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Deborah M. Casey

Vandeventer Black LLP
  • Recognized Since:
    2017
  • Recognized in:
    Community Association Law
  • Website:
    http://www.vanblacklaw.com
  • Location:
    101 West Main Street
    500 World Trade Center
    Norfolk, VA 23510

Debbie is a Partner, Executive Board Member and Chair of Vandeventer Black’s Community Associations team.  She is rated AV® Preeminent?? by Martindale-Hubbell®, the highest rating for legal ability and ethical standards. In addition to her many unprecedented accomplishments, she was the first and still is, one of only a small number of lawyers in Southeastern Virginia admitted as a Fellow to CAI National’s prestigious College of Community Association Lawyers (“CCAL”).

For almost three decades, Debbie has concentrated her practice in representing Virginia’s common interest communities providing exceptional legal counseling tailored to their needs. Her clients include a variety of condominium and property owners’ associations, as well as mixed use and planned communities.  Her strategic guidance spans the broad spectrum of legal issues facing community associations, from transition to aging properties; drafting, amending and interpreting documents to enforcement of covenants and restrictions, litigation and mediation; defective construction to major repair projects; environmental and land use; finance and fund management to assessment collection, liens, foreclosures, and bankruptcy; insurance to management; fair housing, discrimination, regulatory and other compliance; operations and governance; and as general and corporate counsel, encompassing forward thinking, collaboration, and positive impact.

By staying current in the law, active in CAI and the larger community, Debbie understands the unique and multifaceted challenges presented daily, and in more unusual and complex circumstances, and delivers superior results.  She leads the community association law practice with integrity, professionalism, and efficiency, being proactive, accessible, and responsive. 

Debbie also has broad experience representing creditors and commercial property owners in leasing, contracts, bankruptcy, collections and dispute resolution.   Her litigation experience has yielded a great understanding of contracts that enables her to advance and protect the interests of business and property owners.  This experience has sharpened her skills to draft contracts and resolve disputes that recognize business objectives, meet goals, maximize opportunity and minimize risk. 

 

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Debbie is a Partner, Executive Board Member and Chair of Vandeventer Black’s Community Associations team.  She is rated AV® Preeminent?? by Martindale-Hubbell®, the highest rating for legal ability and ethical standards. In addition to her many unprecedented accomplishments, she was the first and still is, one of only a small number of lawyers in Southeastern Virginia admitted as a Fellow to CAI National’s prestigious College of Community Association Lawyers (“CCAL”).

For almost three decades, Debbie has concentrated her practice in representing Virginia’s common interest communities providing exceptional legal counseling tailored to their needs. Her clients include a variety of condominium and property owners’ associations, as well as mixed use and planned communities.  Her strategic guidance spans the broad spectrum of legal issues facing community associations, from transition to aging properties; drafting, amending and interpreting documents to enforcement of covenants and restrictions, litigation and mediation; defective construction to major repair projects; environmental and land use; finance and fund management to assessment collection, liens, foreclosures, and bankruptcy; insurance to management; fair housing, discrimination, regulatory and other compliance; operations and governance; and as general and corporate counsel, encompassing forward thinking, collaboration, and positive impact.

By staying current in the law, active in CAI and the larger community, Debbie understands the unique and multifaceted challenges presented daily, and in more unusual and complex circumstances, and delivers superior results.  She leads the community association law practice with integrity, professionalism, and efficiency, being proactive, accessible, and responsive. 

Debbie also has broad experience representing creditors and commercial property owners in leasing, contracts, bankruptcy, collections and dispute resolution.   Her litigation experience has yielded a great understanding of contracts that enables her to advance and protect the interests of business and property owners.  This experience has sharpened her skills to draft contracts and resolve disputes that recognize business objectives, meet goals, maximize opportunity and minimize risk. 

 

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Education:

  • Emory University, B.A.

Affiliations:

  • Vandeventer Black LLP - Executive Board Member
  • Community Associations Institute - Virginia Legislative Action Committee (2004-14), Chair (2008-11)
  • Community Associations Institute, Southeastern Virginia Chapter - Past President
  • United Jewish Federation of Tidewater Professional Society - Women’s Cabinet (2013-present); Executive Board Member

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for work in:

  • Community Association Law
 

Awards:

  • Top 40 Under 40, 2001
  • SEVA-CAI Distinguished Service Award
  • SEVA-CAI Hall of Fame Award
  • Women In Business Achievement Award, 2005
  • Influential Women of Virginia Award, Class of 2010
  • Thompson Reuters, “Virginia Super Lawyers”, (2010 - Present)
  • Virginia Legal Elite, 2013 - Present
  • College of Community Association Lawyers, Fellow
  • CoVaBiz Magazine, “Top Lawyers of Coastal Virginia” (2016-17)
  • Virginia Living Magazine, "Women In The Law 2017"
  • AV® Preeminent?? by Martindale-Hubbell® Law Directory
 

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Vandeventer Black LLP
http://www.vanblacklaw.com
 
Headquarters
101 West Main Street
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Norfolk, VA 23510
(757) 446.8600
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