Areas of Experience

Personal injury, product liability, medical malpractice, family law, contracts, employment, labor, corporate disputes, business dissolution, professional liability, defamation, intellectual property, copyright/trademark, patents, securities, governmental issues, condemnation, real estate.

Professional Experience

• Certified Mediator, Supreme Court of Virginia.

• Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 1998-2017.

• Judge, 19th Judicial Circuit Court of Virginia (Fairfax), 1992-1998.

• Former Partner, Cohen, Dunn & Sinclair, Alexandria.

Affiliations

• Fellow, Virginia Law Foundation.

• Former Vice President, Federal Judges Association.

• Former Chairman, Virginia Judicial Conference Judicial Education Committee.

• Former Member, Virginia Circuit Court Judges Benchbook Committee.

• Former Member, Board of Directors, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.

• Past President, George Mason American Inn of Court.

• Past President, Northern Virginia Black Attorneys Association.

• Member, Alexandria Bar Association. Former Chairman of the Judicial Selection Committee.

• CLEO Edge Award Honoree, 2018.

• Featured in “Coming Down From the Bench”, Washington Lawyer, November/December 2021.

Education

• American University, Washington College of Law, J. D.

• American University, B.A.