Roger Creager
VerifiedAbout Roger Creager
Roger T. Creager is a personal injury attorney at Marks & Harrison. He has been practicing law since 1982 and has been involved with Marks & Harrison since 1997, when he joined the firm's Richmond office. He left in 2008 to start his own practice while continuing to serve as co-counsel and research/litigation consultant for Marks & Harrison through 2022, then rejoined the firm in 2023.
Creager is the only lawyer honored by the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association with both of its most prestigious awards: the Courageous Advocate Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award. Virginia Lawyers Weekly named him a Leader in the Law in 2014 and inducted him into its Hall of Fame in 2024. He played a central role in changing Virginia law (per UVA Lawyer alumni feature).
Creager earned his Juris Doctor with honors in 1982 from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served on the Law Review, and his undergraduate degree in 1976 from the College of William & Mary. Earlier in his career, he worked at the National Legal Research Group in Charlottesville.
Notable case results
A City of Richmond worker suffered permanent brain damage when a runaway Norfolk Southern boxcar with a missing brake rod drove a floodwall gate into him, and a Richmond jury returned a $10 million verdict.
A police chase on wet Virginia roads ended in a head-on collision that killed a six-months-pregnant passenger's unborn son and left her with catastrophic injuries, and the case settled for $5.24 million.
A 22-year-old worker creeping along a West Virginia interstate on a flat tire was rear-ended and thrown from his vehicle, and Marks & Harrison resolved the case for $3 million.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
