Joy C. Fuhr Partner

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Joy is an accomplished litigator with expertise in managing all facets of multi-jurisdictional litigation brought by cities, counties, state attorneys general, grassroots organizations, and individuals. She has successfully defended a wide range of environmental and personal injury claims for Fortune 500 companies, including public nuisance, private nuisance, environmental contamination, and climate change. She has served as national counsel in all facets of litigation from setting strategy, managing fact and expert discovery, through trial.

Joy has more than 20 years of experience litigating complex, high profile cases.  In her role as national counsel, she has managed litigation to successful resolution in California, Texas, Ohio, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Missouri, Alabama, Rhode Island, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. She has extensive experience defending public and private nuisance, environmental contamination, and climate change litigation, almost all of which were brought by nationally recognized Plaintiffs’ firms on behalf of cities, counties, attorneys general, and individuals. 

Joy has held several management roles at McGuireWoods, including serving on the Board of Partners, the Associates Committee, and chairing the Women’s Lawyers Network.

Before McGuireWoods, Joy served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert F. Chapman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Before law school, Joy was an All-American tennis player at Princeton and played on the professional tour.

Experience

  • Obtained defense verdict for Fortune 100 chemical company for public nuisance claims brought by 10 cities and counties in California.
  • Won summary judgment for Fortune 500 oil and gas company against public nuisance allegations brought by the Sierra Club in Oklahoma.
  • Obtained summary judgement for Fortune 500 oil and gas company for public and private nuisance claims brought by property owners in multiple Oklahoma counties.
  • Successful defense of Fortune 100 paper and packaging producer of class action and private nuisance claims brought by property owners in Virginia.
  • Obtained dismissal for Fortune 100 chemical company for public nuisance claims brought by Pennsylvania counties.
  • Obtained dismissal for Fortune 100 chemical company of public nuisance claims brought by 30 cities and townships in New Jersey.
  • Obtained dismissal for Fortune 100 chemical company of public nuisance claims brought by 30 cities in Ohio.
  • Obtained dismissal for Fortune 100 chemical company of public nuisance claims brought by the City of St. Louis, Missouri.
  • Obtained dismissal for Fortune 100 chemical company of property damage claims brought by school districts in Texas and Mississippi.
  • Obtained defense verdict for Fortune 100 chemical company for personal injury claims brought in Milwaukee under Wisconsin’s risk contribution doctrine.
  • Won dismissal for Fortune 100 chemical company of personal injury claims brought by more than 180 plaintiffs in Milwaukee under Wisconsin’s risk contribution doctrine.