Lawyers / Professionals

 
Terrence M. Bagley       
Partner
One James Center
901 East Cary Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219-4030
T: 804.775.4371
F: 804.698.2008
tbagley@mcguirewoods.com
 

As deputy managing partner of McGuireWoods, Mr. Bagley focuses on products liability, toxic tort and commercial litigation. He has extensive experience in defending clients in automotive, power products, asbestos and PCB litigation. He has litigated throughout the United States and has tried products liability cases to verdict in state and federal courts. He has also argued cases in state and federal courts of appeal. He has served as national and regional counsel in mass tort cases including cases pending before various multidistrict litigation (MDL) courts.

He has also represented automotive manufacturers in crashworthiness cases in state and federal courts including cases involving active and passive restraint systems. In addition to his trial work, he has mediated numerous products cases throughout the United States. He has also represented large, national clients in antitrust litigation cases involving allegations of price-fixing.

Mr. Bagley is chairman of the firm's Consumer Products Safety Team, and has represented a wide variety of products manufacturers before the Consumer Product Safety Commission. He has relied on his many years of CPSC experience to develop creative recall and corrective action plans for clients. He has spoken before a number of groups and has published in the area of consumer product safety and risk management. He has also counseled clients in various areas of risk management including literature reviews and analysis of product warnings.


Practices & Industries
Firm Management
  • Deputy Managing Partner, 2006-Present
  • Department Chair, Product and Consumer Litigation Department, 2004-2006
  • McGuireWoods Council,1999-2004

Honors
  • AV Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
  • Named One of the "Best Lawyers in America," Woodward/White, Inc., 2007-2011

Publications
  • "Riding the Recall 'Fast Track'," For the Defense, August 2000
  • Product Liability Defenses, Virginia Chapter, Virginia Product Law, Defense Research Institute, 1992

Professional Affiliations
  • Defense Research Institute
  • Pennsylvania Bar Association
 

EDUCATION

Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, Buies Creek, North Carolina, J.D., 1982

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, B.A., 1977

 

FRATERNITIES OR SORORITIES

Phi Alpha Delta

 

ADMITTED

Virginia 1982

Pennsylvania 1991

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit 1982

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. Federal Court 1982

 

PLACE OF BIRTH

Richmond, Virginia