Federal Court Litigation in the Eastern District of Virginia
Troutman Sanders' Eastern District of Virginia Expertise
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Year-in and year-out for more than forty years, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ("EDVA") remains the fastest court in the country, averaging just nine months from initial filing to trial. The EDVA not only moves quickly, it also consistently ranks among the busiest federal courts in the 
nation, attracting some of the most significant civil and criminal litigation in the country, from the famous “Blackberry” patent infringement case (NTP v. RIM) to the prosecution of Zacharias Moussaoui.
The many challenges of the EDVA require legal counsel with significant, first-hand EDVA experience, and for whom the EDVA's pressures and procedures are second nature. The EDVA team at Troutman Sanders has this expertise, gained through years of hands-on, successful experience in hundreds of cases in the EDVA. The Troutman Sanders EDVA team includes litigators in all three of the EDVA's divisions - Alexandria, Richmond and Norfolk - with local knowledge and direct experience practicing before all of the EDVA's district and magistrate judges. Thirteen members of the Troutman Sanders EDVA team are former law clerks to judges in all three divisions of the EDVA, and many team members have been named in Best Lawyers in America, ranked in Chambers USA and recognized as "Super Lawyers" and "Legal Elite" in Virgin
ia.
The Troutman Sanders EDVA team combines the resources and substantive specialization of a big firm the efficiency and individual attention typical of much smaller firms. The firm often represents clients in complex multi-party, multi-issue and/or multi-jurisdictional disputes and is used to working on several fronts simultaneously under the tremendous time pressure imposed by the EDVA. Our lawyers also provide ongoing analysis and commentary on intellectual property issues, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and product liability law. The firm's size and technological sophistication, as well as the breadth and depth of the EDVA team, provide our clients with the resources to meet the demands of any case. Our experience in the EDVA includes specialists in all types of litigation, including Commercial Litigation; Patent, Trademark and other IP disputes; White Collar and Government Investigations; Financial Services Litigation; Labor and Employment Litigation; and Product Liability Litigation.
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