Our Parkersburg office provides full commercial and litigation services to clients in the Mid-Ohio Valley, West Central West Virginia, The Northern Panhandle, and Southeast Ohio. The office is within walking distance of the United States Courthouse, the Wood County Courthouse, the Parkersburg Municipal Building, and all downtown banks.

Bowles Rice came to Parkersburg as the result of a 1991 merger with the area's preeminent law firm, Davis, Bailey & Pfalzgraf. Established by a member of one of the state's founding families, the practice has been prominent in the region's commerce for over 125 years.

Building on that legacy, the Parkersburg office represents financial institutions, employers, entrepreneurs, individuals, and professionals in extraordinary transactions and in their day to day affairs. Our attorneys also play a prominent role in all aspects of economic development, regularly advising government entities and new and expanding businesses about financing, acquisitions, construction and tax issues.

Through the Parkersburg office we offer advice and representation in the business and commercial areas of the law, including, but not limited to, the areas of: labor and employment, commercial/business transactions, tax, estate planning and administration, elder law, health care, bankruptcy, eminent domain, energy, equine, environment, and securities. We handle commercial and residential real estate and natural resource transactions.

The Parkersburg regional office also has an extensive litigation practice in West Virginia and Ohio. Our chief litigation clients are major corporations, financial institutions and insurance carriers, as well as local businesses and individuals. The litigation lawyers handle many types of litigation, including but not limited to, employment, commercial/business, the defense of personal injury, product liability, and malpractice cases. Several attorneys in the Parkersburg office provide alternative dispute resolution services, such as mediation and arbitration.

The firm's statewide education law practice group also has representatives in the Parkersburg regional office. The education practice group itself has attorneys and legal assistants who are experienced in education law and represent public schools districts and other educational institutions throughout West Virginia.

Client service in Parkersburg is enhanced by a state-of-the-art video conference system and by cutting edge computer and communications networks. These technologies link the regional office to attorneys in the other Bowles Rice offices, offering our clients the expertise of nearly 100 additional lawyers.