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Jeffrey A. Breit

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Virginia Beach,  VA  U.S.A.
www.breitdrescher.com
Phone757-670-3888

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Practice Areas

  • Accidents
  • Automobile Accidents and Injuries
  • Automobile Negligence
  • Bodily Injury
  • Brain Injury
  • Head Injury
  • Motor Vehicle Accidents and Injuries
  • Toxic Torts
  • Plaintiffs Personal Injury
  • Medical Negligence
  • Severe Burns
  • Slip and Fall
  • Spinal Injury
  • Vehicular Homicide
  • Wrongful Death
 
Contact InfoTelephone: 757-670-3888
Fax: 757-670-3895
http://www.breitdrescher.com
 
University Tulane University of Louisiana, B.A., 1977
 
Law SchoolTulane University of Louisiana, J.D., 1979
 
Admitted1979, Virginia, Louisiana, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana and Eastern District of Virginia and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth and Fifth Circuits; 1981, U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit; 1986, U.S. Supreme Court; 1988, District of Columbia; 1990, North Carolina and New York
 
Memberships Virginia Beach and Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar Associations; Virginia, North Carolina, Louisiana, New York and District of Columbia Bar Associations; American Bar Association; Maritime Law Association of the United States; American Association for Justice (Member, Board of Governors, 1988—; Fellow, National College of Advocacy); Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers; President, Operation Smile, 1986-1988; Member, Board of Editors, Maritime Law Reporter, Butterworth, 1986-1988; Virginia Trial Lawyers Association (Board of Governors, 1983-1993 and President, 1998-1999).
 
LanguagesEnglish
 
BornNorfolk, Virginia, April 14, 1955
 
Biography

Adjunct Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School (2005—). Editor-in-Chief, Tulane Maritime Law Review, 1978-1979. Author: "Wrongful Death-Wage Earner," Virginia Trial Lawyers, 1986; "Personal Injury and Death in Maritime Law," Virginia Trial Lawyers, 1987; "Premises Liability," Lawyers Alert, 1989; "Crafting the Closing and Rebuttal Argument & Closing Argument," Association of Trial Lawyers, Reno, NV, October, 1992; "Proving Loss of Society & Services in Wrongful Death," Association of Trial Lawyers, New Orleans, LA, April, 1993. "Payback of Worker's Compensation and Health Care Liens," Trial Advocacy Seminar, Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, 1994; "Excessive and Inadequate Verdicts," Trial Advocacy Seminar, Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, 1994; "Thoracic Outlet Syndrome," ATLA, March 1993, Colorado; "Cross Examination of Experts and Other Ways to Lose a Case," ATLA, March 1993; "The Thing They Didn't Teach (in law school) - Now I Know that the Following Are Bad Things To Do," VLTA Annual Convention, April 1996. Author: "Tort Law Update - Virginia Supreme Court, VLTA Annual Convention, March 1998; "Premises Liability (3rd Party Criminal Attacks) Inadequate Security," Louisiana Trial Lawyers /association, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 1998; "Negligent Hiring and Retention in Violent Crime Cases," ATLA, NCA Premises Liability Seminar, Phoenix, Arizona, February 1999; "Deflating Defense Counsel's Arguments at Voir Dire," ATLA, July 1999; "Responding to Difficult Courtroom Situations: Ethical Considerations," "Direct Examination," and "Closing Argument," ATLA NCA Trial Advocacy College, Harvard Law School, March 1999; "Using the Jury's Imagination to Maximize Damages," New Jersey Trial Lawyers Annual Convention, April 2003; "Supreme Court Update, 2003," VTLA Annual Convention, 2003. "The Wired Courtroom," Virginia Bar Association, January 2004; "Conflict Between Attorney and Client on Settlement v. Trial," Virginia Trial Lawyers Annual Convention, April 2004; "Improving the Jury Using Juror Questions," ATLA Annual Convention, July 2004; "Dealing with Defenses," NABIS Annual Conference, Vail, CO, September 2004; "Tips to Motivate a Jury in a Traumatic Brain Injury Case," VTLA Brain Injury Retreat, Richmond, VA, October 2004; "Damages in Opening Statement," New Approaches to Damages Seminar, ATLA, New Orleans, LA, October 2004. Author: "The Things They Didn't Teach You in Law School," ATLA Annual Convention, Toronto, July 2005; Enhancing Damages by Proving a Defendant's Bad Conduct," ATLA Annual Convention, Toronto, July 2005; "Opening Statements," VTLA Annual Convention, April 2006; "Use of Demonstrative Evidence for Direct and Cross Examination: Entertaining Story With Pictures and Words," North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, Sunset Beach, North Carolina, June 16, 2007; "Use of Demonstrative Evidence for Direct & Cross Examination," Kentucky Justice Association, September 2007; "Tort Law Update," VTLA Annual Convention, March 2008.

 
Reported CasesAcuar v. Letourneau, 206 Va. 180, 531 S.E. 2d 316, 2000 Va. LEXIS 107 (2000); Virginia Electric & Power Company v. Dungee, 258 Va. 235, 520 S.E. 2d 164 (1999).
 
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Jeffrey A. Breit
Breit Drescher Imprevento & Walker, PC
600 22nd Street, Suite 402
Virginia Beach, VA 23451




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