RICHMOND, VA. Vandeventer Black LLP is pleased to announce that Partner, Mark S. Brennan, Sr. has been selected as a 2014 Top Rated Lawyer in Medical Malpractice Law. 

American Lawyer Media, a leading provider of news and information to the legal industry teamed with Martindale Hubbell to recognize the Top Lawyers across the country. Previously, Mr. Brennan also achieved the AV Preeminent peer review rating from Martindale Hubbell, the highest rating in legal ability and ethical standards.

Mr. Brennan is a partner with Vandeventer Black with over 27 years of extensive trial and litigation experience in state and federal courts. Mark defends physicians, nurses, hospitals, nursing home/long term care facilities, physical therapists, dentists, and all other varieties of health care providers against medical malpractice wrongful death and personal injury claims. Mark serves as regional counsel for long term nursing care companies in Virginia. Mark represents and defends healthcare providers in proceedings before the state professional licensing and disciplinary boards. Mark also defends health care providers in discrimination/labor/employment cases and general personal injury cases.

In addition to his defense of health care providers, Mark also defends attorneys against legal malpractice claims and defends sureties in bond litigation cases.

He received a B.A. from the University of Delaware and a J.D. from University of Richmond, T.C. Williams School of Law, where he was an Associate Editor of the Law Review. Mark is admitted to practice in all federal and state courts of Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the City of Richmond Bar Association, the Virginia Association of Defense Lawyers, the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, the Defense Research Institute, the American Trial Lawyers Association and the Virginia Bar Association.