Peter A. Pentony is a partner with WilliamsFord. He exclusively represents injured people and their families in personal injury, wrongful death, and medical malpractice cases. Pete has over twenty years of civil litigation experience, including injury and wrongful death, insurance law, environmental contamination, real estate litigation, and serious workplace injury.
Pete has substantial experience in tavern liability cases (“dram shop” litigation), involving negligent service of alcohol and inadequate security. Two of his cases have been featured in the National Crime Victims Bar Association Reporter, and he was part of the trial team that obtained the highest wrongful death jury verdict in Jefferson County history, a $2.8 million verdict for the parents of a young man who was killed while working as a flagman in a construction zone.
He received his law degree in 1998 from the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University. In law school, he was the editor-in-chief of the Dickinson Journal of International Law. He graduated with honors from West Virginia University in 1995, majoring in English with minors in Philosophy and Spanish.
Pete handles cases in state and federal court in Jefferson, Berkeley, Morgan, Hampshire, Mineral, and Hardy Counties, West Virginia, as well as in Virginia and western Maryland.
