About Teena

Teena Y. Miller is a personal injury and trial attorney with more than 25 years of litigation experience representing clients in West Virginia and Ohio. Licensed in both states, Teena brings decades of courtroom experience, strategic preparation, and determined advocacy to individuals and families whose lives have been changed by the negligence or wrongdoing of others. Throughout her career, she has handled significant personal injury claims, commercial trucking crashes, wrongful death, insurance bad faith matters, dram shop claims, and other complex civil litigation.

Teena brings a particularly valuable perspective to representing injured people because she has spent her career on both sides of the civil courtroom. For the first 14 years of her practice, Teena was a litigation defense attorney with Jackson Kelly, PLLC, where she became a partner and represented defendants in complex litigation. That experience gave her firsthand insight into how defendants, insurers, and defense attorneys investigate claims, evaluate risk, develop litigation strategy, value claims, and prepare cases for trial.

In 2014, Teena made the decision to devote her practice to representing injured people. She joined Gold, Khourey & Turak, where she became the firm's first female partner, managed its Ohio litigation cases, and supervised attorneys and staff. While there, Teena obtained a $1.5 million jury verdict in Monroe County, Ohio, on behalf of an injured client against a drunk driver and the bars that overserved her.

Teena puts her experience to work for her clients at The Injury Rights Law Firm. She understands how defendants and their lawyers evaluate cases-and how important it is to begin preparing a case for trial long before anyone enters the courtroom. She approaches each case by identifying the evidence that matters, anticipating the arguments the defense is likely to make, and developing a strategy designed to tell her client's story clearly and persuasively.

For Teena, however, effective representation is about more than litigation strategy. People often come to a personal injury lawyer during one of the most difficult periods of their lives. An injury can affect far more than a person's physical health. It can change a career, disrupt a family, threaten financial security, take away independence, and alter plans for the future. Teena believes clients deserve an attorney who will listen to them, communicate honestly with them, understand what they have lost, and make sure their story is heard. Whether she is negotiating with an insurance company, taking a deposition, arguing a motion, participating in mediation, or standing before a jury, Teena's goal remains the same: to protect her client's rights and pursue the accountability and compensation they deserve.

Teena earned her Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law, a top tier law school nationwide. While there, she was named to the Dean's List and received the Gressman Pollitt Award for Best Oral Argument. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with an Honors Minor from West Virginia Wesleyan College, graduating magna cum laude in just three years. Her academic accomplishments include numerous scholarships, leadership awards, and memberships in several honor societies.

Teena has been admitted to practice law in West Virginia since 2000 and Ohio since 2001. She is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia, and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

Outside of her law practice, Teena is married to Ty Miller, a Chief Warrant Officer 5 in the West Virginia Army National Guard. Together, they are the proud parents of four college- and high-school-aged children, one of whom also serves in the West Virginia Army National Guard. Teena is a member of Mensa and serves on the Wheeling Symphony Auxiliary Board. She has also served on the Boards of Youth Services System, Harmony House, Florence Crittenton, St. Vincent School, and St. Michael Parish Finance Council; previously served as a Big Sister with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America; and was a member of Junior League of Wheeling. Her involvement in the Wheeling community, where she grew up, reflects the same connection to people and service that has shaped her professional life.

When asked to name her favorite lawyer movie, Teena has a hard time choosing just one. Two stand out: A Few Good Men and Erin Brockovich. A Few Good Men reflects her deep respect for military service, being a military wife and mother herself, while Erin Brockovich speaks to her passion for advocating for injured people and standing up for individuals and families against powerful corporations. The themes behind both films resonate with Teena personally and professionally: service, perseverance, justice and accountability, and the willingness to fight for people who deserve to be heard.