J. Mark Adkins is a partner in the Charleston office of Bowles Rice LLP and a member of the Litigation Practice Group. His primary areas of practice include business litigation, commercial and contract disputes, banking litigation, energy litigation, construction litigation, legal malpractice and professional liability defense, insurance coverage disputes and personal injury and products liability litigation. A native of Salt Rock, West Virginia, Mark received his J.D. in 1997 from the West Virginia University College of Law, where he was a member of the Moot Court Board and served as an officer of the Lugar Trial Association. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Centre College in 1994.Mark is admitted to practice in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, the United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States of America. He is a member of the West Virginia Bar Association and the past President of the Young Lawyers Section. Mark has also served as an officer of the Kanawha County Bar Association and is a member of the American Bar Association and the Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia. He also serves as a member of the West Virginia State Bar Lawyer Information and Referral Service Committee.