Juli M. Porto

• Appellate and Trial Consulting Practice
• Personal Injury
• Automobile and Trucking Accidents
• Brain Injury
• Justice for Crime Victims, Inadequate Security Litigation
• Product Liability
• Wrongful Death

• George Mason University School of Law (J.D.)
• New York University (B.A, Honors Scholar)
• United States Military Academy (, National Defense Service Medal, Air Assault (Honorable Discharge))

• Virginia State Bar
• District of Columbia
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
• U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• Supreme Court of the United States

Professional Honors

• Virginia Lawyers Weekly (Leader of the Year 2024)
• Virginia Lawyers Weekly (Leaders in Law - Class of 2024)
• Virginia Lawyers Weekly (Go To Lawyer, Appellate Litigation)
• Washingtonian's Top Lawyers (Personal Injury)
• Super Lawyers (Appeals)
• Northern Virginia Magazine (Personal Injury)
• U.S. News - Best Lawyers in America, (Personal Injury)
• U.S. News - Best Lawyers in America, (Appellate Practice)
• The National Trial Lawyers "Top 40 Under 40" (Personal Injury)
• Virginia Business Magazine "Legal Elite" (Appeals)
• Arlington Magazine’s Top Attorneys (Personal Injury & Appeals)
• American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys “10 Best in Client Satisfaction" (Personal Injury)

Presentations and Lectures

• Case Law Update (VTLA Annual Convention 2024)
• Faculty, Appellate Practice: Building and Perfecting Appellate Skills (Virginia CLE 2024)
• Case Law Update (VTLA Annual Convention 2023)
• 5 Things Every Trial Attorney Should Know About Appeals (Fairfax Bar Association 2023)
• Appellate Bonds (VBA Appellate Summit 2023)
• What To Do When Things Go Wrong on Appeal (Fairfax Bar Association 2022)
• Faculty, Appellate Advocacy Academy (Virginia CLE 2022)
• Convention Committee, VTLA Annual Convention (VTLA Annual Convention 2022)
• Ethics in Appellate Practice (VBA 5th Appellate Summit 2021)
• Chair, VTLA Annual Tort Law Seminar (VTLA Tort Law Seminar 2021)
• Appellate Analysis: The Law of Duty (VTLA Annual Convention 2021)
• Obtaining Neuropsychological Raw Data (VTLA Traumatic Brain Injury Retreat 2021)
• Ridehail Seminar (VTLA Annual Convention 2020)
• Technology & Advocacy (VTLA Advocacy Summit 2019)
• Litigating the Pressure Injury Case (VTLA Nursing Home Litigation Retreat 2019)
• Proving Damages (National Business Institute 2016)
• Getting the Most Out of Medical Experts and Records (National Business Institute 2016)
• Microsoft PowerPoint for Courtroom and Client Presentations (National Business Institute 2015)
• The Many Uses of Microsoft Excel in Legal Practice (National Business Institute 2015)

Professional Memberships

• Virginia Law Foundation, Committee on Continuing Legal Education
• Ridehail Crime Victim Litigation Group, National Chair
• Virginia Bar Association, Appellate Section Council
• Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, Amicus Committee and Judicial Relations Committee
• American Association of Justice
• Fairfax County Bar Association
• Prince William County Bar Association

• Quoted, Virginia appeals court rules judge wrongly dismissed asset forfeiture challenge, Virginia Mercury (July 25, 2024).
• Court Clerk Error Is No Excuse For A Missed Deadline, Law360 (April 29, 2024).
• Quoted, ‘We need the cases’: Virginia’s high court issuing fewer opinions, Virginia Lawyers Weekly (September 25, 2023).
• Quoted, How Va. Appellate Overhaul is Shaking Up the Old Dominion, Law360 (February 8, 2023). sub. req.
• Co-author, Essential Strategies for Representing Brain Injury Plaintiffs, Law360 (February 25, 2021). sub. req.
• Quoted, Uber's Challenge to Balance Driver Safety With Customer Privacy, New York Times (March 10, 2020), available at: tinyurl.com/PortoNYT.
• Is There a New Sheriff in Town Named "A.H. Tingler?", VTLAppeal, Vol. 3, No. 2, at 6 (2020).
• Be Careful What You Ask For: Cashion v. Smith May Not Keep You From Getting It, VTLAppeal, Vol. 3, No. 1, at 10 (2020).
• Co-author, Itemizing Intangible Damages in Closing Argument, The Journal of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, Vol. 23, No. 3, at 8 (2012).

• Service2School: Helping Veterans Apply to School, 2011 – present

Appellate

• Chung v. Law Firm of Urban & Falk, PLLC, 2024 WL 4594323, Record No. 1665-23-4 (Virginia Court of Appeals 2024)
• Foster v. Foster, 2022 WL 2202988, Record No. 1141-21-2 (Virginia Court of Appeals 2022)
• Elliott v. Elliott, 2022 WL 598336, Record No. 0754-21-4 (Virginia Court of Appeals 2022)
• VTLA Amicus, Doe v. Baker, 299 Va. 628, 857 S.E.2d 573 (Virginia Supreme Court 2021)
• Jung v. Park, 2021 WL 1235422, Record No. 191495 (Virginia Supreme Court 2021)
• Hampton v. Meyer, 299 Va. 121, 847 S.E.2d 287 (Virginia Supreme Court 2020)
• Wilson v. Lee, 2018 WL 633522, Record No. 170347 (Virginia Supreme Court 2018)
• Toraish v. Lee, 293 Va. 262, 797 S.E.2d 760 (Virginia Supreme Court 2017)
• Wakole v. Barber, 283 Va. 488, 722 S.E.2d 238 (Virginia Supreme Court 2012)

Personal Injury

• Obtained a $9,000,000 settlement for the families of three students who tragically lost their lives and two survivors of the November 2022 University of Virginia shooting, working alongside co-counsel to achieve justice and advocate for reforms to improve campus safety and prevent future gun violence.
• Secured a $5,075,000 settlement for a client who suffered paraplegia after a rear-end collision caused their truck’s seatback to collapse, propelling their head into the rear compartment.
• Secured a $3,000,000 settlement for an engineer who sustained multiple fractures and underwent several surgeries following a head-on collision.
• Achieved a $2,325,000 settlement for a woman who suffered permanent leg injuries and life-altering consequences in a broadside collision, highlighting the importance of thorough case preparation, including a "day in the life" video and a life care plan.
• Secured a $3,250,000 settlement for the estate of a 16-year-old boy who tragically lost his life in a construction trench collapse, holding the construction company, its manager, and the property owner accountable for negligence and unsafe conditions.
• Secured a $2,850,000 settlement for a young woman who suffered burns to her face, neck, and torso from a defective pressure cooker and her husband’s loss of consortium claim, demonstrating that a manufacturing defect in the locking mechanism caused the explosion despite the defendants’ claims of user error.
• Achieved a $1,100,000 settlement for a lifelong athlete and father who suffered permanent knee injuries requiring multiple surgeries after a collision with a tractor-trailer on Interstate 66; successfully demonstrated the connection between his injuries and the initial crash despite defense challenges.
• Secured a $1,100,00 settlement for an 8-year-old child permanently injured after being struck by a package delivery driver who veered to the wrong side of the street, causing significant damage to the child's knee and long-term physical and emotional challenges.
• Secured a $1,475,000 settlement for a client with rheumatoid arthritis who fractured his elbow after tripping over a displaced cement slab in an outdoor retail courtyard, a condition found to violate the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code.