Diana Leigh Jacobs

Diana Jacobs focuses her practice on litigation, with an emphasis on toxic tort litigation, products liability, premises liability, class actions and asbestos litigation. She also has experience defending medical monitoring claims.

Most recently, Diana served as counsel for one of the country’s largest pharmacies/supermarkets in the National Prescription Opiate Litigation pending before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. The National Prescription Opiate Litigation is the major opioid national multidistrict litigation (MDL 2804) presided over by a federal judge in Ohio but affecting nearly every state in the country. Diana managed litigation in Alaska, Utah, and Illinois. She also defended and conducted depositions of key witnesses and experts across the country.

Since 2013, Diana has consistently been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America ^® for her Mass Torts Litigation / Class Actions—Defendants practice.

Diana is a 2020 Fellow of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity and previously served as the firm's Assistant Diversity Partner. She is a past Chair of the Bowles Rice Wellness Committee, has been a member of the firm's Recruiting Committee, and currently serves as a member of the firm's Executive Committee.

Diana is admitted to practice in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

• Past Chair, Bowles Rice Wellness Committee
• Member, Bowles Rice Recruiting Committee
• Former Bowles Rice Assistant Diversity Partner
• Former Assistant Prosecutor, Kanawha County Prosecutor's Office
• Advanced Trial Advocacy Institute, Charlottesville, Virginia (2004)

• Named Best Lawyers’ Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants Lawyer of the Year in the southern West Virginia region (2022)
• Named to The Best Lawyers in America ® (Mass Torts Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants) 2013-present
• Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, 2020 Fellow
• Named to “Generation Next: 40 Under 40" by The State Journal (2010)

• Ohio Bar
• Pennsylvania Bar
• West Virginia Bar 
• Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (FDCC)
• Defense Research Institute (DRI)
  • West Virginia State Representative (2023 – present) 
  • DRI Toxic Torts and Environmental Law, Membership Chair (2017 – 2018)
  • DRI Women in the Law
  • DRI Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Seminar Planning Committee (2008 – present)
  • DRI for Life Committee
• Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia (Board Member, 2019 – present)
• Ohio Women's Bar Association 
• Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys (OACTA)
• Columbus Bar Association
• Columbus Lawyer's Club
• Campaign for Legal Aid; 2009 – 2010 Leadership Committee

• New Albany Plain Local School District – Citizen Advisory Committee for Student Belonging (Committee appointment by school board, September 2023 – May 2024)

• New Albany High School PTO (September 2023 – present)

• New Albany Women’s Network (NAWN) (January 2020 – present)
• Cemetery Restoration Advisory Board (CRAB), City of New Albany (August 2022 – present)
• New Albany Citizens’ Police Academy (Participant 2022)
• Pride New Albany (Board Member)
• Charleston F. C. Goal Club, Inc. (Board Member)
• Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council (Past Volunteer)
• Mountaineer Montessori School (Former Board Member)
• YMCA of Kanawha Valley (Former Board Member)
• West Virginia Women's Commission (Commissioner by gubernatorial appointment, June 2018 – June 2020 )