Meet Jon Mani
Jon Mani is a founding partner of Mani Ellis & Layne, PLLC, and an experienced personal injury attorney dedicated to representing individuals who have suffered serious and life-altering injuries. With more than 20 years of courtroom experience, he focuses on catastrophic injury and complex personal injury litigation across West Virginia and Ohio.
Jon brings a competitive, trial-driven mindset to his practice, combined with a strong commitment to helping injured clients rebuild their lives. Earlier in his career, he worked on the defense side in medical malpractice cases, giving him valuable insight into how insurance companies and large institutions approach litigation.
Throughout his career, Jon has played a key leadership role in the legal community. He served as President of the West Virginia Association for Justice in 2020 and is known for advocating collaboration within the legal profession to improve access to justice and strengthen public trust in the court system.
Jon and his firm have secured hundreds of millions of dollars in recoveries for injured clients, including major verdicts and settlements involving brain injuries, medical malpractice, wrongful death, product liability, and environmental contamination. Notable outcomes include a $151 million class action related to water contamination, a $4 million wrongful death product liability verdict, and multiple seven-figure results in construction, trucking, and nursing home negligence cases.
His practice focuses on serious injury matters such as traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, severe burns, amputations, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse, commercial truck accidents, and wrongful death claims.