Mark S. Brennan
Practice Focus:
Medical Malpractice Defense
Health Care
Long Term Care
Insurance Defense
Suretyship and Bonds
Labor & Employment
Litigation
Contact Information
Richmond Office
Eighth & Main Building
707 East Main Street,
Suite 1700
Richmond, VA 23218-1558
(804) 237-8804
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Mark is a partner with Vandeventer Black and concentrates his law practice in medical malpractice defense, long-term care industry defense, health care law, surety and bond litigation, legal malpractice defense, general insurance defense, personal injury and business and commercial litigation. With over 18 years of experience, Mark has tried numerous cases in state and federal courts.
He received a B.A. with honors from the University of Delaware and a J.D. from University of Richmond, T.C. Williams School of Law, where he was an Associate Editor of the Law Review. Mark is admitted to practice in all federal and state courts of Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the City of Richmond Bar Association, the Virginia Association of Defense Lawyers, the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, the Defense Research Institute, the American Trial Lawyers Association and the Virginia Bar Association.
Mark is also active in numerous civic, business and professional organizations, including the Health Planning Committee of the Virginia Health Care Association, Standing Committee on Professionalism of the Virginia State Bar, John Marshall Inn of Court, Tuckahoe Little League (Vice President), and Richmond Chapter of the Virginia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (President). He was selected as one of Virginia Business’ “Virginia Legal Elite” in 2005 in the field of Health Law.
Mark served as law clerk to the Honorable David G. Lowe, United States Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and as an officer for eight years in the U.S. Army Reserves Judge Advocate General’s Corps, Headquarters, XVIII Airborne Corps in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

