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About Tim Whaley
Tim Whaley represents clients throughout Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia with a focus on catastrophic personal injury, including negligent security, fires, vehicle and trucking collisions, medical malpractice, product liability, gas explosions, and police misconduct. He has handled dozens of cases involving wrongful death, paralysis, loss of limb, and brain injury. After clerking at The Cochran Firm, Tim began his legal career as an Assistant State Attorney for Miami-Dade County, Florida, where he tried more than 40 jury trials on charges ranging from misdemeanors to attempted murder and DUI manslaughter. He was a member of the Traffic Homicide Unit and received a Prosecution Award of Honor from Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).
He then became a partner at a South Florida civil litigation firm handling negligent security, construction defect, premises liability, and motor vehicle cases. He earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington DC and his B.A. in economics and journalism from Gonzaga University. He and his wife reside in Northern Virginia.
Proven verdicts and settlements at The Cochran Firm (DC)
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More than 8,000 women reached a $190 million class-action settlement against Johns Hopkins Hospital after gynecologist Dr. Nikita Levy secretly filmed patients during examinations over a 25-year career.
A Prince George's County jury found University of Maryland Capital Region Health liable for the amputation of Jamie White's leg after two surgeries were delayed for hours following a 2020 slip-and-fall, cutting off oxygen to her limb for an irreversible stretch of time.
A Spotsylvania County, Virginia jury awarded the estate of Joseph Roberts $1.28 million, plus about $170,000 in interest, against Carriage Hill Health & Rehab Center in August 2013. Roberts, a wheelchair user, was left alone outside the nursing home to smoke on June 3, 2011, and his clothes caught fire, causing second- and third-degree burns. The jury cleared the home's parent company, Commonwealth Care, of negligence.
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