Criminal Law

• Wrongful Death

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Disputes
• Business Transactions
  Lorenzo Carrazana assists in various business and corporate matters, including entity formation, general counsel, and tax issues. Lorenzo has a broad repertoire that also includes estate planning, various real estate and business transactions, and conservation easements. Raised in central Virginia, Lorenzo lives in Harrisonburg with his wife and son, and enjoys the outdoors and good food with friends and family.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Joel is a partner at BotkinRose PLC and a member of its Virginia Education Law Group℠. Joel’s education law experience includes representing multiple Virginia school boards, institutions of higher education, and serving as defense counsel for Virginia insurance risk pools. As a civil litigator, Joel has successfully defended the constitutional prerogatives of school boards in regard to many aspects of public education, including Title IX, student discipline, employment, and property interests. Joel regularly advises school boards, superintendents, and division leaders on matters involving constitutional considerations, contracts, school records (FOIA, FERPA, etc.), policy formation, and other matters that arise in the day-to-day business of public education. Outside of education law, Joel represents Virginia municipalities and maintains an active litigation practice that varies from real estate litigation, commercial litigation, and administrative law matters. Joel also represents a diverse array of clients in a general counsel capacity including local governments, homeowners associations, and local businesses. Outside of work, Joel is active in his neighborhood and community and otherwise enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, visiting his alma mater, Bridgewater College, or attending East Rockingham High School football games, where he formerly served as an assistant football coach.
• Real Estate Transactions
  Dusty advises businesses and individuals on a variety of matters, including business entity choice, sale and purchase transactions, and succession planning; residential, commercial and farm real estate purchase and sale transactions and land division; contracts and commercial law; wills, trusts, estate planning, probate and estate administration; elder law, long term care planning, Medicaid eligibility and special needs trusts; tax matters and tax-exempt organizations.
• Easement

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Kevin Rose’s practice is diverse, encompassing general civil litigation, environmental, construction, contract disputes, land disputes, and personal injury. Typical clients represented by Mr. Rose include individuals and businesses that have contract and other civil disputes, or that are trying to avoid such disputes with proactive contracting and legal advice. Mr. Rose often handles complex legal matters that use his background in both engineering and law.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Mark Botkin serves as general counsel to many closely held businesses, often from their inception. This includes advising on choice of entity and structure as well as providing advice on federal and state taxation issues. Mr. Botkin has substantial experience in estate planning and pension and employee benefits. Having been raised on a farm in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, Mr. Botkin enjoys helping farm families preserve their farmland for future generations through the use of such techniques as conservation easements.
• Wills
  Matthew W. Light provides practical and knowledgeable advice to individuals, businesses, and localities on a wide variety of legal topics.  Both a versatile general counsel and a skilled technician, Mr. Light is a valued counselor who assists clients with corporate and general business matters, contracts, real estate, succession planning, and a broad assortment of financing, purchase, and sale transactions.  Mr. Light offers estate planning services that vary from simple wills to complicated trusts with sophisticated tax planning.  He often guides families through the estate administration process.  Mr. Light also enjoys assisting local governments with both general legal needs and the specific needs of municipal financings.  He serves as Town Attorney for the town of Broadway.  He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law, where he teaches the course on wills and trusts. In 2018, the Rockingham County Circuit Court appointed Mr. Light to be a Commissioner in Chancery.
• Trusts
  Daniel’s broad civil and commercial litigation experience at both the trial and appellate levels includes handling a variety of dispute and litigation matters in areas such as contracts, commercial, construction, real estate, wills, trusts and estates, insurance coverage, constitutional law, homeowner and condominium associations, and other areas.  His experience also involves representing individuals and families in serious personal injury and wrongful death matters where another party is at fault.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Tax Law