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Alan D. Albert

999 Waterside Drive
Suite 2100
Norfolk, Virginia 23510
Phone:  757.441.8914
Fax:  757.624.3773
Riverfront Plaza, East Tower
951 East Byrd Street, Eighth Floor
Richmond, Virginia 23219

Biography

Alan Albert is a nationally-honored trial lawyer who has represented clients ranging from Muhammad Ali and multinational corporations to professionals and small entrepreneurs in business disputes, criminal prosecutions and investigations, regulatory enforcement proceedings and legislative endeavors.

Alan is entering his second decade of recognition in The Best Lawyers in America as one of the country’s top business litigators, has been named on multiple occasions to the Virginia Business  “Legal Elite” in the fields of both civil litigation and legislative and administrative law, is cited in Who’s Who in American Law, is listed by Law and Politics as a Virginia Super Lawyer in business litigation, and holds Martindale-Hubbell’s highest rating for legal ability and integrity.

Years of litigation experience have made Alan a familiar face in trial and appellate courts throughout Virginia, as well as before federal, state and local governmental bodies and agencies. He lectures and has written extensively in fields including civil procedure, criminal procedure, evidence, environmental regulation and land use. He is Chairman of Virginia’s Board of Conservation and Recreation, which oversees Virginia’s park system and conservation programs, and is a former top legal and policy adviser to the Governor of Virginia. He represents numerous associations and industry groups before the Virginia General Assembly and other governmental bodies.

Alan’s recent litigation victories include the successful defense and appeal of a multimillion-dollar Lanham Act claim against a government contractor, obtaining invalidation of patent protection on one of the world’s top-selling antibiotics, obtaining summary judgment of noninfringement in a patent case challenging leading broadband technologies, and securing the nation’s largest award of attorneys’ fees against the United States in a criminal case following dismissal of the government’s entire 31-count criminal case against the officers of a Virginia bank.

Legal Experience

  • LeClairRyan, Norfolk & Richmond, Virginia, 2004 – present
  • Troutman Sanders LLP (formerly Mays & Valentine LLP), Norfolk & Richmond, Virginia, 1989 – 2004
  • Office of the Governor, Commonwealth of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, 1986 – 1989

Distinctions

  • Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 edition in the fields of Commercial Litigation, Criminal Defense: White-Collar, Government Relations Practice, Litigation - Intellectual Property
  • Virginia Business magazine's 2011 "Legal Elite", Criminal Law 

Education

  • J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1985
  • M. Phil., Politics, Oxford University, 1981
  • A.B., Government & Economics, magna cum laude, Harvard College, 1979

Court Admissions

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit