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For over thirty-five years, Mark has represented homeowners and builders, policy holders and insurance companies, banks and borrowers, business owners and investors, as litigation and consulting counsel. An AV rated attorney, Mark has been listed in Virginia Business Magazine’s "Legal Elite" and also named one of "Virginia’s Super Lawyers". Mark has advised property owners and contractors in contract negotiations and dispute resolutions. Mark is an experienced business and insurance lawyer, carefully and ably guiding corporate clients seeking to create and maintain success. Throughout his career, Mark has exhibited the unique ability to easily digest and manage complex challenges and transactions. From shareholder disputes to complex financing arrangements, Mark has a proven ability to make sense out of complex legal and business matters. A patient counselor and a diligent advocate, Mark is an attorney well suited to shepherd his client through their most daunting legal challenges.

Practice Areas:

• Business Corporate
• Commercial Finance
• Construction
• Creditor's Rights
• Employment
• Litigation

Education:

• Hampden-Sydney College (1970)
• University of Virginia School of Law (1973)

Experience:

• Glenn, Feldmann, Darby & Goodlatte (1973-present)
• Virginia Continuing Legal Education Programs (Lecturer)
• Lorman Educational Services (Lecturer)

Associations:

• Roanoke Bar Association (Director 1976-1978; 1986-1988)
• Virginia State Bar (Special Committee on Bench-Bar Relations, 2006-present)
• American Bar Association
• Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys
• International Association of Defense Counsel

Civic Involvement:

• Roanoke Country Club, Inc. (former President/Governor 1982-1986; Counsel 2001-present)
• Roanoke Civic Center Commission (former Chairman/Member 1993-2001)
• Roanoke Valley Youth Soccer Club (former President/Director 1985-1996)
• Catholic Family and Children’s Services (former Director)
• Roanoke Valley Counsel of Community Service (former Director)
• Roanoke Valley Historical Society (former Director)

Representative Work:

Business/Corporate

• Brizzolara v. Sherwood Memorial Park, Inc., 274 Va. 164, 645 S.E.2d 508 (2007)
• Deane v. Novacare Orthotics & Prosthetics East, Inc., 50 Va. Cir. 418 (1999)

Construction

• Hopgilkinslock, Inc. v. McDevitt & Street Co., 846 F.2d 71 (4th Cir. 1988)
• Blue Cross of Southwestern Virginia v. McDevitt & Street Co., 234 Va. 191, 360 S.E.2d 825 (1987)

Creditor's Rights

• In re First Federal Corp., 42 B.R. 682 (W.D.Va. 1984)
• In re Musgrove, 7 B.R. 892 (W.D. Va. 1981)

Employment

• McDaniel v. Mead Corp., 818 F.2d 861 (4th Cir. 1987)

Authorship:

• Member of a LLC May Not Pursue Individual Claims Against Fellow Members or Managers of the LLC for Breach of Fiduciary Duty
• Recent Legislative Enactments Affect Health Care Providers
• Misrepresentations As to Work Performed by Contrators Only Support Action for Breach of Contract and Not Fraud

Publications & Lectures:

• Construction Law Update, Brown, Edwards & Co., LLP, November 2007
• Fundamentals of Construction Contracts: Understanding the Issues, Lorman Education Services, November 2007
• Automobile Liability Insurance, Virginia Continuing Legal Education Committee, October 2003
• Selected Construction Law Issues - Pay-When-Paid and Dispute Resolution Clauses, Glenn, Feldmann, Darby & Goodlatte Legal Education Seminar, September 2002
• Co-Author, Insurance Law in Virginia, "Chapter 8- Motor Vehicles-Bodily Injury and Property Damage Liability Insurance", Virginia Law Foundation, January 2002