Member Firms
Sands Anderson PC
Virginia, United States
Website: www.sandsanderson.com
Email:
lbyrd@sandsanderson.com; bpitney@sandsanderson.com
Tel: (804) 648-1636
Fax: (804) 783-7291
Sands Anderson is a midsize law firm that supports the complete legal needs of its clients. As a dependable legal partner, we help you understand and anticipate what comes next so you can make informed decisions and move forward with complete confidence.
Entrust us with day-to-day legal issues or your next big project, knowing you will receive strategic guidance, personalized attention, and steadfast support today and every day.
Our Clients
We work with clients throughout the Mid-Atlantic region that have diverse legal objectives and desire a dependable legal partner. Our clientele typically includes:
- Businesses
- Individuals
- Government Entities
- Healthcare Organizations
- Insurance Companies
No matter your legal needs and goals, we will dedicate our full efforts to helping you create the best possible outcomes.
Our Philosophy
We believe that our best work is the result of deep collaboration with our clients. To help those we serve look forward, stay on track, and ultimately come out ahead, we know we must be more than a legal resource. By focusing on your goals, proactively addressing your needs, and responding promptly to your concerns, we strive to demonstrate daily that we care just as much for the clients we support as the outcomes we create.
When unforeseen legal challenges arise, that is when we do our best work. Not only do our lawyers provide experienced and resourceful legal counsel in difficult circumstances, but we recognize these challenges often create unique opportunities to truly delight our clients.
Our Legacy
Sands Anderson’s roots began in Richmond, Virginia, in 1842, when the firm was founded. Since then, we’ve become Richmond’s longest continually operating business, and we’ve enhanced our reach across the region.
Today, our firm employes more than 120 people with offices in Christiansburg, Fredericksburg, Richmond, Virginia Beach, and Williamsburg, Virginia, and in Durham, North Carolina. Large enough to serve virtually any client need, we remain small enough to provide the personal attention our clients have come to expect.
We believe that our longevity and advancement are a testament to our proactive culture. Through evolving centuries, industries, and cities, we’ve learned to be nimble and adapt to changing times while remaining true to our roots and purpose. From our founding and through nearly two centuries of growth, we continue to provide lasting value to the clients we serve and the people we hire.
Our Practice Areas
At Sands Anderson, we offer a comprehensive range of transactional and litigation legal services to businesses, governmental entities, healthcare providers, and insurance companies throughout the Mid-Atlantic region who desire a thorough, steadfast ally.
- Appellate
- Aviation
- Business Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights
- Business & Corporate Transactions
- Collective Bargaining for Local Governments
- Commercial Collections
- Commercial Real Estate
- Commercial Transportation
- Community Associations
- Construction
- Cybersecurity & Technology
- Delinquent Real Estate Tax Collection
- Economic Development
- Eminent Domain
- Government
- Health Law
- Healthcare License Defense
- Higher Education
- Insurance
- Labor & Employment
- Land Use & Zoning
- Law Enforcement & Public Safety
- Litigation
- Mass Tort & Mass Claim Litigation
- Municipal Finance & Bonds
- Non-Profit & Tax Exempt
- Privately Held & Small Business
- Product Liability
- Professional Liability Defense
- School & Education
- Tax
- Tax Assessment Defense
- Trusts & Estates
- Vaccine Injury
- White Collar Defense & Investigations
Our Highlighted Practices
At Sands Anderson, we are known for our commonsense approach to business transactions and valued for responsive legal counsel that makes plain business sense.
Our corporate transactional lawyers advise on all areas of business and corporate law, from entity formation, to negotiating, documenting, and closing business contracts, agreements, and other partnerships. Our clients rely on us to help them grow and expand their businesses through mergers, acquisitions, strategic structuring, joint ventures, capital raising, buyouts, buy-ins, recapitalizations, business break-ups, settlements, and divestitures.
We provide government and administrative law solutions to support the local governing bodies in communities across Virginia and North Carolina. Counties, cities, towns, school boards, and other municipal agencies rely on Sands Anderson’s local government attorneys to help them understand and navigate the legal issues and mandates impacting their daily operations. With the largest team of attorneys in private practice dedicated to supporting local government in Virginia, we will help you understand what is legally required in each situation and aim to remove potential hindrances, mitigate risk, and maximize success with those you serve.
Our deep bench of municipal attorneys and in-depth knowledge of the strategic legal needs of our government clients is the result of years of service in similar roles, whether in-house as city or county attorney, or as outside counsel for counties, cities, towns, municipalities, or school boards. As your legal ally, our government and administrative law team will deliver the daily, short-term, and long-term advice and government litigation experience you require to meet your legal responsibilities while providing important resources to your citizens.
From file to trial and on appeal, Sands Anderson’s litigation attorneys focus on positioning you to come out on top. We guide you through your most sensitive business matters, always focused on reducing the risk of disputes and ensuring that your interests are protected.
Knowing each business dispute is unique, we formulate strategies that leverage your strengths and increase your potential to win. Working alongside our clients, we evaluate all options, including quickly settling smaller disputes before litigation ensues, to gauge what action will leave you most unencumbered to run your business and pursue your long- and short-term goals.
When litigation is inevitable, our business litigation team is fluent in all civil litigation protocols, including the legal and regulatory risks of defending or filing a claim. We have prosecuted and defended bet-the-company claims and won… many times over in myriad state, federal, and appellate courts. With each business dispute, we conserve your time, resources, and legal spend to ensure you look forward, stay on track, and come out ahead.
