About William Sievers
William R. 'Rob' Sievers is a Principal and the lead attorney at Marks & Harrison's Charlottesville, Virginia office. He joined the firm in 2019 after practicing at a Richmond personal injury firm and at an insurance defense firm.
Sievers began his legal career as a law clerk for the Honorable Glen M. Williams, Senior United States District Court Judge for the Western District of Virginia, then served two years as an Assistant Attorney General and Associate Solicitor General in the Office of the Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia. He has served on the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association Pro Bono Committee and was a two-time presenter at the VTLA Advanced Auto Retreat.
Sievers earned his Juris Doctor from the Appalachian School of Law and his Bachelor's degree from Elon University.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Marks & Harrison
These results are credited to Marks & Harrison. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A tractor-trailer drifted into a retired 20-year veteran's lane on Interstate 95 North and killed him, and Marks & Harrison recovered $10 million for his family before any lawsuit was filed.
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 heavy retail display toppled onto a 7-year-old, fracturing the child's skull and forcing emergency brain surgery, and Marks & Harrison resolved the premises liability case for $9 million.
In February 2015 a Chesterfield County, Virginia police officer fired a Taser at Miles November, a 27-year-old man trapped in a wrecked car soaked in gasoline after a police chase. His clothing ignited and he suffered burns over most of his body, followed by months in the hospital and more than 30 surgeries. He sued the county and the officer in federal court in Richmond. The case settled in 2018 for $6.5 million, paid by the county's commercial insurer and its self-insurance fund.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
