Similar personal injury attorneys in Virginia Beach
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
About Cara Purvis
Cara Purvis is a personal injury attorney at Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers in Virginia, having joined the firm in 2023. Her current practice focuses on personal injury matters.
Before joining Cooper Hurley, Purvis spent 18 years as a trial attorney and Deputy Public Defender in Norfolk, Virginia, where she handled approximately 3,200 cases involving felony and misdemeanor offenses in Juvenile & Domestic Relations, General District, and Circuit Courts. Earlier in her career, she worked as an employment counselor and probation officer.
She earned her B.S. magna cum laude from Old Dominion University and her Juris Doctor from Regent University School of Law.
She is admitted to the Virginia State Bar.
Purvis is a member of the Norfolk/Portsmouth Bar Association (Bench/Bar Committee), the Virginia Beach Bar Association, the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, the American Association for Justice, and is a founding member of the CounselHer Circle women's attorney network.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers
These results are credited to Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A 23-year-old grain truck driver was killed when an electrical arc jumped from an overhead high-voltage power line to the portable auger he was using at a commercial silo, and his family recovered $12 million from the power company and property owner.
A 40-year-old motorcyclist whose foot was traumatically amputated after an oncoming driver cut across his lane recovered $7 million in a settlement reached one month before trial.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
