Intellectual Property & Business Law Firm in Washington, D.C., Virginia, & Florida

Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver, PLLC

199 Liberty Street, SW
Leesburg, Virginia 20175
USA

(703) 777-7319 or (800) 747-9354

(703) 777-3656

www.dglegal.com

Contact Mr. Thomas M. Dunlap

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Law Firm Overview

Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver, PLLC is an intellectual property and business law firm. We offer an alternative to the high fees of large law firms. Providing the top-quality legal representation at reasonable prices without the excessive "triple review" billing that often comes with business and IP firm, we are a boutique firm that has tailored our service to meet our clients’ wide variety of needs. We offer litigation and transactional business services in government contracts, patent, copyright, trademark, commercial, antitrust, employment, corporate and trade secret matters around the globe, representing both U.S. and foreign clients. Our clients benefit from our competitive fee schedules while receiving the personalized attention that larger firms often lack.

DGW's attorneys have years of experience at lobbying firms and large law firms such as Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, Hunton & Williams, and Hill Ward & Henderson. Our attorneys made the deliberate choice to leave these “mega-firms” to focus on and enhance our specialty boutique practice, where we have an increased ability to serve each client on a personal basis while providing legal services of the highest caliber. At Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver, PLLC, our diverse knowledge base and practice experience allow us to serve the changing goals of our clients. We speak Spanish, French, Pashtun and Dari and offer Mandarin language services.

Our firm was founded by Tom Dunlap and Dan Grubb, both U.S. Army Cavalry officers who had worked together as partners at a small commercial litigation firm in Virginia. Jeffrey Weaver, a law school classmate of both Mr. Dunlap and Mr. Grubb, was invited to join the firm in 2004, bringing his MBA and years of corporate law experience from the 100-plus attorney firm he left behind. Today, with multiple offices and a number of affiliated attorneys and clients around the world, Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver, PLLC maintains an aggressive, strong and focused team of intellectual property and business lawyers who are available to meet the wide range of our clients’ needs, on their schedules.

Year this Office was Established: 1999

Languages: French, Spanish, Mandarin, English

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Career College Represention

Practice Areas Description

Our practice includes:

- Intellectual Property

We help our clients obtain and register the patents, trademarks, copyrights and licenses that protect their products, services and brand identities. We manage intellectual property portfolios and provide deep discount trademark monitoring services to our clients so they can protect their brand and keep the value of the particular mark. We offer well-qualified legal counsel on matters of trade secrets and business intelligence to help them get ahead in the market. We also provide representation in infringement disputes that involve cease and desist letters, declaratory judgment actions and Markman hearings. We can also help you respond to an office action for a trademark that you have filed yourself, and assist with any other follow up action that might be necessary in the trademark application process.

- Corporate and Finance

We partner with individuals and the businesses they run to help service all of their corporate and transactional legal needs on a local, national and international scale. Knowing that each business and each situation is different, we tailor our approach to your company's unique needs. Our status as a boutique law firm allows us to partner with and service our clients in this manner. We choose transactions and business matters selectively and provide our clients with a level of personal service not often found at larger law firms. We enjoy servicing the corporate needs of businesses of all sizes and in all industries-from start-up companies just forming a business plan to larger, established businesses undergoing growing pains. We regularly act as an outside counsel for corporate clients, working with their in-house counsel to address all of their legal needs. The firm is a leader among area law firms and specializes in start-ups, contracts, licensing, employment agreements, government contracts, mergers & acquisitions, franchising, and private securities.

- Litigation

Our firm offers its clients the many benefits of a highly focused, small-sized business litigation firm, but with all of the important advantages of top national law firm experience. The result for our clients is intense, sophisticated, high-quality legal representation, provided in a cost-effective manner. While Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver focuses its practice on business disputes and intellectual property matters, the firm represents clients in all facets of business litigation and complex commercial matters, in cases involving breach of contract, partnership issues, securities, probate, employment, corporate control, copyrights and trademarks, and franchise and dealer termination matters. Our lawyers have extensive trial and appellate experience across a broad spectrum of corporate litigation disputes, for both plaintiffs and defendants, and have successfully represented individuals, small businesses, and large corporations.

- Real Estate

We maintain a dynamic real estate practice, representing clients involved in commercial and residential transactions, zoning matters and litigation. DGW’s real estate attorneys stay finely tuned into the real estate market as it evolves and matures. Our attorneys have extraordinary experience representing clients engaged in every facet of buying, selling, developing, operating, leasing, capitalizing and financing real estate for operators, investors and consumers. Our real estate litigation attorneys serve clients who are facing threatened or actual litigation concerning real estate or zoning matters, or who need to enforce their rights in a real estate dispute. DGW lawyers are experienced in counseling clients with real estate disputes and, if necessary, taking the cases to trial (or other adversarial process) in jurisdictions across the country. Clients benefit from our lawyers’ familiarity with and experience in addressing terminology, deal structures and other issues unique to the real estate industry.

- Aviation Law

Tom Dunlap serves as a panel attorney for AOPA (the only one located in the immediate Dulles Airport area). He is a licensed instrument pilot and flies a Cirrus SR-22 from KJYO, where he serves as an Airport Commissioner. The firm’s aviation litigation practice includes air crash, aviation tort and aviation products liability defense and aviation-related commercial trial work. Additionally, Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver represents pilots and aviation businesses in disputes, enforcement and civil penalty litigation with the Federal Aviation Administration before the NTSB, particularly with respect to violations of the National Capitol Area TFR, Camp David TFR and the Washington DC SFRA (Special Flight Rules Area, formerly ADIZ). Our aviation transactional practice includes formation of aviation businesses and preparing and negotiating aircraft and aviation facility leases, aircraft purchases, sales and financing, and aircraft operating agreements. Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver also assists aviation businesses with minimizing the risks of potential future litigation.

- Bankruptcy

Our bankruptcy practice is as old as the firm itself. Thomas Dunlap and Daniel Grubb were practicing bankruptcy law before they started the firm. We combine our experience in bankruptcy with our other areas of expertise in corporate law and asset protection to provide competent, comprehensive representation to our clients. Representation you can rely upon. Advice you can trust as informed, accurate and tailored to your individual needs. If bankruptcy is not the best solution to your problems, we will tell you that, even if it means losing your business.

- Career College Representation

We can help a wide variety of schools obtain a license to operate in almost any state in the country where licensure is required, including: Flight Schools; Truck Driving Schools; Cooking Schools; Computer and Technology Schools; Modeling and Acting Schools; Massage Therapy Schools; Cosmetology Schools; and Auto Repair Schools and many more. We often work with local counsel in states where our firm's attorneys are not licensed to practice. If you are considering opening a private secondary school, a vocational/career school, or even an avocational school, we can help.

- Estate Planning

Our law firm helps individuals and companies grow and protect their assets. For our lawyers, effective estate planning is one more tool to help our clients succeed. Our attorneys meet with clients to help them create asset protection plans that really work for individuals and businesses in the form of wills, living trusts, powers of attorney, living wills, and advance medical directives. Our firm is a small, boutique law firm that chooses cases selectively so that our clients receive the personal attention they deserve. Although our lawyers have the skill and experience to draft documents for clients’ individual needs.

- Military Justice

Our firm specializes in representing members of all branches of the United States military facing criminal and adverse administrative actions. All of our military attorneys served for years in the United States Army, and Dan Grubb continues to serve as a Major in the United States Army Reserve. Given the intricacies and complex nature of the military justice system, our extensive military experience uniquely qualifies us to assist military members facing disciplinary action. Our attorneys know the military justice system inside and out, and our extensive knowledge of the military and military justice system is invaluable to each of our clients.

Associates

Douglas Blecki
Attorney
Banking and Finance, Business and Industry, Business Formation, Business Law, Commercial Law

Nicole Flannagan
Attorney
Business and Industry, Employment, Litigation

Attorneys

	Mr. Ellis Bennett Attorney Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Business and Industry, Employment, Intellectual Property		Mr. Thomas M. Dunlap Attorney Aerospace Law, Agency and Distributorship, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Appellate Practice
	Mr. Daniel L. Grubb Attorney Administrative Law, Agency and Distributorship, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Appellate Practice		Ms. Christina M. Heischmidt Attorney Advertising, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Appellate Practice, Arbitration, Business and Industry
	Mr. Cliff Holmes Attorney Administrative Law, Appellate Practice, Arbitration, Business Law, Business Litigation		Mr. Nicholas A. Kurtz Attorney Aerospace Law, Agency and Distributorship, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Appellate Practice
	Mr. David Ludwig Attorney Copyright, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Patents, Trademark		Sur Novel Attorney Business Law, Business Litigation, Commercial Law, Commercial Litigation, Copyright
	Mr. Christopher F. Tate Attorney Estate and Trust, Estate Planning, Inheritance Law, Personal Property, Probate		Mr. Jeffrey W. Weaver Attorney Advertising, Aerospace Law, Agency and Distributorship, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Antitrust and Trade Regulation

Representative Clients

· 3 R Consulting Corp
· Advance International
· American Federal
· Anesthesia Group
· Blue Ridge Simulation, Inc.
· Cellgro (Mediatech, Inc.)
· Ceres Nanosciences, LLLP
· Commonwealth Property
· Freedom Energy Corp.
· Griffith Energy
· Hyper Data, Inc.
· Infinity Alliance
· Loudoun Community Free Clinic

· Loudoun Anesthesia Associates
· Management Systems
· Menard's Department Stores
· National Property Management
· Night Vision Systems
· PBCG, Inc.
· Rescue Phonem, Inc.
· Solomen Hess Investments
· Prestancia Management Group
· Rapid Reality
· Red Eagle Limited
· MIZ Engineering