Mary Elizabeth Sherwin
Biography
Mary Beth is a Member in the firm’s Health Care Group. She chairs the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee and serves on the firm’s Recruiting Committee. Her practice includes insurance defense of personal injury matters in the health care context ranging from the representation of health systems and hospitals to practices and individual healthcare providers. In addition to civil litigation, she also defends health care providers in matters before the Virginia Department of Health Professions to include the respective licensing boards. Mary Beth routinely advises her health care clients on risk management and medical staff issues. She also provides guidance on health care decision-making matters to include guardianship/conservatorship and medical treatment proceedings.
Representative Matters
- Counsels health systems, hospitals, nursing homes, physicians and other health care professionals on risk management issues, and handles guardianship and medical treatment proceedings
- Defends health care professionals when their depositions are requested as treating providers
- Represents health care professionals before health regulatory boards, including the Virginia Board of Medicine and the Virginia Board of Nursing – most recently defended physician who was fully exonerated by Board despite receiving letter of reprimand from hospital for endangering resident
- Handles the Medical Malpractice Team’s cases involving female health care professionals
Recognition & Honors
- Go To Lawyers; Med Mal: Defense; Virginia Lawyers Weekly, 2024
- Top Lawyers; CoVaBIZ Magazine, 2019-2024
- Virginia’s Legal Elite; Virginia Business Magazine, 2014-2023
- Influential Women of Law; Virginia Lawyers Weekly, 2021
- Best Lawyers in America, 2021
- Virginia Rising Stars; Law & Politics, 2008-2015
- Virginia Rising Stars; PI Med Mal: Defense, 2015
- LEAD Hampton Roads, Class of 2014
- AV® Rated; Martindale-Hubbell
- Law Clerk to The Honorable Rebecca Beach Smith, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- Editorial Board; William & Mary Law Review
- William & Mary National Trial Team
- Wellesley College Scholar
Associations
- Virginia Bar Association; Healthcare and Litigation Sections
- Virginia State Bar
- Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar Association
- Federal Bar Association
- Defense Research Institute
- Bon Secours Mercy Health South Hampton Roads Foundation; Board of Directors
Court Admissions
- Virginia
- U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Education
- Columbia University; Paris France, 1996
- Wellesley College; A.B., cum laude, 1997
- William & Mary Law School; J.D., 2000
Press & Publications
- Kaufman & Canoles’ Mary Beth Sherwin and Diversity & Inclusion Committee Featured in Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Spotlight
- 36 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named as Top Lawyers 2024 in CoVaBIZ Magazine
- Mary Elizabeth Sherwin Named as Virginia’s Go To Business Medical Malpractice Lawyer
- 53 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Virginia Business Magazine’s “Legal Elite” 2023
- 44 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named as Top Lawyers 2023 in CoVaBIZ Magazine
- 53 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Virginia Business Magazine’s “Legal Elite” 2022
- 40 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named as Top Lawyers 2022 in CoVaBIZ Magazine
- 52 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Virginia Business Magazine’s “Legal Elite” 2021
- 40 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named as Top Lawyers 2021 in CoVaBIZ Magazine
- 53 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named to Virginia Business Magazine’s “Legal Elite” 2020
- 46 Attorneys Named “Best Lawyers in America 2021”, 5 Named “Lawyer of the Year” and 7 Named “Ones to Watch”
- 45 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named CoVaBIZ Magazine’s “Top Lawyers” 2020
- 48 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Virginia Business Magazine’s “Legal Elite” 2019
- 48 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Virginia Business Magazine’s “Legal Elite” 2018
- 40 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named as Top Lawyers 2019 in CoVaBiz Magazine
- 48 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Virginia Business Magazine’s Legal Elite 2017
- 48 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named to Virginia Business Magazine’s Legal Elite 2016
- 44 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Virginia Business Magazine’s Legal Elite 2015
- 32 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named as Super Lawyers 2015 and 7 Named as Rising Stars 2015
- 45 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named to Virginia Business Magazine’s Legal Elite 2014
- 29 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named as Super Lawyers 2014 and 8 Named as Rising Stars 2014
- 29 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named as Super Lawyers 2013 and 14 Named as Rising Stars 2013
- 40 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named as Super Lawyers 2012 and 14 Named as Rising Stars 2012
- 36 K&C Attorneys Named as Super Lawyers 2011 and 14 Named as Rising Stars 2011
- 31 K&C Attorneys Named as Super Lawyers & 11 Named as Rising Stars 2010