Seltzer, Cullen D.

Cullen Seltzer is a member of the Business and Professional Litigation practice group. His practice focuses on helping design and implement settlements in mass tort and mass claim litigation. In addition, he has a diverse civil litigation and corporate practice including representation of professional legal and medical firms in contract disputes

In 2002, he began representing the Claims Administrator for the class action settlement in In re Sulzer Hip Prosthesis and Knee Prosthesis Product Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1401. Since then, he has led the team that implemented that $1.1 Billion dollar settlement including defending the Claims Administrator in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and in the Supreme Court of the United States. He designed settlement implementation processes and guided the settlement through a series of challenges over the course of nearly five years. In other legal work, Mr. Seltzer has represented Fortune 500 companies in complex and traditional litigation matters.

Mr. Seltzer received his J.D. in 1993 from the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond, where he was a member of the Moot Court Board and was published by the Law Review. He received his B.A. from Mary Washington College in 1990 after majoring in International Affairs and was the recipient of the Anne E. Fitschen Award for the Outstanding Student in Political Science.

He is past-President of the John Marshall Inn of Court and a member of the Richmond Bar Association, past chair of the Virginia State Bar's Third District Committee for Lawyer Discipline, and currently a member of the faculty of the Virginia State Bar's Carrico Professionalism Course. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Richmond School of Law where he has taught appellate advocacy and courses on ethics in civil and criminal litigation. He has been listed in Richmond Magazine and Law and Politics Virginia Super Lawyers as a Rising Star (2008) and Super Lawyer (2009, 2010).

Mr. Seltzer serves on the Board and is President-Elect of the Weinstein Jewish Community Center, and is on the board of the Jewish Community Federation of Richmond.  In 2011, he was recognized with the Leroy Goldberg Leadership Award from the Weinstein JCC.

Among his hobbies, Mr. Seltzer enjoys reading, running, and bicycling. He is married and has two children.