Kevin Sharp
Kevin Sharp has a unique insight into brain anatomy and function, issues he deals with while handling Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) cases. While in undergraduate school in the early 90s at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Kevin was diagnosed with a brain tumor, which was successfully eradicated with radiation.
Early in his career with Taylor and Walker, Kevin worked with Jim Brydges on several TBI cases. He quickly invested a significant amount of time and effort learning about the science of the brain, developing strategies in addressing the science of brain injury, and the application of that science to the legal context. Soon he was assisting other attorneys, both for the plaintiff and defendant, in the preparation of their cases. He and Brydges have given presentations and continuing legal education seminars to lawyers, insurance professionals and aspiring medical students.
Professionals, both legal and medical who work in the area of brain injury litigation are a close-knit group with overlapping contacts. One contact was Gary Chiaverotti, a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, a global consulting firm, who had endured a personal tragedy when his wife, Lynn, died as a result of TBI. Gary, determined to not let her death be the final chapter of her life, formed the Lynn Chiaverotti Memorial Fund to raise money for awareness, education, and advocacy regarding the dangers associated with brain injury. In the Tidewater area, Sharp and Brydges have worked with the Fund to help deliver the message of the importance of wearing a helmet when riding a bike or skateboard to area students.
The fund raises money through a series of charitable events and uses some of that money to produce their own line of helmets which are distributed free of charge to students. A major fund-raising event, a wine tasting to benefit The Lynn Chiaverotti Fund, was held March 9 at the No Frill Bar and Grill in Norfolk.
Kevin was born in D.C. and grew up in Northern Virginia. He and his wife first started married life after law school with jobs and careers in that area. Growing increasingly dissatisfied and overwhelmed with the explosion of growth and the lack of neighborhood character associated with that growth, the young couple remembered fondly their visits to Kathleen’s grandmother in Norfolk. “Super G” as her Grandmother was known, opened her home to them and they quit their jobs and moved to Norfolk. After a succession of apartments, they found a home in West Ghent and settled in shortly before the birth of their first child.
Kevin’s spirit of public service is evident. Joining the Rotary Club of Norfolk in 2005, he participates in Rotary’s literacy efforts with young children in Tidewater. Among other activities, Rotary raises money to purchase books for children as well as to provide children with books of their own. Going into the schools and reading to children is something he relishes. With two young boys at home, he and his wife, Kathleen, are active in the community of St. Patrick’s Catholic School where his older son attends and his wife teaches.
