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Jen West serves on Spotts Fain's executive committee and is president of the firm. She focuses her practice on creditors' rights, commercial litigation, insolvency, workouts and foreclosure. She primarily represents banks and other lending institutions, with a particular focus on community banks. In 2019, Jen was appointed to the Panel of Chapter 7 Trustees for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division. In this role, she is responsible for the administration of Chapter 7 cases to wh...

Meade Spotts's practice emphasizes real estate and environmental issues, legislative representation and lobbying, and general corporate and business law. He represents his clients' interests before the Virginia General Assembly, local and state boards, planning commissions, and agencies. He has participated in public and private trade missions to China and represents companies with interests throughout North America. His off-duty time likewise covers much of the state. Meade lives on the Jame...

Brian Chase serves on Spotts Fain's executive committee and is treasurer of the firm. He practices in the Business section on the Real Estate, Financial Services, and Corporate teams. Brian's practice focuses on representing sellers, buyers, developers, investors and lenders with respect to commercial real estate, corporate, and lending transactions, including the acquisition, financing, development, leasing, management, and disposition of multifamily, office, retail, industrial, and mixed us...

Ted Brenner is a Partner in the Litigation Practice Group with an emphasis on insurance matters. Over his 38 year career, Ted has served as trial and appellate counsel in hundreds of civil matters in state and federal courts representing individuals and business entities. He has litigated almost every type of case ranging from a single claim arising from a single event, to many thousands of claims of injury and damage worldwide resulting from the use of allegedly dangerous products. His curre...

Edward is an accomplished and indefatigable litigator who has tried and won an impressive variety of cases in state and federal courts including personal injury, premises liability and insurance coverage matters. An extremely talented trial attorney, he has mastered the courtroom skills necessary to obtain substantial verdicts for his clients. Edward helped spearhead the firm's expansion to Northern Virginia and has been the managing partner there since the Fredericksburg office opened in 199...

John Erbach represents a wide variety of business entities and individuals in complex business and commercial litigation, including intellectual property litigation, employment disputes, defense of consumer protection claims, and other complex commercial litigation. As an additional part of his practice, John regularly serves as outside general counsel to small and medium-sized businesses, counseling on employment compliance matters, employment policies, employee handbooks, dispute resolution...

Derrick Walker is an accomplished and experienced trial attorney in the Richmond, Virginia office of Allen & Allen. He has a solid track record in a wide array of personal injury matters including multi-million dollar awards in cases involving wrongful death, tractor trailer accidents, traumatic brain injury, and medical malpractice. Since 2000, Derrick has represented clients in a diverse range of federal and state court cases consistently winning favorable outcomes for his clients at th...

As a founding member of the firm's Medical Malpractice Section, Jason has been instrumental in its success both in and out of the courtroom. Jason's keen interest in complex medical issues and his natural instincts as a trial lawyer have enabled him to achieve numerous record-setting jury verdicts and equally noteworthy settlements on behalf of his clients. However, Jason's legal accomplishments are not limited to medical malpractice cases. His practice also includes serious and complex injur...

Jeff Stedman joined Cantor Grana Buckner Bucci (previously Cantor Stoneburner Ford Grana Buckner) in June 2013 and became a full-time associate with the firm in June of 2014. And on January 1st of this year, a momentous milestone marked Jeff’s journey: his ascension to full partner. His practice focuses on a wide range of personal injury actions, including tractor-trailer accidents , automobile collisions , professional negligence, products liability, and other sources of catastrophic i...

John C. Shea is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs and Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs. John C., who practices law in Richmond, Virginia, has been recognized since 2005. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which John C. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.