Hi, I'm John.
I started this firm because I kept watching families pay the price for plans that were never really plans — just paperwork.
For most of my early career I worked the other side of that paperwork: probate cases that should have been simple, families fighting over things their parents never meant to leave ambiguous, trustees lost in a job no one explained to them. The same patterns kept showing up. The plan was bought, not designed. The lawyer disappeared after the signing. Nobody had updated anything in fifteen years.
So I built something different. A firm where the first conversation is about your family, not your documents. Where the fee is a number you see before you say yes. Where I call you every three years — because the plan I draft for the family you have today won't fit the family you'll have in 2031.
I live in Northern Virginia with my own family. I serve clients across the Commonwealth — most of them within an hour of the office, but a fair few by video from further out. I'm a member of the Virginia State Bar, a Personal Family Lawyer®, and a person who actually wants to take your call.