Eric Hayhurst
Founder | Hayhurst Law PLLC
Eric Hayhurst is a car accidents, trucking accidents and wrongful death trial lawyer and founder of Hayhurst Law PLLC in Westover, West Virginia. J.D., West Virginia University College of Law (2009).
Meet Eric
Eric Hayhurst founded Hayhurst Law PLLC in 2017 and represents people seriously injured through the negligence or recklessness of others in Morgantown, Monongalia County and nearby communities in West Virginia. Licensed in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, he handles car, trucking, motorcycle and pedestrian crashes, medical malpractice and birth injury, premises liability, workplace injury and wrongful death cases, along with employment law and criminal defense matters.
Hayhurst graduated from West Virginia University in 2005 with a political science degree and earned his law degree from the WVU College of Law in 2009, finishing in the top 10 percent of his class. He served on the Moot Court Board and received several CALI awards. He was admitted in West Virginia in 2009 and in Pennsylvania in 2014.
He is a life member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and holds an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell. He is a past president of the Monongalia County Bar Association and has chaired the Young Lawyers Section Executive Committee of the West Virginia State Bar. Away from work he officiates high school basketball and baseball games.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- J.D., West Virginia University College of Law, 2009
- B.A., Political Science, West Virginia University, 2005
- West Virginia, 2009
- Pennsylvania, 2014
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, 2009
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, 2010
Practice Areas
- Monongalia County Bar Association (Past President)
- West Virginia State Bar Young Lawyers Section (Chairperson, Executive Committee)
- Million Dollar Advocates Forum (Life Member)
- Top 100, The National Trial Lawyers
- AV Preeminent Rating, Martindale-Hubbell
- Super Lawyers Rising Stars (2014–2021)
- Life Member, Million Dollar Advocates Forum
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