Areas Of Practice
Accounting Malpractice Defense
Vandeventer Black’s Accounting Malpractice Defense team is experienced in handling all types of professional liability claims against accounting professionals, addressing some of the most complex cases imaginable.
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
The Business Practice at Vandeventer Black provides a wide variety of services for our clients, ranging from start-up to sale, merger or dissolution of all types of legal entities.
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.
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.
Community Associations
As the number of Community Associations and planned communities multiply, Vandeventer Black’s Community Association practice provides legal counsel catered specifically to the needs of condominium and property owners associations.
Construction
Vandeventer Black’s Construction Law Group is part of your team. We bring experience with all phases of construction and infrastructure projects to the table — from the initial proposal and financing considerations, through team and joint venture formation, design, construction, maintenance and operations.
Creditors’ Rights, Bankruptcy and Collections
The Creditors’ Rights, Bankruptcy and Collections team of the Commercial Department has a broad range of experience in advising clients and negotiating on complex credit, bankruptcy and insolvency related matters.
Criminal
Vandeventer Black’s Criminal Law team has extensive defense experience in both Federal and State courts in Virginia and North Carolina.
Eminent Domain and Land Use
Vandeventer Black’s Eminent Domain & Land Use team represents clients ranging from individual property owners and small businesses to developers, large companies, utilities and municipalities.
Environmental
Vandeventer Black’s Environmental Law Group offers a full range of services to meet our clients’ needs in industrial applications, development projects, and commercial transactions.
Family Law
Vandeventer Black's Divorce and Family Law practice is designed to meet the needs of our business clients and community contacts. We will zealously protect your legal interests, whether through strong advocacy and litigation or negotiation and mediation. We focus on developing the best strategy for in complex divorce, support, equitable distribution, and custody matters.
General Litigation
Vandeventer Black’s General Litigation group represents clients in a broad range of litigation and arbitration matters.
Government Contracts
Vandeventer Black’s Public Contracts Law team has the practical and legal experience to guide our clients through an often daunting maze of regulations.
Health Care
Vandeventer Black’s Health Care team stays abreast of the most recent health care trends and developments in order to provide our clients the best possible advice in dealing with the myriad of issues confronting health care providers.
Immigration
Vandeventer Black’s Immigration Law Group represents businesses currently located, or seeking to locate, in the U.S. with strategies to help expedite and facilitate the transfer of personnel to their U.S. operations. The Immigration Law Group also provides wide-ranging assistance for the families of foreign national workers and with other types of family-based cases.
Intellectual Property
Vandeventer Black's 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. Our goal is to ensure that our clients maximize, protect and utilize their intellectual property assets to their fullest potential.
International Business
The International Business Group at Vandeventer Black services the needs of international investors seeking to locate operations in or trade with the United States, and U.S. companies setting up operations internationally or engaging in international trade.
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, including discrimination claims, union avoidance, NLRB charges, wrongful discharge, breach of contract suits, trade secret/unfair competition suits, wage and hour, employee benefits, workers’ compensation defense, immigration, and employee relations counseling and training.
Legal Malpractice Defense
Vandeventer Black’s 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
Vandeventer Black has a tradition of representing maritime clients for over 120 years. Our Maritime and Admiralty Law team represents domestic and international interests in virtually all areas of marine law.
Medical Malpractice Defense
Vandeventer Black’s Medical Malpractice Defense team addresses some of the most complex cases imaginable. Our clients range from physicians, dentists, physical therapists and other healthcare providers to practice groups, long-term care facilities and hospitals.
Professional Liability Defense
Vandeventer Black’s Professional Liability Defense for Design Professionals team is experienced in defending architects, engineers, contractors and subcontractors in project design and construction matters of all types.
Ship Repair
Vandeventer Black's Ship Repair 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.
Tax
Vandeventer Black’s Tax team works with 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.
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.
