About Ken
Ken Gibson began his professional path in law after completing undergraduate studies in foreign affairs at the University of Virginia and earning a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law. He graduated from UVA in 1990 and finished law school in 1994. Those credentials set the stage for a career split between public service and private practice.
His first role out of law school was as an associate at the Law Offices of Douglas P. McGee in Richmond in 1994. The following year he joined Legislative Services for the Virginia General Assembly as a staff lawyer, a position that exposed him to the mechanics of state lawmaking and legislative drafting. In 1998 he moved into prosecution as an Assistant Commonwealth’s Lawyer in Norfolk, gaining courtroom experience and handling criminal matters at the local level.
In 2004 he took a federal post in Washington, D.C., serving as Deputy Chief of the Special Litigation and Criminal Sections of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. In that capacity he supervised litigation and assisted in managing matters that raised complex civil rights and criminal law questions. He later returned to private practice and opened the Law Office of Kenneth Gibson in 2009, where he built a small practice handling a range of civil and criminal matters.
In 2013 he joined GibsonSingleton Virginia Injury Lawyers as a partner. That move aligned him with a firm devoted to injury law and allowed him to concentrate more consistently on civil litigation on behalf of injured plaintiffs. Over the years he has handled trials and appeals, and he continues to split time between preparing cases for court and negotiating settlements.
Gibson's professional affiliations reflect a mix of local and national engagement. He is a current member of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association and the American Association of Justice and has belonged to the Middle Peninsula Bar Association since 2009. Those memberships keep him connected to peers and developments in litigation practice across the state and country.
Colleagues describe a lawyer who has shifted comfortably between public and private roles. He brings prosecutorial experience and federal litigation management to his work on behalf of individuals who have suffered injuries. He lives and practices in Virginia and continues to handle trial-level and appellate matters, representing clients at GibsonSingleton Virginia Injury Lawyers where his work centers on personal injury and related civil litigation.
