Deborah Mancoll Casey
Practice Focus:
Community Associations
Creditors’ Rights, Bankruptcy
and Collections
Contracts
Commercial Real Estate
Contact Information
Norfolk Office
500 World Trade Center
Norfolk, Virginia 23510
(757) 446-8600
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Debbie is a partner with Vandeventer Black and concentrates her practice in Community Association Law, Creditors’ Rights, Contracts and Commercial Leasing. She is one of a small number of attorneys in the country who practice Community Association Law, a relatively new, trend setting area. Debbie represents a large roster of community associations in the region. Her clients include a variety of condominium and property owners associations, as well as mixed use and planned communities. She has worked with community associations on the spectrum of legal issues, ranging from transition to aging properties; from drafting, amending and interpreting documents to enforcement of covenants, litigation and mediation; from defective construction to major repair projects from financing and fund management to assessment collection and foreclosures; from insurance to management concerns; from ADA issues to FHA complaints and as corporate counsel. Debbie has broad experience representing creditors and property owners in bankruptcy and extensive experience in commercial leasing and focuses on contracts, in general.
Debbie graduated from the ivy league prep school Choate Rosemary Hall in 1981. She received her B.A.(cum laude) from Emory University in 1984 and her J.D. from The College of William and Mary School of Law in 1987.
She is Past President (2001) of the Community Associations Institute, Southeastern Virginia Chapter (SEVA-CAI), is a frequent speaker at the Chapter’s programs and was awarded the Chapter’s Distinguished Service Award (2002). In 2004, she was presented the SEVA-CAI Hall of Fame award. Debbie was the first lawyer and remains one of only two lawyers from Southeastern Virginia to be admitted to CAI National’s prestigious College of Community Association Lawyers (CCAI), a specialty bar. The purpose of CCAL is to acknowledge CAI member attorneys who have distinguished themselves through contributions to the evolution or practice of community association law and who have committed themselves to high standards of professional and ethical conduct. She was elected to CAI’s Virginia Legislative Action Committee (VALAC) in 2004 and was elected Chair in 2008.
Debbie served on the Board of Zoning Appeals for the City of Chesapeake from 1999-2002, as Vice President for the majority of her tenure. She served on the Virginia State Bar Council Disciplinary Committee for the Second District from 1997-2000. She was selected as one of Hampton Roads’ Top Forty Under Forty for 2001 by Inside Business magazine and their Women in Business Achievement Award for 2005. She is also listed in Virginia Business magazine’s Legal Elite for 2007, 2008 and 2009 and Super Lawyers 2010. Debbie was selected by Virginia Lawyers Media for the 2010 "Influential Women of Virginia". She is AV ® rated by Martindale Hubbell Law Directory, which is the highest quality and ethics rating possible for attorneys.