Gary Brooks Mims

Partner

Known for consistent courtroom success, Gary B. Mims has practiced law since 1980. He was a defense litigator for 20 years, defending a heavy schedule of trials involving automobile, trucking, train and other transportation accidents and a wide variety of personal injury cases. He developed a special interest and significant experience in medical malpractice, first from the defense side, and since 1999, as a plaintiff's attorney. He has successfully represented clients in complicated medical cases involving failure to diagnose cancer, defective joint prostheses, anesthesia-related injuries and weight-loss drugs. Gary has also successfully represented clients suffering injury and death by a massive train wreck, defective golf course design, and a defective storm retention pond, among others.

Education
George Mason University School of Law, JD, 1979
The University of Virginia, BA, 1974

Admitted to Practice
In all State and Federal Courts in Virginia and The District of Columbia,
The Supreme Court of the United States

Professional Activities
Class Lecturer, Washington & Lee University and George Mason School of Law
Master, The George Mason American Inn of Court
Judge, ABA's Moot Court Competition
Juror, National Finals, ATLA Law Student Moot Court Competition
Judicial Screening Committee, Fairfax Bar Association
Frequent lecturer for Virginia State Bar, Virginia CLE, Fairfax Bar Association

Previous Experience
Counsel, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics
Staff Assistant, The Clerk, The U.S. House of Representatives

Honors
2005-current
SuperLawyers, Virginia and DC, 2008
Top Attorneys (Top 1% personal injury attorneys) Washingtonian magazine, 2007

Representative Cases
$1.245 Million for Failure to Diagnose Prostate Cancer
$4.87 Million for Victims of Defective Knee Prostheses
Train Derailment/Wrongful Death Suit Settles for $4.57 Million
$3.05 Million for I-95 Crash Victim