Roger A. "Skip" Ritchie, Jr.

Roger A. "Skip" Ritchie, Jr. practices primarily in the area of automobile and tractor trailer collisions, product liability, and social security disability law.

Skip grew up in the Shenandoah Valley and attended Spotswood High School. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1991, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha. He received his law degree from California Western School of Law in San Diego, California.

Roger A. "Skip" Ritchie, Jr. has been in practice since 1996, focusing his practice exclusively in representation of the seriously injured and ill. Currently, his concentration has evolved into limited and specialized areas of the law, in particular personal injury cases involving wrongful death, auto and tractor trailer collisions, products liability, and social security disability claims.

Skip has concentrated his practice in civil litigation involving trial work. He is a member of the National Organization for Social Security Claimant's Representation, the North American Brain Injury Society, the American Association of Justice, the Virginia Trial Lawyer's Association, and the West Virginia Association of Justice.

Skip gives back to the community by his involvement in volunteer work to include Central Valley Habitat for Humanity Board of Directors, Chair of Harrisonburg-Rockingham Medical/Legal Liaison Committee, and missions to Peru and Mexico.

Skip was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Virginia in 1996, and the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia in 1997. He practices before the U.S. District Courts of the Western District of Virginia and the U.S. Districts of the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia. He has been admitted to practice before the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar and the West Virginia State Bar, the Harrisonburg-Rockingham County Bar, and the Staunton/Augusta County Bar Association.

Education

  • B.A., History, University of Virginia (1991)
  • J.D., California Western School of Law (1996)

Bar Admissions:

  • Virginia
  • West Virginia
  • U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of West Virginia

Professional Memberships:

  • Harrison-Rockingham County Bar Association
  • Staunton County Bar Association
  • Waynesboro County Bar Association
  • Augusta County Bar Association
  • Virginia State Bar
  • Virginia Trial Lawyers Association
  • West Virginia State Bar
  • West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association
  • Christian Legal Society