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Mary Elizabeth Sherwin

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T (757) 624.3244
F (757) 624.3169
mesherwin@kaufcan.com

Mary Beth is a partner in the firm's Medical Malpractice Section and also serves as a member of the firm's Recruiting Committee.

Practice Areas

Representative Matters

  • Counsels hospitals, nursing homes, physicians and other health care professionals on risk management issues, and handles guardianship and medical treatment proceedings
  • Defends health care professionals when their depositions are requested as treating providers
  • Represents health care professionals before health regulatory boards, including the Virginia Board of Medicine and the Virginia Board of Nursing - most recently defended physician who was full exonerated by Board despite receiving letter of reprimand from hospital for endangering resident
  • Handles the Medical Malpractice Team’s cases involving female health care professionals
  • Second-chaired eight medical malpractice trials, argued major motions and examined/cross-examined key witnesses. Highlights include the following:
    • Defended a complex medical malpractice case involving an air embolism that resulted in severe injury to the patient who remains in a persistent vegetative state.  The other defendants settled immediately prior to trial, but the plaintiffs nevertheless elected to proceed against our physician client.  After six days of evidence, the judge declared a mistrial due to the lack of consensus. A year later, we tried the case again and received a defense verdict. 
    • Successfully defended a surgeon and his practice in litigation that had been ongoing for nearly four years. Plaintiff requested relief in the amount of $1.5 million. After five days and most evidentiary rulings made in plaintiff’s favor, the jury found for the defendants.

Recognition and honors

  • Virginia Rising Stars; Law & Politics, 2008-2012
  • Law Clerk to The Honorable Rebecca Beach Smith, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
  • Editorial Board; William & Mary Law Review
  • William & Mary National Trial Team
  • Wellesley College Scholar

Associations

  • Virginia Bar Association
  • Federal Bar Association
  • Virginia State Bar
  • Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar Association
  • Norfolk Blocker YMCA; Board of Directors

Admissions

  • U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Education

  • Columbia University; Paris France, 1996
  • Wellesley College; A.B., cum laude, 1997
  • College of William & Mary School of Law; J.D., 2000

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