ANDREW S. NASON was born in Dayton, Ohio and obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1975 and his law degree at the University of North Carolina in 1978. He has lived in Charleston, West Virginia since 1979 where he began working as a Legal Aid attorney. Mr. Nason first became engaged in the general practice of law in 1981 when he began practicing with Bill Pepper. Pepper and Nason was formed in 1983.
Andy has argued cases before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, has conducted jury trials on various civil and criminal cases, and has litigated numerous cases and appeals. He has been very active in Bankruptcy Court, particularly in Chapter 13 wage earner cases, and has been a frequent speaker at dozens of seminars on bankruptcy and divorce in the state of West Virginia over the last 15 years. He is a past chairman of the Bankruptcy Committee of the West Virginia State Bar and is the past chair of the Family Law Committee and serves on the Board of Directors of the West Virginia Legal Aid. He was counsel for the debtor in the Monterra Development case, a lengthy and complicated Chapter 11 proceeding which eventually resulted in a payout to all creditors in excess of $20,000,000. Andy has been counsel in hundreds of domestic relations cases. He has been recognized annually in the “Best Lawyers in America” publication since 2001.