Chris Daughtry

Personal Injury Attorney at Rutter Mills, LLP
Norfolk, VA15 years experienceAdmitted 2010

About 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.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Rutter Mills, LLP

These results are credited to Rutter Mills, LLP. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$4.01 millionVerdict

A Norfolk jury awarded $4,007,478 after a 14-year-old riding a scooter through a marked crosswalk was struck and killed by a driver who later admitted liability, leaving the trial focused solely on damages.

Norfolk Circuit Court · 2021Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Old Dominion University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Virginia, admitted 2010
State Bar of West Virginia

Awards & recognition

Virginia Super Lawyers Rising Star
Coastal Virginia Top Lawyers List (2023, 2026)
Top Lawyer in Workers' Compensation, Coastal Virginia Magazine
CALI Award for State and Local Government Law
Certificate of Proficiency in Lawyering Skills
AAJ Ultimate Trial Advocacy Course Graduate, Harvard Law School (2016)

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