Rob J. Aliff is a Member of the Firm's Charleston, West Virginia, office.  He practices in the Litigation Department where he currently serves as the Chair of the Medical Professional Liability Group.  Mr. Aliff's practice focuses on general, medical and health care litigation.  A substantial part of Mr. Aliff's practice involves the defense of doctors, nurses, hospitals and other health care providers in actions brought under the West Virginia Medical Professional Liability Act (MPLA).  He has handled cases involving various medical issues and specialties and has tried MPLA cases involving cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, oncology, urology, orthopedic surgery, gynecologic surgery, obstetrics, radiology and various nursing care issues.

In January 2009, Mr. Aliff and Jackson Kelly attorney Thomas J. Hurney, Jr., obtained a defense verdict for a hospital in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County in West Virginia.  In addition to MPLA cases, Mr. Aliff has defended health care providers and others in actions arising from defective products and pharmaceuticals in State Circuit Courts and Federal District Courts.  He also represents health care providers in disciplinary actions before the West Virginia Board of Medicine, the West Virginia Board of Osteopathy, the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses and the West Virginia Board of Physical Therapy.  Mr. Aliff frequently provides counsel to health care providers and medical practices regarding confidentiality, risk management and maintaining medical records.

Mr. Aliff has presented various lectures on important issues to health care providers, including "Medical Malpractice 101," "Risk Management:  Preventing Malpractice Lawsuits," "Medical Record Charting" and "Health Care Directives."  He participates in Grand Rounds for the Departments of Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Pediatrics at Charleston Area Medical Center and also speaks at the Annual Patient Care Symposium at Thomas Memorial Hospital.  Mr. Aliff was a presenter at the West Virginia CLE, Litigation 2001 conference at Canaan Valley Resort on the topic of "Obtaining Medical Records by Subpoena."  He also spoke at the 2009 Litigation CLE on "Drug and Medical Device Litigation."  In 2003, Mr. Aliff and Tom Hurney authored "Medical Professional Liability in West Virginia," in the West Virginia Law Review. Mr. Aliff presented "Expert Depositions 101:  Defending the Expert Deposition," at the Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia 2006 Deposition Boot Camp.  In June 2008, Mr. Aliff co-authored, "Challenges to Affidavit of Merit Requirements" in For The Defense with fellow Jackson Kelly attorneys Tom Hurney and Jennifer Mankins.

Mr. Aliff currently serves on the Board of Governors of the West Virginia State Bar and as a member of the Defense Research Institute and the Kanawha County Bar Association.  Mr. Aliff volunteers for various organizations throughout the state, including West Virginia Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership, the Board of Directors of Leadership West Virginia, the Advisory Counsel for the West Virginia Governor's Schools and the Charleston Chapter of the Washington & Lee University Alumni Association.  He currently serves as the Chairman of the Law Annual Fund for Washington & Lee, serves on the board of directors for the Washington & Lee University Alumni Association and is active at Christ Church United Methodist.  Mr. Aliff was a 2007 recipient of The State Journal Generation Next, 40 Under 40 award.  He also participated in the 2006 Leadership West Virginia program and is currently a Lifetime Member of Leadership West Virginia.

Mr. Aliff graduated from Washington & Lee University with a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in psychology in 1991 where he was inducted into the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society.  He then graduated from Washington & Lee University School of Law, with a Juris Doctor in 1997.  He was a member of Phi Alpha Delta and participated in the Alderson Prison Practicum.  While at Washington & Lee, Mr. Aliff was the recipient of the J.E. Lewis Scholarship.

• Board of Governors of the West Virginia State Bar, 2008- present
  
• Executive Committee of the Young Lawyers Section of the West Virginia State Bar, 2005-2008
  
• Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia
  
• Defense Research Institute (DRI)
  
• Medical Professional Liability Committee, Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia
  

• Past President & Board of Directors, Charleston Chapter-Washington & Lee University Alumni Association
  
• Board of Directors, Washington & Lee University Alumni Association
  
• Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership, West Virginia Corporate Board Member
  
• Past Chairman, Advisory Council of the West Virginia Governor's Schools
  
• Washington & Lee University Law Council, Emeritus 
  
• Leadership West Virginia, 2006
  

• "Medical Malpractice 101: The Chart", 27th Annual Midwinter Osteopathic Seminar, Charleston, West Virginia, February 2010
  
• Various lectures to the Departments of Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Pediatrics at Charleston Area Medical Center. Topics have included: "Medical Malpractice 101", "Risk Management: Preventing Malpractice Lawsuits", "Medical Record Charting", and "Health Care Directives"
  
• "Obtaining Medical Records by Subpoena", West Virginia CLE, Litigation 2001, Canaan Valley Resort
  
• Annual Patient Care Symposium, Thomas Memorial Hospital
  
• "Expert Symposium 101: Defending the Expert Deposition," Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia, Deposition Boot Camp, 2006
  
• "Drug and Medical Device Litigation," West Virginia CLE, Litigation 2009, Canaan Valley Resort
  

• "Obtaining Medical Records by Subpoena: A Review of Keplinger v. Virginia Electric and Power Company", Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia 2001 Annual Convention Notebook
  
• Co-author, with Thomas J. Hurney, Jr., "Medical Professional Liability in West Virgina," 105 West Virginia Law Review 368, Winter 2003
  
• Co-author with Tom Hurney and Jennifer Mankins, "Challenges to Affidavit of Merit Requirements," For the Defense, June, 2008
  
  

• Named by Law & Politics to the 2010 edition of West Virginia Super Lawyers^®
• Selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America®, 2010-2011
  
• Generation Next, 40 under 40, the WV State Journal, 2007
  
• Graduated cum laude from Washington & Lee University, 1991
  
• JE Lewis Scholarship
  
• Phi Alpha Delta
  
• Omicron Delta Kappa