Insurance Law Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants
Jeffery L. Robinette
Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2024 Awarded Practice Areas
Biography
Jeff Robinette, Top 1% Litigator Award, Super Lawyer, was born and raised in Welch, West Virginia in the heart of the McDowell County. As a boy, he began to work at the age of 12 as a paperboy and sweeper of parking lots and local shops. At the age of 15, he went to work for Kroger's and continued to work for the grocery chain until he had worked his way through college at Bluefield State and Concord College. Jeff also found time to compete in college tennis.
Before attending law school at WVU in Morgantown, Mr. Robinette served as an artillery officer, intelligence officer, and psychological operations officer, and an accomplished paratrooper (Jump Master Qualified) in the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and is proud to have contributed to the defense of our country.
As a partner in a leading West Virginia insurance defense law firm before founding the Robinette Legal Group, PLLC in 1999, Mr. Robinette gained valuable insight into the insurance industry’s claims settlement practices. Mr. Robinette has an AVVO rating of 10.0.
As a National Board-Certified Trial Attorney with hundreds of motor vehicle, injury, and construction defect claims and a leading author on insurance claims settlement issues and difficulties in West Virginia, Jeff Robinette, Martindale-Hubbell AV Rated, is uniquely qualified to represent your best interest.
Overview
- Concord University, BA in History, graduated 1983
- West Virginia University, J.D., graduated 1991
- West Virginia, The West Virginia State Bar , 1991
- The Gideons - Member
- West Virginia Southern District
- West Virginia Northern District
- West Virginia, The West Virginia State Bar , 1991
- The Gideons - Member
- Concord University, BA in History, graduated 1983
- West Virginia University, J.D., graduated 1991
- West Virginia Southern District
- West Virginia Northern District
Client Testimonials
Awards & Focus
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 for work in:
- Insurance Law
- Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants
Additional Areas of Practice:
- Professional Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs
- Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
Awards:
Best Law Firms for Insurance Law 2025
Best Lawyers - 2024-2026
Litigator's Award - Top 1 Percent Personal Injury Attorney
Multi-Million Dollar Advocates 2012-Present
National Top 1% Personal Injury Lawyer
10 Best Attorney - 2012-Present
NAOPIA Top 10 Attorney
AVVO 10.0 - Client's Choice Award
News & Media
Case History
Q&A
At Robinette Legal Group, we understand that trust between client and lawyer is built on a foundation of integrity. As West Virginia Personal Injury attorneys, we specialize in personal injury, wrongful death, and financial injury trial law.
In our early years, the Robinette Legal Group, PLLC focused on insurance defense, representing some of the largest corporations in West Virginia and nationwide. This experience provided us with the skills and insights we now leverage on the plaintiff’s side. We understand how defense teams approach cases, allowing us to craft the most effective strategies to counter their tactics and prove your case in court.
For the past decade, Jeff Robinette has dedicated his expertise to maximizing claims for seriously injured individuals and families who have tragically lost loved ones in West Virginia.
Our founding trial attorney, Jeff Robinette, is a lifetime member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, which includes many of the nation’s top trial lawyers. He has also been recognized as a National Top 1% Personal Injury Attorney.
How can I pay for an attorney?
We handle our personal injury, malpractice, and wrongful death cases on a contingency fee basis, meaning that you will pay nothing until we obtain money for you.
In what ways can you help us after a personal injury has forever changed our lives?
To ensure that every client receives the highest quality legal representation, we focus exclusively on one area of law—personal injury. This commitment led our founder, Jeff Robinette, to become a board-certified trial lawyer and be recognized as a Super Lawyer in personal injury law. Our sole objective is to care for your needs and secure fair compensation for your injuries.
We prioritize accessibility, providing our clients with the cell phone numbers of our attorneys so they can ask questions and stay informed at every stage of their case.
We also invest in expert witnesses, produce custom day-in-the-life videos for our most seriously injured clients, and provide all the resources necessary to move your case forward.
Truly, we have many clients who have impacted our lives so significantly that we keep in touch and follow their progress as they move forward with their lives after their legal case is successfully resolved.
Imagine having your leg crushed so badly in a truck accident that you have to undergo two surgeries to insert multiple pins and have a rod hammered into the bone just to stabilize the femur. Unfortunately, the first rod inserted into the bone didn’t accomplish the desired effect, so the rod had to be removed and surgically reinserted. Imagine the great pain, the months of therapy and recovery, and the frustration of knowing you can never return to the type of work you have performed for decades.
Jeff Robinette was able to obtain a great enough settlement to pay this man’s medical bills in their entirety and money enough to start a new business so he could work and live a productive life even with his permanent impairment.
Wrongful deathcases are incredibly heartbreaking, and we do everything we can to comfort, encourage, and support these families as they move forward. We are amazed at the resilience of our clients who overcome life-changing injuries and go on to build new lives.
Dealing with insurance companies that try to minimize and deny our clients' injuries is challenging, but Jeff Robinette’s deep knowledge of insurance law—gained from experience on both sides—enables him to anticipate and counter the tactics that could harm our clients.
Before founding the Robinette Legal Group, PLLC in 1999, Mr. Robinette was a partner at a leading West Virginia insurance defense law firm, where he gained valuable insight into the insurance industry’s claims settlement practices. Over time, he realized that his sympathies lay with the truly injured, rather than the insurance companies attempting to deny, delay, and diminish the valid claims of permanently injured individuals. For the past decade, Mr. Robinette has exclusively represented injured plaintiffs and their families, helping them secure the justice and financial compensation they need and deserve.
Jeff Robinette is involved in his church, an avid tennis player and golfer, and has a professional racing license to compete on the fast track in his Mustang race car. His wife of nearly 40 years and nine children are his greatest joy.
Mr. Robinette also loves to give back to our Morgantown community.
Jeff Robinette has achieved the status of National Board Certified Trial Attorney, National Top One Percent for Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice, Super Lawyer, Martindale-Hubbell AV Rating, Avvo 10.0.
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