Tiffany R. Durst, Attorney

Tiffany R. Durst was born in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania on February 22, 1971.  She attended Clay-Battelle High School in Blacksville, West Virginia and then West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia . Tiffany was on the Dean's List and/or the President's List for academic honors the entirety of her undergraduate education.  Her academic honors also included an Undergraduate Statistics Teach Fellowship in the spring of 1993.  In addition, Tiffany received a Certificate of Achievement from the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences on three separate occasions, as well as being named the 1993 Outstanding Senior in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. In 1993, Tiffany completed her undergraduate education, graduating Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Anthropology.

In the fall of 1994, Tiffany began her legal education at the West Virginia University College of Law in Morgantown, West Virginia .  Tiffany earned her J.D. in 1997, graduating from the College of Law with a class rank of 19 out of 138 students.

Following her admission to the West Virginia State Bar that fall, Tiffany began work with McNeer, Highland, McMunn & Varner, L.C., in Clarksburg, West Virginia , as an associate.  In 2004, Tiffany became a director with McNeer, Highland , McMunn & Varner, L.C.  Tiffany's practice included defense litigation, representing insurers and corporations in a wide variety of litigation including insurance defense, insurance coverage, insurance extracontractual liability (bad faith), medical malpractice defense, nursing home negligence defense, legal malpractice defense, adoption, and personal injury defense. In addition, Tiffany has had an active appellate practice before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, presenting oral argument before the Court in both appeals and extraordinary petitions on several occasions.  In that regard, Tiffany was chief appellate counsel in Strahin v. Sullivan, 647 S.E.2d 765, 2007 W. Va. Lexis 6 (2007) and Jackson v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, 215 W. Va. 364, 600 S.E.2d 346 (2004), two seminal cases addressing insurance bad faith and excess verdicts in the State of West Virginia.

In March of 2008, Tiffany continued her practice when she joined the law firm of Pullin, Fowler, Flanagan, Brown & Poe, PLLC, as a member, in the firm's Morgantown office.

Tiffany is admitted to practice before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, the United States District Court, in both the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Tiffany currently resides in Blacksville (approximately twenty minutes west of Morgantown ) with her husband, James, their two dogs, Justice and Duncan, and their cat, Bailey.