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John P. Fishwick Jr. is a nationally recognized trial lawyer who represents individuals throughout Virginia in high-stakes civil and criminal matters. A Roanoke native, John has built his career handling difficult cases in the courtroom and in matters that draw public attention. Many of the cases he handles are referred by other lawyers who trust him with their most challenging matters.
From 2015 to 2017, John served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia after being appointed by President Obama and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. As the district’s chief law enforcement officer, he focused on prosecuting violent crime and addressing the heroin and opioid epidemic, while also supporting gun violence prevention and offender reentry efforts.
In private practice, John has represented clients in personal injury, wrongful death, and has defended individuals and companies facing federal criminal investigations or charges. He appears regularly as a legal analyst on national media outlets and has been quoted by leading publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Deeply committed to his community, John has also led and supported a number of civic initiatives in Roanoke.
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Carrol Mullen Ching is the Senior Associate at Fishwick & Associates PLC, where she focuses on civil litigation, including medical malpractice and personal injury cases, as well as federal criminal defense. She is known for bringing both legal insight and financial fluency to complex matters, helping clients navigate difficult situations with practical, steady counsel.
Before entering the legal profession, Carrol spent more than a decade in accounting, including as a certified public accountant at Deloitte and in financial roles with major companies. That background gives her a strong advantage in cases involving commercial disputes, damages, and complicated financial records. Clients value her ability to bring clarity and structure to challenging cases.
A Virginia native, Carrol has called Southwest Virginia home since earning her law degree from Washington and Lee University School of Law in 2004, where she graduated summa cum laude. She then clerked for the Honorable Glen E. Conrad of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, serving as both a term and career law clerk, before entering private practice.
Throughout her career, Carrol has handled personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, civil rights, commercial law, and vaccine-related injury matters, and she also represents clients in local government proceedings involving land use and regulatory issues. Outside her practice, she enjoys hiking and kayaking with her family, tending a large vegetable garden, reading, and caring for a lively household of chickens, cats, a rescue dog, and tropical fish.
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Daniel J. Martin is an associate attorney at Fishwick & Associates PLC, where he focuses his practice on personal injury, federal criminal defense and zoning matters. Clients know him as responsive, thorough, and genuinely invested in helping them through difficult and high-stakes situations.
Originally from Northern Virginia, Daniel made the Roanoke Valley his home after graduating magna cum laude from Washington and Lee University School of Law in 2017. During law school, he worked in the technology industry, interned with respected state and federal judges, and served as an editor of the Washington and Lee Law Review. His student note, Dispersing the Cloud: Reaffirming the Right to Destroy in a New Era of Digital Property, 74 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 467 (2017), earned the 2016 Roy L. Steinheimer Award for Outstanding Student Note.
After law school, Daniel clerked for the circuit judges of the Augusta County Circuit Court before joining Fishwick & Associates in 2018. He now represents clients in personal injury matters involving motor vehicle accidents, tractor trailer collisions, slip and fall cases, and other serious injuries, while also handling land use and zoning matters for individuals and businesses across Virginia.
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Laura L. Wagner is an associate at Fishwick & Associates PLC and serves as the firm’s legal research and writing specialist. For more than three decades, she has built a reputation as the attorney other lawyers rely on when a case calls for careful legal analysis, a strong brief, or a persuasive appellate argument. Her work plays a central role in the firm’s litigation strategy, and she has worked closely with John Fishwick for more than twenty-seven years on personal injury, commercial, civil rights, and criminal defense matters.
Laura earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia in 1982 and her J.D. from the George Mason University School of Law in 1990. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable David G. Lowe, United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, gaining valuable insight into how federal judges evaluate briefs, authority, and legal arguments.
Before joining Fishwick & Associates, Laura practiced with Wagner and Wagner, where she focused on appellate work, represented indigent individuals in civil and criminal matters, and developed a dedicated research and writing practice. She later served as a research attorney at Lichtenstein Law Group and its predecessor firms before continuing her work with John Fishwick at Fishwick & Associates. Known for her precision, clarity, and disciplined approach, Laura has helped shape litigation strategy and outcomes in cases across Virginia for decades.
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