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AccountingMalpractice

Accounting Malpractice

Vandeventer Black’s Accounting Malpractice Defense team is experienced in all types of professional liability claims against accounting professionals, addressing some of the most complex cases imaginable.
AlternativeDisputeResolution

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Alternative Dispute Resolution (“ADR”) has proven to be an effective and cost efficient substitute to resolve business, technical, and other types of disputes. Vandeventer Black’s ADR Practice Group attorneys serve as mediators, arbitrators, partnering facilitators, and neutrals in a variety of business and technical disputes.
BankingandFinance

Banking and Finance

The Banking & Finance team at Vandeventer Black is seasoned in a broad spectrum of business and legal issues facing the industry today.
Business

Business

Providing a wide variety of services for our clients, ranging from start-up to sale, merger or dissolution of all types of legal entities.
CommercialLitigation

Commercial Litigation

Vandeventer Black’s Commercial Litigation practice focuses on disputes specifically related to the course of doing everyday business, including commercial transactions, real estate matters, and tax and estate issues.
CommercialRealEstate

Commercial Real Estate

Vandeventer Black’s real estate clients benefit from the firm’s skill and experience in real estate investment, finance, acquisitions and development, as well as supporting practice areas including tax, environmental, bankruptcy, ERISA, litigation and alternative dispute resolution.
CommunityAssociations

Community Associations

The Community Association practice provides legal counsel catered specifically to the needs of condominium and property owners associations.
Construction

Construction

We bring experience with all phases of construction and infrastructure projects, proposal and financing considerations, team and joint venture formation, design, construction, maintenance and operations.
ConstructionDefect

Construction Defect

Vandeventer Black handles construction defect litigation with a team approach. Our construction team members include licensed attorneys with hands-on construction experience, as well as degreed engineers, and a registered architect.
CreditorsRightsBankruptcyandCollections

Creditors' Rights, Bankruptcy and Collections

Our Creditors’ Rights attorneys specialize in critical disciplines including: banking and finance; business litigation and breach of contract; debt restructuring workouts; collections and foreclosure; and bankruptcy law.
DirectorOfficerLiability

Director & Officer Liability

Vandeventer Black LLP has significant experience in the representation of corporate officers, directors, and board committees from a variety of public, private and closely-held businesses.
EminentDomainandLandUse

Eminent Domain and Land Use

Representing clients ranging from individual property owners and small businesses to developers, large companies, utilities and municipalities.
Energy

Energy

The Vandeventer Black Energy Practice Group is comprised of a multi-disciplinary team of professionals with experience in the range of issues affecting development and operation of energy generating and transmission facilities.
Environmental

Environmental

The firm’s Environmental Law practice group assists our clients with a variety of environmental permitting, regulatory compliance, and enforcement-related matters.
ERISA

ERISA

Vandeventer Black’s ERISA & Employee Benefits Team partners with our clients for all their employee benefits needs. Our attorneys are experienced in the full range of retirement and welfare benefit issues.
FinancialServicesandSecurities

Financial Services and Securities

Vandeventer Black’s capability in professional liability matters includes significant experience in Financial Services and Securities disputes.
GeneralLitigation

General Litigation

Vandeventer Black’s General Litigation group represents clients in a broad range of litigation and arbitration matters.
GovernmentContracts

Government Contracts

Vandeventer Black’s Government Contracts attorneys team with our clients to help them achieve their business vision and goals.
GovernmentInvestigationsandEnforcement

Government Investigations and Enforcement

We represent individuals and companies in all stages of regulatory, civil, and criminal investigations.
HealthCare

Health Care

Providing our clients the best possible advice in dealing with the myriad of issues confronting health care providers.
Immigration

Immigration

The Vandeventer Black Immigration Law Group provides a full range of immigration services for businesses and individuals.
InsuranceCoverageDefense

Insurance Coverage Defense

Our Insurance Coverage Defense attorneys team with our clients to help them achieve their business vision and goals. Our mission is to provide excellent, innovative, and cost effective legal services for our clients.
IntellectualProperty

Intellectual Property

The Intellectual Property team provides a wide range of services relating to patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other intellectual property issues to a variety of businesses, organizations and individuals.
InternationalBusiness

International Business

The International Business Team at Vandeventer Black services the needs of international investors (businesses or individuals) seeking to locate operations in or trade with the United States. We also serve U.S. companies setting up operations internationally or engaging in international trade.
LaborandEmployment

Labor and Employment

Vandeventer Black’s Labor & Employment team represents a wide variety of organizations and businesses in labor and employment law and litigation matters.
LegalMalpracticeDefense

Legal Malpractice Defense

The Legal Malpractice Defense team is experienced in handling all types of professional liability claims against attorneys, working with some of the nation’s top insurance carriers.
Maritime

Maritime

Our Maritime and Admiralty Law team represents domestic and international interests in virtually all areas of marine law.
MedicalMalpracticeDefense

Medical Malpractice Defense

Our clients range from physicians, dentists, physical therapists and other healthcare providers to practice groups, long-term care facilities and hospitals.
ProfessionalLiabilityDefense

Professional Liability Defense

Defending architects, engineers, contractors and subcontractors in project design and construction matters of all types.
ShipRepairandShipBuilding

Ship Repair and Ship Building

Vandeventer Black’s Ship Repair and Ship Building team combines over 120 years of admiralty expertise with our contracting and government contracting experience to represent shipyards of all sizes throughout the country, including the Port of Hampton Roads, Florida and Gulf Coasts, and the West Coast.
SportsLaw

Sports Law

The Vandeventer Black Sports Law Practice services the needs of colleges and universities, amateur sports organizations, businesses, athletes, coaches, and other individuals involved in amateur and professional sports by bringing together the diverse practices, resources and experience of the entire firm to focus on sports-related issues.
SuretyandFidelityLaw

Surety and Fidelity Law

Our Surety and Fidelity Bond Practice Group includes attorneys with a variety of experience in complex legal matters involving sureties and their various bonds. We bring knowledge and experience in surety and related fidelity law matters, working as a team with our clients to satisfy their varied goals for individual matters.
Tax

Tax

We work with our business clients on their corporate tax planning, including general minimization techniques on federal, state and local levels, as well as transactional planning of acquisitions, mergers, liquidations, choice of entity and structuring issues.
TrustEstateEstatePlanning

Trust & Estate; Estate Planning

Our Trust & Estate attorneys provide personal service in structuring all types of trust arrangements, including Family Trusts, Revocable Trusts, Testamentary Trusts as well as Wills, Powers of Attorney, Advance Medical Directives (frequently referred to as “Living Wills”) and Health Care Powers of Attorney.
WhiteCollarGeneralCriminal

White Collar/General Criminal

We defend individuals and companies in federal and Virginia courts in matters ranging from alleged white collar and corporate offenses to homicide and street crimes. We have extensive experience in the courtroom, before juries, and in negotiating with government prosecutors, law enforcement officers, and regulators. We have experience with almost every federal and Virginia state law enforcement agency.
WorkersCompensationDefense

Workers' Compensation Defense

Vandeventer Black’s Workers’ Compensation Defense team works primarily with insurance carriers, mutual associations and self-insured businesses – offering legal defense strategies for both state and federal workers’ compensation claims.

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