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Denise Whitelaw

Personal Injury Attorney at Rutter Mills, LLP
Virginia Beach, 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.

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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