John Basilone

Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Partner, Goss & Fentress

Born: Fairfax, Virginia, September 10, 1963

Statement of Practice:
Law practice throughout Hampton Roads focusing on personal injury matters, with an emphasis on litigation and trials.

Membership:

Virginia State Bar (1988)
West Virginia State Bar (1988)
District of Columbia Bar (2005)
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia
United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
United States Supreme Court
Virginia Beach Bar Association
Virginia Trial Lawyers Association

Education:

Hampden-Sydney College (B.A., 1985)
Hampden-Sydney, Virginia

Marshall-Wythe School of Law (J.D., 1988)
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia

Honors:

ABA Regional Moot Trial Team
Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company Award in Unfair Trade Practices
Who.s Who in American Colleges and Universities
Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) National Leadership Society

Biography:

Trial Lawyer . in private practice for over 20 years
Resident of Virginia Beach since 1991
Formerly with Moody, Strople, Kloeppel, Basilone & Higginbotham in Portsmouth from 1991 to 2007
Associate, McNeer, Highland & McMunn, Clarksburg, West Virginia from 1988 to 1991
Passed two (2) bar exams in the same week (Virginia and West Virginia) in July 1988
Has tried cases throughout Virginia and also in Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Has litigated cases in most states and in numerous federal courts in the eastern, midwestern and southern United States