Ed Tiffey is a native of Washington, D.C. He is a 1983 graduate of Gonzaga College High School and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and History cum laude from Dickinson College in 1987. Ed completed his legal education at Washington & Lee University in 1990 where he was a member of the National Moot Court Team during his second year. Upon graduation from W&L, he began a two-year clerkship with The Honorable Elizabeth V. Hallanan, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia.

   Ed completed his clerkship and entered private practice in 1992 with Flaherty, Sensabaugh & Bonasso. He became a partner of the firm in 1997. In 1998, Ed served as a special prosecutor in the matter of State of West Virginia v. Terry and as liaison counsel for physicians in West Virginia's diet drug litigation.

   At the end 1998, Ed left private practice to serve as Counsel to the Governor of West Virginia. He advised West Virginia's chief executive for two years, served as the Governor's designee to the Investment Management Board and the Consolidated Public Retirement Board, and was a liaison to West Virginia's legislature, government agencies, boards and commissions, judiciary, trade associations, private industry, and the federal government. Following his public service, Ed resumed his law practice in
June 2001.

   Ed is a member of the West Virginia and Pennsylvania bars, The Judge John A. Field, Jr. American Inn of Court and the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. Currently, Ed is a member of the Washington & Lee Alumni Board of Directors, Dickinson Business Exchange and St. Thomas More Catholic Lawyers Society. He is a past member of the Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia Board of Governors and the West Virginia Law Institute.