Alan D. Albert

About Alan D. Albert

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

Mr. Albert is a frequent lecturer and commentator on civil and criminal procedure, evidence, environmental law and land use, election and campaign finance law, and public finance. His legal, government, and public policy writings 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 United States and the United Kingdom. He is the co-author of several books on environmental law, land use, and public finance, including the Virginia Environmental Law Handbook.

Mr. Albert has served as a top policy and legal adviser to a Virginia governor, as the executive director of a state political party, as general counsel to numerous campaigns, and as chairman and a longtime member of Virginia's Board of Conservation and Recreation, which oversees Virginia's award-winning state park system and conservation programs across the Commonwealth. He has also served on the boards of several arts and cultural organizations, including the Virginia Opera, the Virginia Symphony, Virginians for the Arts, and CREATOrS, a recently co-founded nonprofit dedicated to identifying and bringing to artistic realization compelling stories from contemporary political and social life.