Overview
Mary Beth Sherwin is a Member in the firm’s Norfolk office and Co-Chair of the Health Care Practice 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
Honors & Recognitions
Go To Lawyers; Med Mal: Defense; Virginia Lawyers Weekly, 2024
Top Lawyers; CoVaBIZ Magazine, 2019-2026
Virginia’s Legal Elite; Virginia Business Magazine, 2014-2025
Influential Women of Law; Virginia Lawyers Weekly, 2021
Best Lawyers in America, 2021, 2026
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
Press & Publications
News
Community & Professional
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
Credentials
Education
Columbia University; Paris France, 1996
Wellesley College; A.B., cum laude, 1997
William & Mary Law School; J.D., 2000
Court Admissions
U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
