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The law firm of Koonz, McKenney, Johnson & DePaolis, LLP represents clients from Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia in all aspects of personal injury litigation. For over 25 years our attorneys have protected the rights of workers and have spoken for the victims harmed by substandard medical care, defective products, and unsafe work places. We represent people who have been injured in auto accidents, construction site accidents, as a result of medical negligence, and through exposure to harmful substances such as asbestos, silica, lead paint, or defective products. Our attorneys are at the top of their profession and offer unparalleled legal representation. We have easily accessible offices in Virginia, Maryland, and D.C.

The founding partners, Joseph H. Koonz, Jr., Carolyn McKenney, and Roger C. Johnson began this firm in 1979 with a shared goal of aggressively defending the rights of individuals. We have founded a law firm dedicated to representing injured people, one client at a time. In keeping with this goal, we do not represent insurance companies or corporate clients. Rather, we exclusively represent individuals who have been injured through no fault of their own, including those entitled to workers' compensation or Social Security Disability benefits.

Koonz, McKenney, Johnson & DePaolis LLP provides our clients with the highest level of competent, personalized legal representation available in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Each Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC personal injury lawyer at our firm has developed the knowledge, resources, and contacts to handle large, complex cases without losing the personalized commitment of a small, hometown law firm.

Koonz, McKenney, Johnson & DePaolis LLP has offices in Fairfax, Virginia, Greenbelt, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Our work in the courts of all three jurisdictions has established our attorneys as aggressive representatives of our injured clients. We are, first and foremost, a firm of trial lawyers who vigorously pursue claims of injured people in the local and federal courts in all three jurisdictions.

The attorneys of Koonz, McKenney, Johnson & DePaolis LLP pride themselves on making our community a safer place to live and raise our children through our aggressive representation of injured people. Through our efforts, we have protected consumers from future injuries by forcing corporations to change the design of defective products and to alter harmful conduct. As a result, we believe we have made our community a better place for everyone.

To learn more about our law firm, contact us today.

Nelson Mullins has grown to be a major national law firm with strong roots in the business community and an appreciation for new directions in the business world.

Nelson Mullins meets the needs of its clients in litigation, corporate, labor and employment, securities, tax and other business areas. Many clients, including growth companies, expanding local businesses and major international companies, retain the firm to provide all of their legal services. Other clients are national companies requiring assistance with specific regional or local legal matters. The firm also has significant experience representing international companies interested in locating facilities in the Southeast.

Nelson Mullins provides creative solutions to complex legal and business problems while offering value-added service to firm clients. With more than 35 diversified practice areas, many of Nelson Mullins' clients, from individuals to worldwide organizations, look to the firm for full legal services. Start-up assistance for entrepreneurial endeavors, complex multi-action litigation defense, and representation of underwriters and investment bankers are only a few of the services that are provided by firm attorneys.

The firm is large enough to ensure promptness of service, yet personal enough to maintain our established reputation for individual client attention. Nelson Mullins provides the highest level of service to clients, while continuing to develop new areas of talent and knowledge.

The firm has adopted a program of closely managing its own performance, particularly with respect to quality of service and practice development. The firm closely communicates regarding clients' requirements and the potential fees and expenses that may result from the firm's work. Attorneys communicate with clients about available cost-saving measures.

Professional Affiliations
The lawyers of Nelson Mullins are members of more than 100 professional organizations and bar associations, and hold leadership positions in many of them. Selected firm lawyers are members of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the Defense Research Institute, and the Product Liability Advisory Council. Additionally, the firm holds membership in two premier law firm associations.

American Law Firm Association
Nelson Mullins is the designated member firm of the American Law Firm Association for Columbia, Greenville and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The basic object of ALFA, through its member firms, is to improve the quality and efficiency of legal services and to provide those services to clients at reasonable cost. Member firms of ALFA practice independently and not in relationship for the joint practice of law.

State Capital Global Law Firm Group
Nelson Mullins is the South Carolina member of the State Capital Global Law Firm Group, an association of independent law firms. Member firms are located in all 50 U.S. state capitals and in business markets and financial centers around the world. Attorneys from member firms bring a broad range of skills and experience. Firm members of the State Capital Global Law Firm Group practice independently and not in a relationship for the joint practice of law.