Mr. Sleeth focuses his practice on civil litigation and commercial real estate.
Mr. Sleeth has represented a wide variety of clients in litigation matters in state and federal court throughout Virginia. His litigation work encompasses a range of issues, including business and contract disputes, premises liability, products liability, personal injury matters, motor vehicle torts, and professional liability claims.
Mr. Sleeth has also represented clients in an array of real estate disputes, including those involving adverse possession, trespass, title disputes, partition claims, and a wide variety of community association disputes. He also concentrates a portion of his litigation practice on trust and estate litigation, focusing on will contests, fiduciary challenges, and guardianship proceedings.
Mr. Sleeth's real estate practice is focused primarily in the areas of community associations (both developer and association representation), real estate transactions, and land use and zoning. Mr. Sleeth has represented local and large-scale national developers in the creation and establishment of complex master-planned residential, mixed-use, commercial, and "New Urbanism" communities throughout Virginia. He also serves as counsel to a wide variety of homeowners and condominium associations, representing associations ranging in size from large-scale resort-centered communities with significant facilities, to smaller neighborhood associations.
His transactional practice focuses on commercial real estate acquisitions, sales, leasing, and financing. Mr. Sleeth has represented both buyers and sellers in an array of multi-million dollar sales and acquisitions of commercial properties.
Mr. Sleeth has written and published extensively in the fields of litigation, real estate, and community association law, and his articles have been featured in some of the leading trade industry journals and legal publications (including, for example, The Fee Simple, Currents, Docket Call, and Consensus). He also serves as the editor of the Virginia Community Association Law Blog, which can be accessed at: www.vacommunityassociationlaw.com
Mr. Sleeth attended law school at William & Mary, where he was one of three students in his graduating class selected to serve on both the William & Mary Law Review and the National Moot Court Team. As a member of the National Moot Court Team, Mr. Sleeth represented William & Mary at the National Moot Court Competition, the top moot court competition in the nation. Mr. Sleeth was also one of three students in the nation selected to serve as Executive Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Symposium Edition.