About
Pat Jacobs is a Charleston, West Virginia, lawyer who has represented injured and disabled people for more than four decades. Jacobs handles workers compensation, Social Security disability, and personal injury claims, including matters involving coal mining injuries and deaths, vehicle crashes, defective medical products, dangerous drugs, asbestos exposure, mesothelioma, and occupational lung disease. The practice also addresses employment issues affecting workers and their families.
Jacobs has spent more than forty years representing injured and disabled clients across West Virginia. That long practice includes workers compensation, Social Security disability, personal injury, coal mining injury and death, defective medical products, dangerous drugs, asbestos exposure, mesothelioma, and occupational lung disease. The breadth of this work requires careful use of medical records, employment histories, disability evidence, accident documentation, and the procedural rules governing benefit and injury claims.
Jacobs has handled claims arising from coal mines, industrial work, motor vehicle and truck crashes, dangerous products, asbestos exposure, and disabling medical conditions. The practice includes both injury litigation and benefit claims, allowing him to assist clients whose legal problems may involve compensation for an accident as well as longer-term disability concerns. These matters often require medical documentation, employment records, and careful attention to administrative or court procedures.
Pat Jacobs has built a long-running practice around the needs of workers, injured people, and individuals seeking disability benefits. Jacobs focuses on practical representation in claims that can affect a client’s health, income, and ability to work. By addressing the evidence and legal standards applicable to each matter, Jacobs helps clients pursue available remedies in workers compensation, Social Security disability, personal injury, and occupational disease cases.
Law Office Affiliations
- Attorney, Jacobs Law Office
- Member, The West Virginia State Bar
Licensed State
- West Virginia
Awards & Badges

- Car Accidents
- Medical Malpractice
- Mesothelioma & Asbestos
- Products Liability
- Slip & Fall Accidents
- Trucking Accidents
- Wrongful Death
- Social Security & Disability
- Workers' Compensation





