Harry G. “Chip” Shaffer III is a West Virginia attorney who dedicated a 45-year career to helping people with accident and injury cases, insurance claims, coal mining accidents, real estate matters, coal, gas, and timber industry issues, closely held business matters and wills and estates.
His grandfather, Harry G. Shaffer, Sr., founded Shaffer & Shaffer in 1909. His father, Harry G. Shaffer, Jr., joined the firm in 1950. He looked up to them and followed in their footsteps.
Chip now serves in an of counsel capacity at Shaffer & Shaffer, providing decades of insights to the firm’s West Virginia lawyers.
Caring for West Virginians who are struggling was his career motivation.
He saw how the downturn in coal mining hurt hard-working people in Boone County. Born and raised in Madison himself, Chip was driven in his law practice to help people—some of whom he has known all his life—secure better financial futures.
His dedication to the community was also clear in his nonprofit work. He founded the Boone County Community Foundation, which raises money for charitable organizations, schools, and local governments to help less-advantaged people meet their basic human needs.
The foundation is based at Shaffer & Shaffer’s office in Madison. It has built a $3 million endowment and issued $1 million in grants so far.
After more than 100 years in West Virginia, Shaffer & Shaffer now has offices in Charleston and Madison, helping people with personal injury, employment discrimination, Social Security Disability claims, or corporate legal needs.
You can move forward from legal challenges if it’s not just you in the fight, but Shaffer & You.
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