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DAVID
H. PETTIT
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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.
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University of Virginia (B.A. with distinction, 1974)
University of Virginia (J.D. 1977)
Echols Scholar
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Professional
Service &
Affiliations
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Charlottesville-Albemarle Bar Association (President-Elect; 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
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Community Service
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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 of Directors, Secretary,
Treasurer, Chairman of Membership and Finance
Committees 1998-2000)
First Presbyterian Church (Multiple terms on Session
and as Chair of Pastoral & Staff Relations
Committee, 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 of Directors, 2005-present)
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| Awards and Recognition |
Listed in "Legal Elite" Virginia Business Magazine (2004) |
| 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
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