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Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer - National Board of Legal Specialty Certification

William P Lightfoot
Koonz, McKenney, Johnson, DePaolis & Lightfoot
2001 Pennsylvania Ave NW #450
Washington DC 20006
Tel: 202 822-1864
Fax: 202 785-3719
E-mail: wlightfoot@koonz.com

William P. Lightfoot, managing partner at Koonz, McKenney, Johnson, DePaolis & Lightfoot, LLP, devotes his professional and political careers to improving our community. Whether representing the people of Washington, D.C. as clients or as constituents, Mr. Lightfoot has successfully made the metropolitan area safer for everyone.

For eight years, Mr. Lightfoot served as an at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia, where he chaired the Committee on the Judiciary. During his tenure on the Council, he continued to practice personal injury law.

For more than twenty-nine years, Mr. Lightfoot has had experience working as a Washington DC personal injury lawyer. He has had notable success not only in securing compensation for burn victims and but also in reforming negligent industries. After a series of successful recoveries for children disfigured by scalding water, Mr. Lightfoot’s efforts persuaded utility companies, manufacturers, and landlords to lower temperatures on water heaters and to warn consumers about the risk of burns from scalding water. As a result of his work on behalf of a boy severely burned in a house fire, he received a U.S. Patent for developing a label on an air conditioner. He dedicated the use of the patent to the public.

The National Safe Kids Campaign, a non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention of unintentional childhood injury, cites Mr. Lightfoot’s cases as influential in preventing injuries to children.

Recent successes for individual clients have led to changes in the construction industry and in hospitals.

In 2008, Mr. Lightfoot received the Attorney of the Year “Good Scout” Award from the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America in recognition for his work to better our community.

Recognition of Mr. Lightfoot's contributions and professionalism often appears in the media. Since 1992 the Washingtonian Magazine has regularly selected Mr. Lightfoot as one of the best lawyers in the District of Columbia, and he is often quoted on matters of law and politics in the Washington Post and on MSNBC as well as on local television and radio stations.

Mr. Lightfoot is a graduate of Howard University and Washington University School of Law. He is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The National Board of Trial Advocacy certifies him in the field of civil trial advocacy, and he is a Diplomat of the National College of Advocacy. Martindale Hubbell gives him the highest rating as an attorney. He has been married to Cynthiana for thirty-five years and they have two children, Ariana and B.J. Mr. Lightfoot was born on January 3, 1950.