning your legal career, but it is an extremely competitive position. Each Federal Judge is only allowed to hire two clerks per year. Only a select group of law school graduates are in a position to fill those clerkship slots every year.

After working in Federal Court for a year, I began my career with a local law firm in the Virginia Beach area. Three years later, I, along with several other attorneys from that firm, began the firm of Shuttleworth, Ruloff, Swain, Haddad & Morecock.  I have spent my career representing folks who have been injured either through automobile accidents, medical malpractice, or by some defective product.  I, along with my partner, Doug Hornsby, were the attorneys in a medical malpractice case which resulted in the largest medical malpractice wrongful death verdict ever rendered up to that time by a jury in Virginia.

I am married and the father of six children.  I am active in the community in working with various children’s organizations, including coaching and participating in numerous school activities.