530 East Main Street P.O. Box 2057 Charlottesville, VA
22902
DAVID H. PETTIT David Pettit has practiced with the firm since 1978 in a broad
range of business-related areas. While he concentrates primarily
in the areas of business transactions and resolution of business
disputes, he advises businesses and business owners on a variety
of matters, including negotiating and drafting contracts,
commercial financing transactions, securities issuance and
litigation, shareholder conflict, employment law matters and
commercial real estate transactions. He has substantial
experience advising trade associations and certification
organizations.
Mr. Pettit has represented purchasers and sellers
of businesses in Virginia and in numerous other states,
plaintiffs and defendants in securities litigation, and business
principals in the negotiated and litigated restructuring or
severance of business relationships. [Send
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Education
University of Virginia (B.A. with
distinction, 1974)
University of Virginia (J.D. 1977)
Echols Scholar
Professional Service
& Affiliations
Charlottesville-Albemarle Bar
Association (Former President; Prior service includes
Executive Committee, Chair of Business Law Committee;
Representative to Citizen Committee to determine
location and design of new local court facilities)
Virginia Bar Association
American Bar Association (Business Law Section)
Virginia State Bar (Member, Business Law Section)
Instructor, local and statewide continuing legal
education seminars concerning business acquisition
Community Service
Virginia Discovery Museum (President
and Board Member during fundraising and establishment of
permanent facility 1984-1988)
Charlottesville Free Clinic (Pro bono legal advisor
since 1996)
Building Goodness Foundation (Pro bono counsel in
establishment and operation of charity that supports
construction missions in Haiti and Nicaragua; traveled
to Haiti in 2000 to participate in work project)
American Red Cross, Charlottesville-Albemarle Chapter
(Pro bono legal advisor 1992-1998)
Farmington Country Club (Board Member; Secretary/Treasurer; Chair Membership and Finance Committees
1998-2000; Chair of Proxy Committee 2010-present)
First Presbyterian Church (Multiple terms on Session and
have Chaired Pastoral & Staff Relations Committee,
Personnel Committee, and the Mission Study Task Force; Principal drafter of Articles of Endowment, Advisor to
Endowment Committee, Teacher in Adult Sunday School)
International Rescue Committee (Teacher of citizenship
classes to applicants for naturalization)
Little League baseball coach (9 years)
Bridge Ministry (Post conviction rehabilitation program,
Board Member 2005-2009)
Awards &
Recognition
Listed in "Legal Elite" Virginia
Business Magazine
Named to Virginia "Super Lawyers" in Business Law; 2009,
2010, 2011
Admitted
Virginia - 1977
U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia - 1977
U.S. Tax Court - 1987
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia - 1990
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit - 1991
