Family Law

• Divorce
• Child Support
• Child Custody and Visitation
  Domestic relations law in Virginia addresses a wide range of issues of importance to individuals and families. While the concept readily calls to mind separation, divorce, and attendant concerns such as child custody, support, and the division of marital assets, our team also assists clients in non-divorce cases as well.
• Adoption
• Paternity
• Spousal Support
  "A well known appellate lawyer, who did not handle family law cases, recommended Juli Porto to represent my client on an appeal by her ex-husband on a spousal support award to my client. My client prevailed on the appeal, and she will be forever grateful, as will I, on the professional and competent manner in which Juli handled the appeal. She quickly isolated the legal issue to be addressed in her well researched brief and well presented oral argument. Juli also developed a good relationship with my client, who I know would have been pleased with Julie's representation regardless of the outcome."
• Annulment

Criminal Law

• Wrongful Death
  In the wake of an injury—from any source—a motor vehicle accident, an unsafe product, or a dangerous condition of land—many victims and their families don't know where to turn for the critical legal advice they'll need to guide them through what can be an intimidating and confusing time. Choices injured persons and their families make in the days immediately following an injury or wrongful death can have a lasting impact on their rights to compensation for damages and injuries. Defendants have insurance companies to protect them—you should have an advocate as well. Our attorneys have assisted injured individuals and their families in a variety of areas.
• Sex Crimes
  Blankingship & Keith Teams with Seven Law Firms to Secure $14 Million Settlement for Child Care Center Victims of Sexual Assault - Blankingship & Keith, PC.

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  We limit the number of cases we take so that we may devote substantial resources, thought, and attention to each of our personal injury cases. Several of our lawyers previously practiced in very large law firms, and we strive to provide extraordinary legal assistance to individuals who could never afford to pay the rates large law firms demand. In effect, we level the playing field by taking the “corporate law firm” approach used by large firms to defend corporate clients and using it to represent our personal injury clients in fighting insurance companies and corporations for civil justice. In today’s business-first political climate, the basic rights of individuals are rapidly losing ground to the prerogatives of big business and the companies that insure them. By making your fight our fight, we partner with our personal injury clients to make justice a reality.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Since 1979, we have represented businesses throughout all of Northern Virginia. Our lawyers have been actively engaged in the formation of business entities, mergers and acquisitions, as well as ongoing representation of a growing number of large and small business clients.
• Business Formation
• Business Disputes
  Blankingship & Keith has 27 partners and 42 lawyers overall handling virtually every aspect of civil practice, including commercial litigation, personal injury, real estate, family law, education law, business law, trusts & estates, and tax.
• Business Transactions
  He had extensive experience in a wide variety of matters, including eminent domain and real estate tax valuation cases, commercial real estate, business transactions and land use matters. Hugo was a skilled trial lawyer and tried a variety of cases throughout his career. He was also an excellent and innovative negotiator who was able to settle scores of apparently intractable disputes to the relief of his clients. Hugo also served a President of the Virginia Bar Association.
• Limited Liability Companies
  U.S. News – Law Firms, Blankingship and Keith assists individuals with planning for all sizes of estates including large, complicated estates involving business interests and other substantial assets. We draft simple and complex wills and a variety of trusts to meet the needs of the client. We advise clients of various techniques which can be employed to reduce tax liabilities, including marital deduction planning, the use of credit shelter trusts, marital trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts and family limited liability companies. Practice group attorneys are also recognized by
• Trade Secrets

Employment Law

• Employment Contract
• Employment Litigation
  Employment claims based on state and federal law, including Title VII, ADA, ADEA, FMLA, USERRA, and state and local human rights acts;
• Non-compete Agreement
• Severance Agreement

Property Law

• Real Estate Transactions
  A team approach often is needed to solve a commercial real estate problem or complete a complex real estate transaction. Our talents are supplemented by our long-standing relationships with title companies, appraisers, surveyors, engineers, real estate brokers, agents, and local and state government officials. We work with our clients and those related to the transaction to do our best to achieve results effectively and efficiently.
• Eminent Domain
  Welcome to the Virginia Eminent Domain Group at Blankingship & Keith, P.C. We are among the most experienced eminent domain lawyers in Virginia, having handled many hundreds of cases over the last three decades.
• Land Use and Zoning
  Our land use and development practice involves rezonings, special use permits, special exceptions, variance requests, and resolution of issues relating to subdivision and site plan approvals. We have a particularly active practice in representing churches and other institutional uses.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Blankingship & Keith personal injury attorneys Peter Everett and Chidi James recently teamed up with seven other law firms to secure a $14,000,000 settlement for nine children who were sexually assaulted by a teacher’s aide at a large regional child care center.
• Medical Malpractice
  In today’s litigious culture, healthcare organizations and professionals can easily find themselves facing claims of malpractice, jeopardizing their reputation and ability to serve their clients. Due to the complexities of medical malpractice claims, clients need counsel who are experienced with developing strategies that address the substantive issues of the primary claim as well as the underlying cause.
• Auto Accidents

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  We also assist clients in estate administration and probate matters by assisting with qualification of executors, filing of inventories and accountings with the Commissioner of Accounts, and occasionally by serving as fiduciary. We are there to serve as a resource to advise our clients who are serving as fiduciaries and to provide as little or as much help as the situation requires.
• Wills
• Trusts
  Blankingship & Keith has 26 partners and 41 lawyers overall handling virtually every aspect of civil practice, including commercial litigation, personal injury, real estate, family law, education law, business, trusts & estates, and tax, from its Fairfax office.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Foreclosure
  Since 1981, we have handled residential and commercial foreclosures throughout Virginia and the District of Columbia. We also handle Maryland foreclosures with local trustees we have used for over 20 years.
• Tax Law
  Do not file any real estate tax appeals. Any low value you put on the property, including in a real estate tax appeal, may be used against you at trial. Also, be careful if you place a value on the property in any other document like a financial statement.