FACULTY & COURSE PLANNER
Seth C. Weston, Law Office of Seth C. Weston, PLC / Roanoke
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Seth C. Weston, Law Office of Seth C. Weston / Roanoke
Seth C. Weston is a sole practitioner operating his own law firm, the Law Office of Seth C. Weston, PLC, in Roanoke. Mr. Weston has had a unique legal career that has seen him go from patrolling the streets around the U.S. Supreme Court as a police officer to presenting a case to the U.S. Supreme Court as a lawyer after it granted certiorari based upon his argument during a criminal trial in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. He was a police officer with the Metropolitan Police Department, Washington, DC, for approximately 12 years, serving as a patrol officer, an investigator in the First District Gun Recovery Unit (a vice unit investigating illegal firearms), a patrol Sergeant, an Agent in the Office of Internal Affairs, and ended his career as a detective Sergeant in the Seventh District. Mr. Weston received numerous honors and awards throughout his career, including being recognized nationally as a “Top Cop” by the National Association of Police Organizations for his investigative work in a pipe bombing case, which was featured on America’s Most Wanted. He accomplished all this while attending the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School at night and working full time as a law enforcement officer.
In 2003, Mr. Weston began his career as a lawyer as an Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney for the City of Roanoke, after which he opened his own law practice in 2006. He regularly tries cases in all levels of federal and state courts throughout the greater Roanoke Valley and Southwest Virginia and has appeared before and argued cases at all levels of the Virginia appellate court system as well as the United States Supreme Court. He is a Past President of the Board of Governors of the Criminal Law Section of the Virginia State Bar, and a Past President of the Virginia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (VACDL). Lastly, and most importantly, he is blessed with an incredible wife and three beautiful children and is thankful every day for them.