Alan D. Albert

Alan Albert is a renowned trial lawyer who has represented clients ranging from Muhammad Ali to multinational organizations in a wide range of commercial disputes, white-collar criminal investigations and prosecutions, intellectual property lawsuits, and other governmental and regulatory problems.

Mr. Albert has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for the past 20 years, and he is one of only a few lawyers in the country to be listed in six different categories, including business litigation, white-collar criminal defense, intellectual property litigation, patent and trademark litigation, trademark law, and governmental relations. In the Hampton Roads region, Best Lawyers recognized him Patent Litigator of the Year in 2013 and Intellectual Property Litigator of the Year in 2014. He's also been named to numerous other lists of top lawyers, including Super Lawyers and Virginia Business magazine's annual "Virginia Legal Elite."

Mr. Albert speaks frequently on legal and governmental themes such as civil and criminal procedure, evidence, environmental and land use law, election and campaign finance law, and public finance. His articles on law, government, and public policy have appeared in journals such as the Harvard Law Review, the Harvard International Law Journal, and the Harvard Political Review, as well as newspapers and news magazines in the US and the UK. He co-authored the Virginia Environmental Law Handbook, as well as other volumes on environmental law, land use, and public finance.

Mr. Albert's public and civic experience includes serving as a top policy and legal adviser to a Virginia governor, executive director of a state political party, general counsel to numerous campaigns, and chairman and longtime member of Virginia's Board of Conservation and Recreation, which oversees the state's award-winning state park system and conservation programs. For more than two decades, he has served on the boards of the Virginia Opera, the Virginia Symphony, Virginians for the Arts, and CREATOrS, a nonprofit he recently co-founded with the goal of identifying and bringing to artistic realization compelling stories from contemporary political and social life.

Mr. Albert can be found in the outdoors (especially on a hike, or in a kayak or sailboat), in the middle of musical endeavors ranging from classical to traditional music, or engrossed in one of several ongoing literary projects when he is not in the courtroom or the boardroom. He is a graduate of Harvard College, Oxford University (where he was a George C. Marshall Scholar), and Harvard Law School, where he was Developments Editor of the Harvard Law Review and a Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Professor Michael Sandel. He is a native of Christiansburg, in the mountains of southwest Virginia, where his family were early settlers.

Education
Harvard University Law School , J.D. cum laude, graduated 1985
Harvard University, AB, graduated 1979
Harvard University , A.B. magna cum laude, graduated 1979

Award List

Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers for:

• Litigation - Intellectual Property, Norfolk (2014)
• Litigation - Patent, Norfolk (2013)

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for work in:

• Commercial Litigation
• Criminal Defense: White-Collar
• Government Relations Practice
• Litigation - Banking and Finance
• Litigation - Environmental
• Litigation - Intellectual Property
• Litigation - Patent
• Litigation - Trusts and Estates
• Trademark Law

Awards:

• Best Lawyers in America -- Patent Litigation Lawyer of the Year (Norfolk, VA) (2013)
• Virginia Legal Elite
• Super Lawyers
• Virginia Legal Elite 2013 featured practitioner in criminal law
• President's Award, Treasurers Association of Virginia
• Distinguished Service Award, Virginians for the Arts
• Troutman Sanders Pro Bono Service Award
• Best Lawyers in America -- Intellectual Property Litigator of the Year (Norfolk, VA) (2014)

Office: O'Hagan Meyer
Recognized Since: 2001
Website: https://ohaganmeyer.com/
Phone: (804) 403.7100
Email: aalbert@ohaganmeyer.com
Location: 411 East Frankin Street, Suite 500 Richmond, VA 23219