“Our experienced team works diligently with local governments, providing representation and counsel, and being mindful of our role as good stewards of taxpayer dollars in the region.”
We are a multi-disciplinary Government & Municipal Law team that provides practical and economical solutions to issues faced by government and municipal officials in the mid-Atlantic region. Our team provides daily and long-term support to municipalities and government, streamlining and strengthening your results. Our team has a dedicated focus on:
Airport operations
Authority representation
Bond financing (tax-exempt and taxable) including all facets of financing municipal and authority projects
We work with our clients on various issues ranging from day-to-day operational needs to complex bond counsel financing, labor and employment matters, construction litigation, and opioid litigation. As community leaders strive to make the best decisions possible, they need to have the counsel of an experienced government and municipal law team on their side. Our team works diligently with clients in a collaborative effort to remove roadblocks, reduce risks, and capitalize on opportunities to provide best-in-class representation.
Our multi-disciplinary Government & Municipal Law Team serves as counsel and advisors to government and municipal officials seeking practical solutions to legal issues affecting local government, including daily and long-term support to municipalities and governmental entities, with an emphasis on the following legal services:
Airport operations
Authority representation
Airports
Economic Development
Hospitals
Transportation
Bond financing (tax-exempt and taxable) including all facets of financing municipal and authority projects including
General Obligation Bonds
Revenue Bonds
Airport Bonds
Multifamily Housing Bonds
Transportation Bonds
Health Care and Senior Housing Bonds
Water and Sewer Revenue Bonds
Tax Increment Financing Bonds
Civil litigation
Construction
Acquisition and development
Contracts
Bond claims and mechanics lien claims (Public-Private Projects)
Leasing, lending, foreclosures, financing
Litigation
PPEA
Dispute Resolution, Litigation, Mediation and Arbitration
Economic development
Development Agreements
Loan and Grant Award Program Agreements
Organizational Governance and General Counsel
Bond Financings
Organization and representation of community development authorities, regional industrial facility authorities and commissions
Employment law
Personnel policies
Handbooks
Discrimination
Personnel records
Wage hour requirements
FMLA, HIPAA and the ADA
Environmental law
Freedom of Information Act
Negotiation of regional authority contracts
Opioid litigation
Our litigation team represents local governments across the country in lawsuits against manufacturers and distributors of powerful and addictive opioid painkillers. The lawsuits charge that members of the pharmaceutical industry have fueled dramatic increases in opioid abuse and deaths by indiscriminately flooding rural and urban communities with prescription opioids. The drugs in question include brand names, such as OxyContin, as well as generics
The lawsuits contend that pharmaceutical companies overstated the benefits and downplayed the risks of using opioids and that distributors failed to monitor suspicious orders of prescription opiates. As a result, local governments have been burdened with a range of costs associated with services needed to fight the crisis, including treatment centers and medical services for addicted residents
We represent a diverse clientele, working with city and town attorneys, human resource departments, and school board members to address issues that often include:
Airports
Cities and towns
Commissions
Economic development entities
Local counties
Sanitation
School boards
Other public entities within the Commonwealth of Virginia
Although we encourage you to contact us if you have a legal matter requiring attention, any information you communicate to us by e-mail will not be assumed of confidential treatment until we agree that there is an attorney-client relationship between us. Nor will any communication between us establish such a relationship, unless and until we specially agree to serve as your attorneys, which we will not be able to do if you communicate with us by e-mail in connection with a matter for which we already represent you. You should be aware that the security of Internet e-mail is uncertain. By sending confidential or sensitive e-mail messages which are not encrypted you accept the risks of such uncertainty and possible lack of confidentiality over the Internet.
Although we encourage you to contact us if you have a legal matter requiring attention, any information you communicate to us by e-mail will not be assumed of confidential treatment until we agree that there is an attorney-client relationship between us. Nor will any communication between us establish such a relationship, unless and until we specially agree to serve as your attorneys, which we will not be able to do if you communicate with us by e-mail in connection with a matter for which we already represent you. You should be aware that the security of Internet e-mail is uncertain. By sending confidential or sensitive e-mail messages which are not encrypted you accept the risks of such uncertainty and possible lack of confidentiality over the Internet.
