Chris Daughtry

Chris Daughtry is a personal injury attorney at Rutter Mills, LLP in Virginia, with over 15 years of experience handling hundreds of personal injury and workers' compensation cases. His practice covers traumatic brain injuries, maritime accidents, catastrophic boiler explosions, wrongful death, and tractor-trailer crashes.

Daughtry earned his Bachelor of Science from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, in 2004 and his Juris Doctor from Liberty University School of Law in Lynchburg, Virginia in 2010. He received a Certificate of Proficiency in Lawyering Skills (selected by law faculty) and the CALI Award for State and Local Government Law. He completed the AAJ Ultimate Trial Advocacy Course at Harvard Law School in 2016.

He is admitted to Virginia state and federal courts, West Virginia state and federal courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the Supreme Court of the United States, the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission, and the Federal Office of Administrative Law Judges.

Daughtry has been recognized as a Virginia Super Lawyers Rising Star, on Coastal Virginia's Top Lawyers List (2023, 2026), and as a Top Lawyer in Workers' Compensation by Coastal Virginia Magazine.