Denise Whitelaw

Personal Injury Attorney at Rutter Mills, LLP
Norfolk, VA27 years experienceAdmitted 1986

About Denise Whitelaw

Denise A. Whitelaw is a personal injury attorney at Rutter Mills, LLP in Virginia. Her practice focuses exclusively on personal injury cases, including car accidents, truck accidents, and wrongful death matters.

Whitelaw is an experienced litigator who came from the insurance industry, where she also worked as a paralegal and negotiator before becoming an attorney.

She earned her B.A. from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, a Diplome from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, France, and her Juris Doctor from the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California in 1986.

She is admitted to the Virginia State Bar (1998), the California Bar (1986), and the District of Columbia Bar.

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

Wesleyan University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California, admitted 1986
State Bar of Virginia, admitted 1998
State Bar of District of Columbia

Awards & recognition

Diplome, Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Paris, France)

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