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RAYMOND L. PALMER SR. ESQ.


EDUCATION:
    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW, Charlottesville, Virginia
    Juris Doctor, May 1981

    VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY, Richmond, Virginia
    Bachelor of Arts, History / Government, June 1978


EXPERIENCE:

    • OWNER, THE LAW OFFICES of RAYMOND L. PALMER & ASSOCIATES
    January 2007 - Present


    • PARTNER, PALMER, MASSIE & HOLLEY LAW FIRM, P.C.
    January 2000 -December 2006

      Managing Partner, 2002 – 2003, 2006
      Negotiate business and service contracts
      Develop and implement marketing strategies
      Litigate, mediate and settle personal injury cases since 1981
      Represent persons in criminal and traffic courts since 1981
      Advise and represent bankruptcy clients since 1998

    • SENIOR PARTNER, THE PALMER LAW FIRM
    May 1981 -December 1999
      Managing Partner
      Negotiate all business and service contracts
      Determine and implement all marketing strategies
      Represent personal injury clients
      Represent clients charged with criminal offenses
      Obtained a six million five hundred thousand ( $6,500,000.00) products liability award for an injured client

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
    • Member, Virginia State Bar
    • Member, American Bar Association
    • Member, Old Dominion Bar Association
    • Member, Virginia Trial Lawyers Association
    • Member, American Trial Lawyers Association
    • Associate Minister, St. John Baptist Church, Williamsburg, Virginia
    • Seminary Student, Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University
    • Member, Million Dollar Advocates Forum

SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
    • Products Liability: six million five hundred thousand dollars ($6,500,000.00) awarded to injured client when a smoke detector failed to alert her of a fire in her home.
    • Tractor Trailer Accident: One million nine hundred fifty thousand dollars ($1,950,000.00) awarded to an eighty one (81) year old client
    • Defective chair: $1,450,000.00 awarded to client who set in a defective chair and was injured.
    • Millions of dollars awarded to personal injury clients
    • Developed law firm strategy to sue drunk drivers who injure clients for up to $350,000.00 each, for punitive damages
    • Member, Million Dollar Advocates Forum: An exclusive legal organization, whose members have either settled, mediated or litigated at least one personal injury case for one million dollars ($1,000,000.00) or more.