Michael Imprevento - Virginia Beach, VA

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Hofstra University School of Law, Hempstead, New York
    J.D.

• Non Legal Education

  • Fordham University
    B.A.
    Major: History

Current Employment Position(s)

• Of Counsel

Past Positions

• United States Navy, Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG), Lieutenant, 1982 - 1986

Classes and Seminars

• Lecturer, Strategies for Success in Personal Injury Cases in Virginia (Spring 1994, 1995)
  
• Lecturer, Premises Liability: Preparation and Trial of a Difficult Case in Virginia (Fall 1995)
  
• Chairman, Moderator, Virginia Trial Lawyers Association Advocacy Seminar (Fall 1995)
  
• Chairman, Moderator, Virginia Poverty Law Seminar “Virginia Discovery” (1995)
  
• Lecturer, Products Liability Update, Virginia Trial Lawyers Annual Convention (1999)

Published Works

Articles

• Author, “Exclusions or Disclaimers of Warranties: How to Preserve the Warranty Cause of Action,” Virginia Trial Lawyers Association Products Liability Retreat (October 2000)
  
• Author, “The Economist,” The Journal of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association (Fall 1992)
  
• Author, “Household Product Liability as a Household Name,” Virginia Trial Lawyers Journal (Fall 1997)
  
• Author, “Damage Issues Unique to Products Liability Cases,” The Journal of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association (Fall 1998)
  
• Author, “A Comparative Analysis of Warranty, Negligence, Strict Liability and Virginia’s Theories of Recovery for Product Defect, ” Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, Products Liability Retreat (October 1998)
  
• Author, “The Virginia Consumer Expectations Test for Product Defect: What Is It and Where Did It Come From?” Virginia Trial Lawyers Association Products Liability Retreat (October 1997)
• Author, “Kumho Tire: A Study of the User of Expert Testimony in Federal Court in a Products Liability Case,” The Journal of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, Volume 12, Number 1 (Winter 1999-2000)
• Author, “Depositions of Experts in the Post-Daubert/Kumho Tire World,” The Journal of Virginia Trial Lawyers, Volume 14, Number 2 (Spring 2002); Reprinted: Journal of the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, Number 478 (October 2002)
• Author, “It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It: The Current Virginia Standard of Admissibility of Expert Testimony is Superior to Daubert, and Our Gate Should Be Closed to Its Principles,” Virginia State Bar Litigation News (Winter 2003)

Bar Admissions

• Virginia Supreme Court, 1984
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 1986
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia, 1986
• U.S. District Court Western District of Virginia, 1998
• New York, 1983

Other Affiliations

• Virginia Trial Lawyers Association (Vice Chair to Products Liability Section) American Association for Justice
• Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Association
• American Bar Association (Litigation Section)