Harvey D. Peyton Esq

Born in 1949 to the late Tom H. Peyton and Anne T. Peyton, Mr. Peyton is a lifelong resident of West Virginia

A native of St. Albans, West Virginia, Harvey D. Peyton was admitted to practice law in the State of West Virginia immediately upon graduation from the West Virginia University College of Law in 1974. After a one-year clerkship with Chief Judge Robert E. Maxwell of the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, Mr. Peyton began practicing in the law office of Andrew J. Goodwin with a concentration on insurance defense trial work. In 1977, Mr. Peyton began practicing in Nitro, West Virginia, representing a wide range of civil litigants. Currently, he concentrates his practice on plaintiffs’ civil and criminal defense trial work in the Circuit Courts of Kanawha, Putnam and Mason Counties of West Virginia, and in local federal district courts. He is a member of the Putnam County Bar Association, the West Virginia State Bar, the West Virginia Bar Association, the West Virginia Association for Justice and the American Association for Justice. He is a past president of the West Virginia Association for Justice (formerly the West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association) and the West Virginia Bar Association. During a career that has now spanned almost 50 years of active practice, Mr. Peyton has completed well over two hundred jury trials involving wrongful death, serious personal injury, business disputes, claims under the Federal Employers Liability Act and criminal matters ranging from burglary and robbery to first degree murder.

Mr. Peyton believes that one’s highest goal is to help others who may be less fortunate. With his latest gifts to WVU and other institutions, the value of Mr. Peyton’s charitable gifts has exceeded a million and a half dollars.

Mr. Peyton is married to the former Jennifer Bailey of Poca, West Virginia, a graduate of Marshall University. He is the father of three children, Tom, Sarah and George, two of whom studied at WVU and all three of whom graduated from Marshall University.