Attorneys

Patricia Bugg "P.J." Turner joined Spotts Fain's litigation section in 2008.  Her practice focuses in products liability defense, toxic torts defense and commercial litigation.  Prior to joining Spotts Fain, P.J. gained valuable experience participating in multiple asbestos-related products liability trials, each lasting two weeks, and was involved in two appeals to the Supreme Court of Virginia and one appeal to the United States Supreme Court.

P.J. received her B.A. in Spanish from Davidson College in 2003 and her J.D. from the Loyola University New Orleans School of Law in 2006, where she was an oralist on the National Moot Court Team and served as Comment and Case Note Editor for the Maritime Law Journal.

While at Davidson, P.J. was a member of the varsity women's soccer team and also spent a semester in Seville, Spain in a Study Abroad Program.

P.J. was raised in the Northern Neck of Virginia in Northumberland County and attended boarding school in Middletown, Delaware at St. Andrew's School.