08.15.2024 Firm News

136 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named to 2025 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America®

Williams Mullen is pleased to announce that 136 of the firm’s lawyers in 65 practice areas were selected for inclusion in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. In addition, nine attorneys were also named “Lawyers of the Year” by Best Lawyers® in their respective localities and practice areas.

The recognized attorneys given the title “Lawyers of the Year,” by office location, are:

Norfolk

Craig L. Mytelka – Trade Secrets Law

Tysons

David B. Albo – Administrative / Regulatory Law

Richmond

Farhad Aghdami – Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Trusts and Estates
W.F. Drewry Gallalee – Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Jamie Baskerville Martin – Health Care Law
Laura D. Windsor - Labor Law – Management

Raleigh

Mona Cunningham O'Bryant – Environmental Law
Sean M. Sullivan – Litigation – Environmental
Robert C. Van Arnam – Litigation – Patent

The recognized attorneys given the title “Best Lawyers,” by office location, are:

Charlottesville, VA

Thomas F. Bergert (2023)
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Patent Law
Valerie Wagner Long (2009)
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Real Estate Law
Lori H. Schweller (2015)
- Real Estate Law
- Land Use and Zoning Law
Ken Shevlin (*)
- Corporate Law

Columbia, SC

Jessica J. O. King (2018)
- Environmental Law
- Litigation – Environmental
Ryan W. Trail (2024)
- Environmental Law
Ethan R. Ware (2006)
- Environmental Law
- Litigation - Environmental
Richard H. Willis (1995)
- Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Norfolk, VA

George H. Bowles (2011)
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation - Banking and Finance
- Litigation - Construction
- Litigation - Real Estate
- Litigation - Securities
- Litigation - Trusts and Estates
Lawrence H. Bryant (2013)
- Real Estate Law
Elizabeth S. Chapman (*)
- Real Estate Law
Alyssa C. Dangler (2018)
- Real Estate Law
Patrick R. Hanes (2009)
- Commercial Litigation
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Litigation - Patent
Stephan J. Lipskis (*)
- Tax Law
Scott C. Miller (2022)
- Commercial Litigation
- Corporate Law
- Litigation - Construction
- Litigation - Insurance
- Litigation - Real Estate
- Litigation - Trusts and Estates
William L. Nusbaum (2008)
- Leisure and Hospitality Law
- Public Finance Law
- Real Estate Law
Grady A. Palmer (2024)
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Real Estate Law
Christine Nguyen Piersall (2018)
- Trusts and Estates

Raleigh, NC

Wyatt M. Booth (2024)
- Real Estate Law
Miles S. Bruder (2021)
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Wes J. Camden (2018)
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Amber R. Duncan (2024)
- Corporate Law
Kelly C. Hanley (2019)
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Law
David L. Hillman (2020)
- Real Estate Law
Thomas H. Johnson, Jr. (2021)
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Real Estate Law
M. Keith Kapp (2003)
- Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Energy Law
- Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants
- Legal Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs
- Litigation - Antitrust
Gilbert C. Laite III (2007)
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Law
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Litigation - Banking and Finance
- Litigation - Construction
- Litigation - Real Estate
- Railroad Law
- Real Estate Law
Robert Charles Lawson (2018)
- Real Estate Law
Michael C. Lord (2001)
- Employment Law - Management
- Litigation - Labor and Employment
Richard T. Matthews (2017)
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Patent Law
- Trademark Law
Jennifer A. Morgan (2019)
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
Mona Cunningham O'Bryant (2018)
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
- Environmental Law
David F. Paulson, Jr. (2011)
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
F. Michael Sajovec (2013)
- Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Litigation - Patent
- Patent Law
David M. Saravitz (2023)
- Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice
- Patent Law
Edward S. Schenk III (2013)
- Employment Law - Management
- Litigation - Labor and Employment
- Workers' Compensation Law - Employers
Andrew R. Shores (2020)
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Patent Law
- Trademark Law
Aaron G. Spencer (2015)
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Sean M. Sullivan (2020)
- Environmental Law
- Litigation – Environmental
Walter L. Tippett, Jr. (2013)
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Law
Robert C. Van Arnam (2014)
- Copyright Law
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Litigation - Patent
- Patent Law
Camden R. Webb (2012)
- Commercial Litigation
Lemuel D. Whitsett V (2024)
- Banking and Finance Law
Richard A. Zechini (2019)
- Government Relations Practice

Richmond, VA

Farhad Aghdami (2006)
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
- Tax Law
- Trusts and Estates
D. Earl Baggett (2016)
- Employment Law - Management
James T. Bailey (2023)
- Corporate Law
Jeremy A. Ball (2020)
- Health Care Law
William D. Bayliss (2001)
- Commercial Litigation
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
- Litigation - Construction
- Litigation - Real Estate
Wyatt S. Beazley IV (2010)
- Corporate Law
- Health Care Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
William J. Benos (2018)
- Immigration Law
Gregory R. Bishop (2013)
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Jonathan H. Bliley (2023)
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
J.P. McGuire Boyd, Jr. (2019)
- Litigation - Banking and Finance
Turner A. Broughton (2013)
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation - Banking and Finance
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Jamie Watkins Bruno (2019)
- Banking and Finance Law
- Real Estate Law
W. Alexander Burnett (2017)
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Law
- Litigation - Construction
Matthew E. Cheek (2012)
- Banking and Finance Law
- Real Estate Law
Janet W. Cho (2022)
- Copyright Law
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Trademark Law
Matthew M. Cobb (2018)
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
- Health Care Law
Jenny H. Connors (2022)
- Corporate Law
- Tax Law
 Richard P. Cunningham, Jr. (2016)
- Corporate Law
- Real Estate Law
- Securities / Capital Markets Law
Steven D. Delaney (2007)
- Litigation - Real Estate
- Real Estate Law
Anna K. Derewenda (2023)
- Corporate Law
- Tax Law
Robert C. Dewar (2009)
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Brydon M. DeWitt (2024)
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Allison T. Domson (2015)
- Real Estate Law
Daniel J. Durst (2018)
- Tax Law
- Trusts and Estates
Calvin W. Fowler, Jr. (2009)
- Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation - Banking and Finance
- Litigation - Mergers and Acquisitions
Jonathan A. Frank (2018)
- Real Estate Law
W.F. Drewry Gallalee (2011)
- Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
J. Conrad Garcia (2009)
- Tax Law
Philip H. Goodpasture (2007)
- Corporate Law
- Entertainment Law - Music
- Media Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Alexander C. Graham, Jr. (2016)
- Leisure and Hospitality Law
Andrea J. Harlow (2019)
- Banking and Finance Law
- Real Estate Law
Sean D. Hicks (*)
- Real Estate Law
A. Brooks Hock (2007)
- Real Estate Law
Eileen Setien Jackson (*)
- Real Estate Law
Charles E. James, Jr. (2015)
- Commercial Litigation
- Criminal Defense: General Practice
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Harold E. Johnson (2020)
- Litigation - Insurance
- Litigation - Mergers and Acquisitions
- Litigation - Securities
Matthew B. Kirsner (2011)
- Commercial Litigation
Otto W. Konrad (2018)
- Real Estate Law
Nathan A. Kottkamp (2024)
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
- Health Care Law
Kathy A. Lawrence (*)
- Corporate Law
David M. Lay (2013)
- Corporate Law
- Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Venture Capital Law
Gary D. LeClair (2006)
- Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice
- Corporate Law
- Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Private Funds / Hedge Funds Law
- Venture Capital Law
Lee G. Lester (2022)
- Corporate Law
Jennifer Ligon (*)
- Health Care Law
T. Preston Lloyd, Jr. (2018)
- Real Estate Law
Channing J. Martin (2007)
- Environmental Law
- Litigation - Environmental
Jamie Baskerville Martin (2005)
- Health Care Law
Nona K. Massengill (2024)
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- Tax Law
Andrew O. Mathews (2024)
- Commercial Litigation
Benjamin A. McCall (2022)
- Banking and Finance Law
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Mary Katherine McGetrick (2017)
- Real Estate Law
Jennifer M. McLemore (2013)
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation - Bankruptcy
John M. Mercer (2008)
- Real Estate Law
Michael D. Mueller (2022)
- Banking and Finance Law
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Financial Services Regulation Law
R. Joseph Noble (2018)
- Real Estate Law
Lauren D. Nowlin (2024)
- Real Estate Law
Brendan D. O'Toole (2017)
- Commercial Litigation
W. Benjamin Pace (2016)
- Litigation - Trusts and Estates
Richard D. Palmieri (*)
- Corporate Law
Laurence V. Parker, Jr. (2022)
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Corporate Governance Law
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Henry R. Pollard V (2018)
- Environmental Law
Marc Purintun (2013)
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Scott H. Richter (2010)
- Banking and Finance Law
- Corporate Governance Law
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Securities / Capital Markets Law
- Securities Regulation
Douglas L. Sbertoli (2011)
- Corporate Law
Edward R. Turnbull (2022)
- Corporate Law
Thomas G. Voekler (2019)
- Real Estate Law
John L. Walker, III (2007)
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation - Banking and Finance
- Litigation - Land Use and Zoning
- Litigation - Real Estate
Lauren W. Waller (2023)
- Commercial Litigation
Andrew W. White (2016)
- Corporate Governance Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Edward T. White (2015)
- Copyright Law
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Trademark Law
Laura D. Windsor (2015)
- Employment Law - Management
- Insurance Law
- Labor Law - Management
- Litigation - Labor and Employment
Kyle H. Wingfield (2024)
- Litigation and Controversy - Tax
- Tax Law

Tysons, VA

David B. Albo (2024)
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
- Criminal Defense: General Practice
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Clinton H. Brannon (2023)
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
Brian Cashmere (2016)
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Law
- Litigation - Construction
Edmund D. Harllee (1997)
- Banking and Finance Law
Arnie B. Mason (2018)
- Construction Law
- Litigation – Construction
Bradley J. Nowak (2024)
- Energy Regulatory Law
Kevin D. Pomfret (2022)
- Corporate Law
- Privacy and Data Security Law
Robert F. Riley (2020)
- Energy Law

Virginia Beach, VA

David C. Burton (2008)
- Employment Law - Management
- Labor Law - Management
- Litigation - Labor and Employment
Benjamin C. Crumpler (2020)
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Anne E. Domozick (2022)
- Corporate Governance Law
- Corporate Law
John F. Faber, Jr. (2018)
- Real Estate Law
Thomas R. Frantz (1983)
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Tax Law
- Trusts and Estates
Meagan J. Kalantar (2024)
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Venture Capital Law
Monroe Kelly III (2008)
- Banking and Finance Law
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Litigation - Banking and Finance
- Real Estate Law
Samuel M. Kroll (2024)
- Corporate Law
Craig L. Mytelka (2003)
- Copyright Law
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Litigation - Patent
- Media Law
- Trade Secrets Law
- Trademark Law
John M. Paris, Jr. (2011)
- Corporate Law
- Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Tax Law
- Venture Capital Law
Cartwright R. Reilly (2021)
- Real Estate Law
Lawrence R. Siegel (2013)
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law